That’s what I had going. I was fine with supporting the creators that I subscribed to. I have a whitelist on my ad blockers for sites that I support and have decent ads (if it looks like “Ow! My Balls” from Idiocracy, I block them). But, YouTube added WAY too many ads, unskippable ads, ads everywhere. It’s too much, and the creators get less and less. I block everything I can on YouTube now. Some are still getting through, but most of the time I’m good. Still some great creators, and I’m going to start downloading the ones I really want to keep for reference.
This was the way it was for me when I was younger. We didn’t have to do anything. Just have someone around. We’d read comics, play games, do whatever. Just be around each other, doing anything or nothing. Sure, there’d be times we were very active together or go do something. But, it was very cool and fun to just have someone around and hang out for the company…