As someone into amateur "plushtube" videos (AKA, videos of guys recording videos with their plush toys, usually Mario characters are used and comes to mind for me, but stuff like FNAF and Sonic are also popular subjects), the disparity between the videos SML made when he was a kid and the stuff he makes now (both the surface content themselves and also what they "stand for" I guess) will never not be infinitely hilarious to me.
It feels like a perfect analogy for what YouTube became over the years... okay so I disagree with the overall sentiment that "everything on YouTube these days is soulless and about gaming the algorithm and making money" but I still understand that feeling, you know? And SML was technically one of the OGs of the platform as a whole, so just seeing how the content "evolved" is still a pretty good mirror of how a lot of people feel about YouTube.