People have become content for channels often without compensation or even consent (customers, bodycam footage, strangers on the street, etc).
There's been a long trend that happened so forcefully that people who tried to stop it were overpowered by apathy. People became the subject of other people's videos. Some people make content of themselves, and that's great, but more and more the subject of the video is not the person creating the video and often it leads to public shaming en masse, jokes, insults, etc and it's toxic to society because no one gets to be better, they just get to be destroyed.
There was a recent case where a woman was using a vibrator under a towel on the beach and was reported to police. What 20 years ago would have been an incident she could recover from, instead she went viral and in the following months killed herself. It took a month for anyone to notice the smell coming from her apartment. What would have previously led to investigations and calls for reforms, her death was largely looked over. A country that posts 988 like a mantra didn't give a damn that their actions had led someone to their death.
I'm all for investigations of convicted murderers and the like, but when I was suggested bodycam footage of a woman in a parking garage who was simply having a breakdown and committing no crimes, I thought something had gone very wrong. People are being preserved in their worst moments and used as entertainment. I don't think this is sustainable. In less harmful contexts, people are harassed on the street by content creators who, even if they succeeded, would have succeeded because of unpaid content created by someone other than themselves. Hopefully, someone out there feels the same.