Most of brainwashing is energetically rewarding. Television is watched by people because they are low on energy and lonely. It is entertaining and educational. At the same time, television and other brainwashing reorients the individual to new ideas and desires. It programs the individual to want new things and to fear new things. For example, people are repeatedly programmed to "go to your doctor" and to trust their doctors. At the same time doctors are manipulated via brainwashing and financial incentives to overly medicate the patients and to stay blind to the consequences of over-medication. This over-medication drives the economy in an unhealthy direction and dumbs people down. In part, overmedication helps brainwashing and makes people more compliant.
Part of the desire to hear the sound of television is natural in humans. And part of it comes with upbringing. The children if given a choice often would avoid excessive information and excessive sound, but that they are typically artificially hooked on television sound by parents and peers. The humans in civilized countries generally feel better when exposed to television or other sounds. Until few years ago, only television and radio provided the sound, so the programs came only from few stations which were under control of the establishment and ultimately by MIC. Starting from about year 2000, internet broadcasts appeared and now more and more people have portable sound devices and a free choose what to listen to. This lessens the brainwashing much. There are now many internet radio stations, and most importantly YouTube channels which are independent of censorship by MIC. The MIC still has some ability to block, prosecute or threaten some of popular channels, but as the number of channels is big and continues to grow, the ability of MIC to restrict these is diminishing quickly. Therefore YouTube at the moment is best medium for delivering forbidden knowledge to free thinking people. The human off-planet colony should take opportunity of this quickly developing broadcasting medium and audience.
Not all people are watching YouTube. These are typically young male gamers, retired people and people who are actively searching for alternative thought and news. For people who are interested in particular topics, such as Disclosure, Contact, Ufology, Lightworkers, Exopolitics, there are hub sites which direct people to the new videos on the topic. Making a channel popular is an art. This art includes retaining the audience and creating excitement. Some people are very talented in that and collect large audiences of millions of viewers.
MIC = military-industrial complex