Not true at all. Hollywood makes hundreds of movies every year and MOST are not remakes, comic book movies, YA adaptations, etc. The problem is, when certain people (such as yourself, I suspect) think "Hollywood" (as in, American cinema), that's all that comes to mind, and all that they fixate on, instead of all the interesting independent films (which are still considered "Hollywood" product) and smaller studio films that DON'T pander to tweens. There's a LOT of great filmmaking coming out of Hollywood these days, but people choose to ignore it in favour of the tired old disproven argument that Hollywood only cranks out mega-budget "crap" (most of which is actually pretty good in its own right).
The problem with these YouTuber "movies" is that they're proving, one after the other, that as big and successful as YouTube is, it's a fad. A fad with a long shelf life, undoubtedly, but a fad all the same. Another generation is already here that will grow up to find it silly and inconsequential, and they'll move on to other things, leaving aging millenials and gen-x'ers as it's main source of views, and as life gets in the way for those people, YouTube's novelty will eventually wear off. It'll be just a big repository of pop culture *beep* that will just be . . . there. These "stars" will be older and will look just pathetic cranking out "funny" videos at the age when most people have settled into respectable careers.
With these YouTube "celebrities" Hollywood is only doing what Hollywood does best: exploiting the flavour of the month. So as repellent as these YouTube stars are to many of us, it makes sense, but the failure rate of these things NEVER CHANGES. Go back a decade, three decades, six or even seven decades and you'll unearth countless movies -- most of them justly forgotten bombs or, at best, screwy one-offs that made money but launched no film careers whatsoever -- that showcased people who were famous for being famous, not for having acting ability of charisma or being in any way suited for movie making. These people went back to the real world very quickly. They were flashes in the pan, despite having MAJOR followings outside of their brief dalliances with Hollywood. YouTubers are no different. The only real difference is their millennial-specific myopia that leads them to think they're any different from the decades worth of "flavours" that came before them simply because their "audience" is larger and more easily obtained thanks to the technology of the times. They're not, and their "legacies" will be somewhat embarrassing and horrendously dated even a short decade from now.
The chicks in this movie may have SAG cards now, as do a few other YouTube "stars", but they won't do them much good in the long run. They're barely doing them any good right now.
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