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nope. the ISPs track torrent downloads is by leeching off of the popular public ones, and checking if any of the peers have IPs that belong to them. not by analyzing each customer's traffic individually.
downloading a video off youtube makes a simple HTTP download which wont trip any ISP alerts. especially since it's a trusted domain like Youtube
Most ISPs don't do that, content owners do then send complaints to the ISP who forwards them to the user. ISPs aren't going to spend money on losing a customer.
I work for an ISP (smaller, not a nationwide company). We genuinely don't care what you use your internet connection for until we get a legal notice and then we do what's required by law.
My ISP (like most ISPs) will just forward nastygrams from the content owners. Usually big companies like NBC or whatever. My ISP is a local setup (XMission in Utah) and only forwards them as a courtesy. They don't actually do anything. It's nice.
YouTube is going to be better than that since it will be https and thus tls encrypted. The only thing your ISP sees is that you transferred something from youtube.