I did not get introduced to magic by You Tube.
I got introduced to magic by a stage-performance of magic I saw.
Then I googled "Easy Magic Tricks".
Also, that was 6 years ago, so viewing You Tube would swallow up any data pack easily.
So I JUST GOOGLED stuff
"Amazing magic tricks"
"Killer magic tricks"
"Amazing coin magic tricks"
"Amazing card magic tricks"
"Killer levitation tricks"
And so on goes the list...then I realised there are magic books out there. I realised they are better than the cheap 10 page card magic trick books sold on trains (in case that seems unfamiliar to you, you are not an Indian). So I bought two books, Bobo's coin magic and Tom Ogden's Complete Idiot's Guide to Street Magic. And I swear that the latter has loads of stuff for everyone and the advice there is gold, just saying.
AFTER ALL THIS...
I found there are amazing channels on you tube which show amazing magic tutorials (this happened when we bought a wi-fi router).
And after all this I have discovered that the You Tube is a cool place to learn from. Also, there was a video about some trick and I LOVED it. Somehow I found out that the effect was on Paul Zenon's street magic book. So I got that. Therefore You Tube has improved my skills and arensal. It has ENCOURAGED me to buy a lot of books, because every great magician on YT would be like "You have to buy xyz book written by xyz...it is GREAT"...and I would, if not buy, atleast check out the book, check out its reviews.
So basically YT introduced me to this larger platform (it was thru YT that I came here) where it tells you you are not alone, there are HOARDS of magicians out there willing to help.
All these sources of magic are connected, all of them.I really can't look at them separately, because I learned abt YT thru a few books (which did not speak too kindly of YT, nevertheless
) then I got introduced to more books thru YT. See? All's interconnected.