Turns out everyone likes to watch someone else play a Video Game.

I consider myself a bit of an Apologist for Sword Art Online, but one key detail of it's climax hasn't aged well.

The original Web Novel version of Aincrad was published in 2002 before YouTube existed, but the Anime aired a decade later.  So Kirito saying "there's no fun in watching someone else play a video game" was already being proven wrong.

Honestly I kind of lament how dead the original Let's Play format is.  Live Streams and edited videos about challenge runs are also fun.  But watching people commentate on their casual play through without having to deal with a Live Chat is something I miss.

Live Streams with some Chat interaction re more tolerate when I'm watching someone smaller. But once their Chat has a larger population then some cities it can become an inevitably frustrating distraction.

Still there's lots of fun Casual Gameplay based YT videos being made which I still enjoy.