Tesla youtube "ads" only reach superfans and antifans.
What Tesla needs to do is reach consumers in neither group that can afford their cars, software, and various other products. To convince these folks to consider buying Tesla products. Not to try to convince the loony toons of TSLAQ.
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It is not the job of Tesla customers to do their marketing for them. It not the job of customers to do customer service/communications for them.
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Your perspective is interesting, but...
The Holy Grail of marketing is Word-of-mouth, phraseology that predates cellular phones, not to mention the internet and social media. The most successful brands have almost always had quite small advertising budgets (FWIW 'advertising' is paid promotion. If it is not paid it isn't advertising. Those highly successful brands achieve the most important promotion by their own customers (examples: Airstream, Tesla, Porsche). Then there are those we do not even consider as possibilities that also have that same character (examples: Boeing, SpaceX, Magna (including Magna-Steyr).
Every highly successful brand, repeat EVERY, has a loyal and enthusiastic customer base that promotes the brand, usually without direct compensation, and excuses faults while promoting virtue. In short, they are enthusiasts. Even plumbing fixtures, tools and electrical supplies have that character. Think Snap-On, Moen, even Madison Electric [until they were acquired, perhaps].
I keep posting these things because it is crucial to the prosperity of Tesla that we retail investors understand just how different Tesla is. Tesla DOES NOT follow conventional wisdom. Tesla does not even have dealers, imagine that! Tesla has since inception used very precise and very disciplined cultivation of influencers (early adopters in Marketing context) specifically they have cultivated emerging buyers in a very disciplined way. Young children and young adults all over the world know and admire Tesla. That is where long term loyalty and growth are already being discovered.
Without a doubt I'm influenced by both academic study (My PhD was in Marketing, specifically oriented to women's Islamic banking). That taught me about the role of non-traditional marketing. Please think about how far Tesla has come and is continuing to come just from understanding the modern world.
Frankly there is minimal need to convince the unconvincable. Those people are older and not too likely to buy anyway. The people being convinced are all over the world, including in places Tesla has never been. There is active social media support for Tesla in Brazil, for example, where Tesla is not and probably will not be for some time. less than two years ago I was in Botswana wearing a Tesla T-shirt and was approached by several enthusiastic young people asking me if I had a Tesla. Those stories abound and most of us have them.
Please, please just think about hard core reality. Tesla saves roughly 15% of gross revenues by NOT having dealers and NOT having old-fashioned advertising and promotion. Tesla does NOT pay for product placement, nor even provide test products to press for either TE nor automotive. Tesla does not even have glitzy parties to launch new products. Their releases are, in comparison, boring with not much careful preparation. Geeks loved Battery Day but nobody else understood or cared. Please just think about that. People who mattered, who influence buyers, devoted lots of time and effort to understanding. Everyone else ignored the news or dismissed it as 'vaporware'.
Tesla has such precise and well directed efforts that everyone who does not understand "Word-of-mouth" thinks Tesla is losing sales. That is not true. Tesla is just very, very efficient and rapidly becoming more so.
Even FUD ends out to be not entirely negative since Tesla consistently proves their abilities.
If I seem to be belaboring these points just think of that 15% of Gross sales that Tesla does not spend!
