I think this movement will have an impact. If not external like laws, then at least they will refuse garbage and teach others how to dump garbage. Effectively shrink market share of bad companies forever.

They like tech, they like tinkering. If they did not like it they would not be watching that channel and probably any other tech or engineering channel. They are mostly young and like thinking and working and that is a great combo. There is something boiling. I was at that stage a few years ago and I was sharing with other kids how to PGP, encrypt, install linux, torrent, use tor and so on. I bet many of these clippies also do that in their circles of friends and family and not in public. Because in public you already have infinite material for learning and if you spammed it they would insult you, but with friends and family who don't know better they will not bully you but appreciate concern, help and knowledge.

Turning their pictures into clippy gives them a sense of unity, propagates the idea so that people like OP would read their manifesto and spread it wider, and if one clippy does something free and open source then others feel obliged to do the same and it is a positive loop if they buy into the community/idea aspect. If they don't do change in their personal life at this stage then I am sure majority of them would do later, it never happens fast but steadily. There is nobody on earth that moved from linux to windows after all. If kids keep propagating piracy and open source and repair at home and stick with it then these bad companies permanently lose customers and earn 1 star reviews. At least I try to rate 1 star whenever I don't like my tech making up problems for me to fix instead of just giving me what I wanted.

Even pewdiepie did linux and open source propaganda. Linux is infinitely more talked about than years ago. To be honest I only moved to linux in 2023 due to channels like Ross. Recent propaganda that linux runs windows games better than windows also has power to get people to rethink. Modern geek or geek-oriented spaces see linux now not as the ultimate fat retard system that crashes every 10 minutes and can't run notepad as something very cool and attractive and a status symbol. There is a reason why everyone who uses arch must brag about it and they made it into a joke. Everyone recommends mint for newbs but I bet everyone who recommends it never tried it, because I recommend it and never ran it but it looks simple enough
Now I understand why each year people say this is the year of linux!!!

I also am very displeased with the modern defaults. When i use my beloved linux i am the normal one, not the windows crowd with FBI rootkit, actual botnet that they pay for