> 1990s Transformers cartoons and you'll probably come back realizing the the ugliest dog video is both more interesting and entertaining

I don't know about that. At least a bad cartoon is an original creative work. So many YouTube videos are just recycled low-effort garbage. Not that there isn't great content on YouTube, it just seems like their algorithm promotes some pretty bad stuff. If you visit it in an incognito window it looks like the front of a tabloid.