Youtubers Gaining Political Prominence

For the past few years, we've been seeing youtubers using their platform to give a voice to 3rd parties, flyover country, cultural differences, etc. People like Dave Rubin even have had political players such as Gary Johnson, Roseanne Barr and even recently John Kasich. Ben Shapiro gets requests to run for an office all the time. And just now, I saw Styxhexenhammer666 is going to be a write-in candidate for governor of Vermont:

While he certainly doesn't look like he just stepped off of Wall Street, he's got some pretty good ideas. I don't believe that he actually thinks he has a shot at it, but maybe his ideas will reverberate enough in his state to initiate some productive change. He certainly has enough of a following to make some noise in his state at almost a 1/4 million followers. 

So, are we seeing a rise of a new system that people can gain access to public attention and therefore votes? Do you think other youtubers will follow suit at some point? Would you be willing to vote for somebody from that "sphere"?