“I donate to patreons of creators I like so I refuse to watch ads”
“Okay. So you found the Patreon of the random dude who recorded himself swapping out a bathtub spout and made the single most useful video in human history?”
“I donate to patreons of creators I like so I refuse to watch ads”
“Also, I assume you only have a few in rotation. Does that mean you only watch videos by four or five creators and space them out?”
“I donate to patreons of creators I like so I refuse to watch ads”
It is no different than “If the game is worth buying, I’ll buy it” back in the day. It is people who feel the need to ethically justify their piracy making up random and nonsensical conditions, that are often refuted by the creators themselves, as to why they can’t even be bothered to alt tab out of a game to fast forward through learning that hello fresh have DISRUPTED tv dinners.