Youtube is kinda like Ebay. Ebay used to be a great garage sale / thrift-store place where individuals could sell their stuff, no hassle. Then they started cat

Youtube is kinda like Ebay. Ebay used to be a great garage sale / thrift-store place where individuals could sell their stuff, no hassle. Then they started catering to Ebay stores, and then finally they wanted to become Amazon 2.0, almost pushing individual sellers away. They're now basically geared toward large stores that act and operate like any big amazon store - you're pretty much expected to eat any losses that may come up, and write it off as "cost of doing business". Same with Youtube. Used to be a great place for small individual creators, but now it's basically just a stream of memes and high-production vids that are the equivalent to visual fast-food. Sure, you can still post as a small-timer, but there will be no help, and you're at the mercy of the big companies and their relentless search for copyrighted material. Or if you're not in the creative space, there's still a chance you'll get screwed by arbitrary tripping the controversial content-wire. All that kinda narrows down the scope of what one can create, and thus we see the rise of low-effort content farms . (It's not that there's no good content - there's a ton of good high-quality content, but as we've seen the past years, even the good channels with a decent amount of followers can get demonetized at the drop of a hat)