The Business: Collapse Confirmation By A Conventional Play Channel

From the horse's mouth.

Watch the video. He just confesses it.

What he does not say is that Wizards of the Coast is tanking this like a boss because, being the center of the dominant Network Effect, it is least effected by what it does and most influential on what the Network deals with. All of those scandals? They broke players on the network's periphery, not WOTC. WOTC itself is fine, like it or not.

The other confession? Having to pivot to begging and producing Luxury Goods No One Uses. That's what those products are: books as Funko Pops, never to be used because they cannot be guaranteed to be WOTC-compliant (a problem since 3.X and the introduction of the OGL).

Note the man's tone. He's exasperated. He knows he can't keep this up, and if he has any sense (or someone in his orbit who does) then he knows that what he's shilling is useless crap that's wholly at the whim of discretionary spending- something cratering like the Hindenberg as of this post.

Note that the push to publishing is diminishing in its returns; the collapse is real, and the D&DTubers are going to reflect those declining fortunes until they just (at last) stop.

The sooner the hobby stops being Consumerist and thus stops centering itself on Endless Product Slop and commercial activity, the better.