Sure, but like 99% of the stuff that's being uploaded every minute to YouTube as you mention isn't getting recommended to pretty much anyone, ever, anyway. The

Sure, but like 99% of the stuff that's being uploaded every minute to YouTube as you mention isn't getting recommended to pretty much anyone, ever, anyway. The vast majority of videos uploaded to YouTube have abysmally small view counts/reach, and the bulk of actual views on the platform come from content regularly being uploaded by a small percentage of the overall user base. Same as pretty much any platform, just at an exponentially increased scale due to how enormous and popular YouTube is. I also believe it's entirely possible for someone (it won't be YouTube, they are too invested/tied into their existing model) to successfully integrate manual curation at scale. All you have to do is monetize the curators, and then reverse the traditional ad model being used on the majority of the web. Just like how people are already driven to go and watch live streams from creators who oftentimes simply serve to be a more active, on-screen role of one of these kinds of curators or "coolhunters" or whatever...it's been shown that people are more than willing to donate via superchats or sign up for additional membership features. So what's stopping a platform from doing more targeted audience-specific advertisements?