I’m guessing this is in reference to a recent YT video about private equity buying up YouTube channels in recent years, mostly in the science and engineering spaces.

Channels publicly acquired by PE:

Task & Purpose, Donut Media, Veritasium, Simple History, Fern, Fireship, Economics Explained, Futurism, Astrum

“Your favorite YouTube channel is (probably) owned by private equity.”

https://youtu.be/hJ-rRXWhElI?si=8h4h6lnbUpBDLiQp

I'm bored, so I'll bite, why would it be? Can you share anything supporting this?

Well, at least open sauce isn't

Technically everything that isn't a public company (ie tradable on the stock market) is private equity although I think you're complaint is about private equity rollups.

Only in the sense that a lot of YouTube channels are taking sponsorship from PE funded startups, and to be honest I just see that a slightly odd form of wealth redistribution.

Someone tell me where to sign up because I'd love to get some funding for a new 3D printer.

Aren’t all birds actually government surveillance drones?