Oh yeah, I do actually agree with most of your points and think this meme is rather counter-productive to just group all of these youtubers and label them all as garbage. IMO some of these, like Lindsay Ellis are rather harmless, and others like Shaun and Philosophy tube seem to be a net positive to me, while I think Vaush is just a COINTELPRO infiltrator. Her video on stoicism is actually my favourite in a while as a mentally ill "treatment resistant" Rome nerd.

On the point about solutions, it's not that I need her to give me some, as I already have some for the issues that I care enough about (and lots of them would break YT TOS lol), and a 40 minute video essay is never gonna be enough to understand enough of a subject to propose new ones anyway. Lots of the things she talks about don't even have "solutions" because they're more philosophical explorations or broad complex things rather than tangible societal issues. But I think it's very easy for the "tangible societal issues" thing to become a kind of "wallowing in smartypantness" for liberals, who love talking about things like police brutality while being oblivious (often not by their own fault) to solutions that have already been provided by people for a very long time. I liked it more when she went "in his seminal work Capital..." on her older videos.

Either way, I still do agree with you (and disagree with the meme posted here) that she's a net positive and nobody should feel bad about watching her. We should actually "yes and" her viewers a bit, a bunch of them might even not be aware of lefter ideas. I do really pettily dislike contrapoints for deleting her old stuff and paywalling all her new content because dollars are expensive, and I'll die on this petty hill.