In the text “People unfamiliar with cooking are turning too YouTube videos for help”, the Author’s Purpose was to inform the reader of the rising trend of people watching cooking videos on YouTube. The text proves this when it shows how online cooking videos are getting increasingly popular. You can also tell this when the author mentions one of the channels they mention is “Tasty” which has now over 500,000 subscribers. These are people like Will Matson, they watch the videos very frequently.