It's YouTube. As much as everyone wants to think viewers are all dumb, a good chunk of those who watch his videos will have individualism and make their own minds up about important things. Good parenting of children is far more important than giving up all responsibility to YouTube content creators to bring up your children. That is the one thing I cannot get behind when it comes out in crazy force just because someone has a shit load of subscribers (the think of the children argument).
He doesn't have any real power, as in legislation, or over laws or by being an actual educational force. As in, he's not a school teacher or part of an educational institute. It's low-ball humour/entertainment. If the guys channel had started as something educational then gone into stupid jokes/shock humour, okay, it's misleading an audience. It hasn't though, it's always been pretty shit. IMO more a case of the perfect storm, right guy, right timing (very early YT days), and early day shock/meme humour leading to a stupid amount of subscriptions.