Loved your article — very human and covered the important things well. We never had TV let alone You Tube when I was young, but my now 17 year old daughter does, and she did get hooked on some of the YouTubers for a short time. As she is not built like most of her peers, she couldn’t wear the cheap fashionable clothes her friends did and look good. I also refused to pay a lot of money for junk — that included poor quality clothes and I explained that to her. She blamed it on the fact that I did not grow up in America (my family always put quality first). She was embarrassed for a couple of years in Junior High because I refused to buy “Justice” clothes for her, but she soon developed a style of her own and became very much her own person. Thank you for pointing out the environmental cost of all this junk — the amount of trash we generate in clothes and plastic toys is staggering (let alone all the disposable packaging, plates spoons etc.). I am hoping that this next generation comes to their senses and stops all this waste — I am optimistic about this. My daughter now is looking at tiny houses and loves the idea. A step in the right direction.