Is the gender pay gap real? Saw Youtubers say that it isn’t especially Pewdiepie.
The Gender Pay Gap is a thing, but it's a nuanced thing.
The current number in the US, I believe, is something like "a straight white able bodied woman makes 84 cents for every straight white able bodied man's dollar."
There are more variables that change this number: race/ethnicity, dsability status, gender presentation, sexuality. For example, in California (after COVID) Latinas earn 42 cents for every dollar a white man earns. There's important nuance here, though, in that this goes for all jobs and all earners. A white male PhD Engineer is compared to a Latina waitress, so these numbers are to be considered in context. The above numbers can be representative of how people of [x] demographic are encouraged/discouraged from particular fields, and how that impacts their overall economic freedom. This is what is called the "Earnings Gap".
That said, even when you control for every variable (education, job title, experience, location, etc.) there is still a pay gap along gender/racial lines in almost every industry. It is almost never as significant as the numbers above, but it still exists. This is the "Wage Gap".
There is other writing on my page related to this, which you can read some of here, here, and here.
Here's an example using somewhat old Data from the UK:
You can see that with the same degree status, age, and experience, male business grads, for example, average 45.1k vs women business grads' average of 36k.