I’ll chime in with my YITS story.
Years ago, I was visiting my mom and happened to be on YouTube. I came across a Smoky Mountains area video by Yankee in the South. The Smokies have a special place in my family’s hearts and this was back before there was much on YouTube from around there, other than maybe Adam the Woo traveling through. As I was watching the episode, my mom joined me. We were enjoying seeing the location and reminiscing about past trips, so watched another.
We started wondering if Dawn was just camera shy/uncomfortable being filmed or if there was something else going on with her. We watched a few more episodes over the next few days and decided something was definitely different about Dawn and assumed the channel was a brother taking his disabled sister out on little adventures and sharing them on YouTube.
After our visit, my mom and I continued to keep each other updated that a new video was out to watch. Then, gradually, we learned our assumption had been wrong. This was NOT a caring brother trying to give his mentally challenged sister a good time. This was a married couple. Realization of what was really going on hit us hard. This was a lazy, controlling, dimwitted reject of a man who loves to hear himself talk, and he’d married a mentally challenged woman so he would always have someone around he could feel superior to, could boss around, and to do his grunt work like laundry, cleaning, cooking.
We were both disgusted and repelled and neither of us ever watched another video of his. This was years ago, when they both still looked fairly normal and before livestreams and superchats were a thing. More recently, Florida Resident Edits brought them back to my mind, and I was pleased to discover Smoky Mountain Follies. It seems our final assessment was correct and things only got worse with time, including outright scamming viewers and mooching off others.