The only take I have on sponsorships that's fit for public consumption is that I'm glad I have the luxury of not needing to take them. It is a position I adopted on moral grounds, but the kind that one only considers if they're privileged. If I didn't have a variety of good fortunes I would be doing these like anyone else, because the youtube audience has overwhelmingly learned to tune out these godforsaken things and treat them as background radiation.
I mean christ, it could be worse. We'd all rather listen to a fucking magic spoon ad read being delivered through gritted teeth by an unwilling presenter than watch broadcast TV, where every eight minutes you get the same block of ads with loud, unignorable music, pitching literal fraud, elder exploitation, mesothelioma ambulance chasing, etc.
