The Verge: Quitting YouTube, and more specifically the confessional vlog, has become a genre of video itself. It’s such a trite ploy, and at this point it has become fodder for parody. Casey Neistat and PewDiePie don’t have the problems of a middle-class YouTuber, those with a few hundred thousand subscribers, who find themselves simultaneously famous and broke. “YouTube can be a bit of a treadmill.”