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Trusting YouTube and TikTok over... Hmmm, I don't know, the US census, US department of Labor, dozens of scholarly studies, hundreds of reputable modern American sociologists, anthropologists, and other educated people who've come to a general consensus, seems like a bad start to form an educated opinion.
The average human is sorrowfully terrible at understanding scale. "It's not just a few people, it's many" is a vague statement. What is many? Compared to what? "Almost 500 THOUSAND cases of cholera were reported last year!! Half a million people!! It's going to kill us all!!" Yeah, but that's 0.0000625% of humans. More than twice that many people die from accidents while playing sports for recreation. It doesn't mean we don't help people with cholera, and it doesn't mean we ban sports globally; to use that as an example of a greater issue is just disingenuous or ignorant.
"Many" doesn't mean most, it doesn't even mean a considerable percentage. Many could just as easily be an insignificant percentage.