not cheap and 'easy to justify' Bruh reread what I had written before.

concerts are easier to justify the price since you can't really pirate that experience

All of the things that you have mentioned can't be acquired for free/no cost like anime. I don't why you're comparing those two since it's completely different.

I don't know anyone who stopped at just youtube.

Again, I had written

Kpop music is free on youtube so that probably makes it easier to cultivate fanbase

I meant that since they provide it for free on youtube, that works really well as marketing. I didn't say that people would be just satisfied with it.

Was speaking only about SEA in my example.