Using YouTube comments in order to get ideas for interesting content good or bad?

One of my biggest problems is when I try to do several articles on a single topic it becomes tough for me to think of unique ideas. Unique ideas are important, because they get me excited and this leads to more entertaining content on my part.

One of the things I've been experimenting with is browsing the comments of different YouTube videos in order to find some ideas. Usually I can find a wealth of them and can build entire articles around a single idea if it's good enough.

I always have a wealth of comments because there's a wealth of videos on virtually any topic I want. I even found a way to make it simple and faster to compile all the comments for a given video. There's a tool called YouTubeextras.com. You put in a link for any YouTube video and it collects every single comment (including the relies to certain comments) and organizes it all in a single shot for you. Sometimes I've has thousands of comments to browse through.

If I want I can just collect them, put them in a notepad file and use a notepad to PDF conversion tool to make everything look more presentable. The converter I use for this is usually https://online2pdf.com/convert-text-to-pdf.

I know some will think I'm stealing content, but this isn't what I'm doing. I just use the comments to help me get ideas. If I do see a comment that's thoughtful and interesting I'll use it to build an entire article from, all my own. I feel this helps me to be more effective.

So my question is would people consider this bad or good? Are there other people who brainstorm ideas for content using similar methods? These days good content requires you to be versatile. It can't be done mechanically the way it was in the past. I also believe this particular approach I use works better for blog post or conversational style content. Not content that requires hard research. Please respond with your thoughts.