I AVOID watching them when the focus is on relationships. I am interested in Sailing.
If i wanted a nice people relationship show I would watch old episodes of MASH or Archie Bunker or something.
I want to either learn from them or simply get a feel for a sailing location.
"Keep Turning Left" by Dylan Winters was one of the latter and i enjoy his videos.
Admitedly, he apparently expected to pay for his travels with the youtube videos, and now he laments that the young bikini boat babe channels make money, and he only gets a few Old Blokes watching.
Admittedly some are good sources of what not to do.
If Larry and Lin Pardey were still sailing, I would watch them.
Is anybody contributing money via Patreon
No. I generally see that as the equivalent of funding "beg-packing".
The exception would be a one time purchase of a compilation of actual info.