I can't believe I'm sharing this, but here is 13 year old Tom, vlogging on his youtube channel from his bedroom.
This a video from a channel long since shut down, from the year of our lord 2010.
None of it is my proudest work - but I got better as I got older. I learned skills and made friends, some of whom I still know to this day.
Making these silly videos over time taught me so much about video editing, talking to cameras, and being effective on social media. I failed a lot before I got better. But I had the chance to try. I developed skills that have helped me enormously in adult life.
Had I not been able to make silly videos on youtube - and get motivated/excited about thousands of people watching them - my subsequent life would have certainly looked very different.
Some might argue that would have been for the better, but it would have certainly been for the more boring.