I haven't watched the skit, I ignored it, but I've heard a lot of people talking about.
I agree with most folk. Honestly, people watching stuff on YouTube (like streamers and let's play videos) is no different to people watching Jimmy Kimmel, let alone any other TV show. I have a lot of friends who watch heaps of TV shows like Arrow, The Flash, Game of Thrones, Dare Devil etc. I personally hardly ever watch TV nowadays, because I'm playing video games instead! That's how I choose to use my time, that is what I find entertaining. To tell you the truth, I get easily distracted when watching stuff and I find I need "breaks", as silly as that sounds. Yet I can binge and marathon games. Weird huh?
I don't really watch let's play videos anymore (I used to) but I see nothing wrong with it and really, it's not worth making fun over and I can see why people may be offended. Understandably, the comments that Kimmel calls out are the really dumb ones, because sometimes on the Internet, people really do say some dumb shit. In saying that, there were some very intelligent comments that pretty much shoot down Kimmel, making him look an ignorant tool, but of course Kimmel's show won't show those comments. Can't make fun of those.
I agree with Ugh, I think it's quite wrong that Kimmel will go on about how much someone like Pewdiepie earns through YouTube, but he fails to tell the audience what Pewdiepie does with the money. I guess he doesn't because the answer won't be funny. Furthermore, these streamers who make an income off YouTube, it is a bit of work to make these videos! You've gotta record, edit and upload the videos. People think that's piss easy, but if you're pumping out content on a regular basis, content that's of high quality... it takes a lot of time!
On the flip side, I also agree with Urban - it may sound hypocritical of me to say considering what I just said but just ignore it. Do what you enjoy regardless of what others say, especially when they don't have a clue.
Hater's gon' hate.
