Quite a few youtubers these days really depend on their youtube money, and to be honest, they put a lot of effort and time into their videos, they should be allowed to make money from it, no question.
I would not even care if some of them started youtube just for the money, as long as the content they provide is entertaining and high quality it means they put effort into it and then they should get their money.
But what I hate is when people are really all-in for the money. I see this chage on a big german youtuber (Gronkh) lately.
He has been doing more and more livestream let's plays, which means he has to put less effort into actually making the video, he just streams on twitch and exports to youtube. Then in his streams he, ofc, takes donations and on youtube he mostly has the 30 second non-skippable ads enabled...
It's things like that that piss me off.
I am a youtuber myself, I make tutorials, gaming videos and vlogs and yes, I do have ads on my videos and I can quite use the money it is generating (it's in pocket money range really...) but those non skippable ads are just super annoying, which is one reason I never use them, even though I could make 4 times the money off of them...
It's capitalism at it's finest again, build a monopoly, increase the price (or the ad amount and lenght) and lower the efforts of production...
I ain't got anything more to say...