With more young adults turning to YouTube for up-to-date news, this development raises questions about their news usage patterns and, more precisely, their perception of News-YouTubers as a crucial source for opinion-forming. Drawing on concepts of social media information behavior and the heuristic-systematic model, this study provides initial insights into the role of YouTube and especially News-YouTubers in young adults’ involvement with the news. Taking their general interest and information behavior in their daily lives into account, we identified high- and low-involved news users based on qualitative interviews with German-speaking young adults. While both types of news users appreciate News-YouTubers for similar reasons - namely, comprehension, entertainment, and identification - they differ in their opinion-forming processes. Those highly involved in news use News-YouTubers solely to support opinion formation, whereas those with low involvement tend to heuristically process and adopt News-YouTubers’ perceptions and opinions. We conclude that low-involved users not only perceive that news-finds-me but also opinion-finds-me.