It's what the corporation that owns the platform wants, not the humans watching it. Youtube is a business, and as part of Google it has to make money to justif

It's what the corporation that owns the platform wants, not the humans watching it. Youtube is a business, and as part of Google it has to make money to justify its existence. The algorithm is representative of the promotions Google thinks will maximize views of monetized content which will drive revenue. Unfortunately as in many other areas, quality of content does not necessarily correlate to that content producing the most revenue, so Google is aiming for the sweet spot in the bell curve, which means whatever has the most appeal to the most people... the lowest common denominator.