In a world where the student populace consists largely of habitual and keen users of the internet (also known as netizens), the type of teaching that the mathematics classroom presents needs to be reinvented if it is to remain relevant. Our purpose in this study was to get an idea of how viewers of internet mathematics tutorials perceived the education that was being offered online either in videos designed for internet use, or recordings of a teacher in a classroom. Netizens do not accept the education offerings of social media unquestioningly or naïvely. They judge. They comment. They compare. They are brutally honest. We selected five YouTube videos that complied with our requirements that the YouTube channel had to be free; the presentation had to be mathematically sound; the mathematics topic had to be one that was accessed by at least 50,000 viewers; the channel had to have 250,000 or more subscribers and each video had to have at least 500 comments. The question which we strove to answer is, how are YouTube maths tutorials/teaching perceived by viewers—do they complement or replace the teacher in the classroom? The answer, we found, is that they do both. Classroom teachers did not fare well against these online tutorial presenters.