I did forget about the ones that stream video but those do not contain less ads than youtube so I think its safe to say the meme wasnt reference those sites. Also this is just nitpicking, there is no argument between the cost to run a pirating site that hosts links to torrents and youtube therefore it makes sense why youtube would need to run more ads.
There are pirate sites that do video streaming
Neither youtube does, at least piracy sites have to find a way to rip the vids
open source implementation Which is true only for a few sites and many low quality ones
and you forgot that you need to pay money to host the site server and pay for the domain name
I did forget about the ones that stream video but those do not contain less ads than youtube so I think its safe to say the meme wasnt reference those sites. Also this is just nitpicking, there is no argument between the cost to run a pirating site that hosts links to torrents and youtube therefore it makes sense why youtube would need to run more ads.