FYI
After Sept. 18, you’ll no longer be able to send or receive direct messages on YouTube as we focus our efforts on public convo tools (comments, posts, etc).
You can still share what you’re watching w/ others via the Share icon below videos.
More→ https://yt.be/help/9Hns
I use it with a lot of other YouTubers trying to help each other out and all and I do get some spam people in there too but at the same time I don't have access to community tab you need to reach a certain threshold to even get access to it