it's a couple of poor people in south-east asia making some money on youtube... is that more exploitative and cruel to animals than the meat industry? i don't think so.
False, both are for money - you don't need mass exploitation of animals to feed people - as you rightly point out: "there is a lot of unnecessary suffering in the meat industry. However this is a result of producers competing to offer the lowest prices and the consumer buying the lowest price they can find and being unaware of the suffering of the animals."
How is this different from this kind of videos? It's all about consumer buying the product (watching the videos) and being unaware of the suffering of the animals.
Does anyone know the name for this type of fallacy? Not False Dichotomy but similar?