Maybe that's a good thing, and would cause the balance / dynamic to be different and thus requiring a rework in some form Perhaps it costs real money to submit

Maybe that's a good thing, and would cause the balance / dynamic to be different and thus requiring a rework in some form Perhaps it costs real money to submit each video to these platforms as a means to offset the moderation and rating efforts. Similar to what others have suggested to reduce spam emails. Off the top of my head, requiring money to post videos to these platforms would immediately reduce the sheer huge volume of spam and automated/auto-generated videos. It would also reduce spam from LCOL regions that weaponize their low-value of time in order to game the system. Not only that, but it would solve identity and age verification (as it'd require a credit card).