I think you’re just used to the lemmy(/reddit) crowd. Pretty much everyone I casually know has ads when they show me something on youtube. Every time I ask “Why not use an adblocker?” they reply either “The ads don’t bother me” or “I want to support the content creators”.

Doesn’t make sense to me. I’ll buy some swag or donate to creators I like, but I am not voluntarily watching ads.