>I'm not defending Algorithms but manual curation doesn't scale. There are tons of employees at YouTube. A lot of moderators as well. Each one of them could ea

>I'm not defending Algorithms but manual curation doesn't scale. There are tons of employees at YouTube. A lot of moderators as well. Each one of them could easily discover tons of content within YouTube to publish on personal pick pages on the site. YouTube chooses to only feature a handful of creators at a time because that protects revenue streams, not because content moderation can't scale. People would literally jump to curate content for free on YT as well, as many playlists are made every second by users. I'd love to see a real honest stat on how views are distributed across YT content, I'm pretty sure the relatively few items featured on their front page and trending/sponsored playlists get the lion share of all views annually, and everything else suffers in silence (relatively).