I don't believe videos on youtube are a good measure of young folkie activity (they're currently more likely to use TikTok - remember the recent sea shanty craze?). But purely out of curiosity I googled the most traditional Scottish Gaelic music form that immediately sprang to mind: waulking. I don't watch telly but those of you who do will probably already know that I was surprised by a sudden popularity of waulking songs in US media, lol.

So, there are many videos of traditional waulking. There's GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) study material based on the Capercaillie recording from 2000. There are clips from the Highlander tv series, lol, and also from a film Outlaw King. There are, oddly, several young men engaging with the music in both traditional ways, Seán Heely (award winning young USian fiddler) and Dàibhidh Stiùbhard (Irish self-described "traditional" singer), and even two electronic dance tracks, an original by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (English-USian) and a remix by Lone (English).

Doesn't look like a dying tradition uninteresting to young people to me. In fact, the music seems to have outlived its original purpose and achieved a global reach, thanks to the communities who shared their heritage with collectors (a questionable process, of course, but that's a different discussion).