It would have been baffling to me in the past, but I've felt it's pretty clear that YouTube is more interested in catering to mainstream entertainment giants ra

It would have been baffling to me in the past, but I've felt it's pretty clear that YouTube is more interested in catering to mainstream entertainment giants rather than individual content creators. It's baffling they'd even bother with this now. The only reason I can think of why they would introduce this feature is that their algorithm has been backfiring on content creators they are politically aligned with.