Viability isn't whether they can afford it, sadly. It's whether they consider the negative effects of not doing it to overwhelm the cost of doing it. In this c

Viability isn't whether they can afford it, sadly. It's whether they consider the negative effects of not doing it to overwhelm the cost of doing it. In this case they won't lose much income from a small channel and people will continue to use their service so purely financially it's a sound decision. It's also a dick move to their users but big corporations don't have morals. Just shareholders. Remember both the content creators and consumers aren't their customers. We're just assets for the real customers, the advertisers. Google is the farmer and we're the cattle.