Nicks Garage 383 build

I suppose you are correct. Nick probably makes more money from YouTube than he does from engine building so maybe posturing for YouTube clicks is what it is all about now.
He's got around 65 million views in 8 years that's around 300-400 thousand dollars American before taxes, even if most of that's from the last 4 ish years that's still less than $100 thousands a year. Not bad but nothing crazy, that video only has 26k views so far probably not even making a couple $200 so far even if the views double that's a fair bit of effort to make $300-500 dollars.