Being a YouTuber has always been an absolute shit career, citation: literally every YouTuber I've ever heard speak on the subject thinks that. It's shit for wor

Being a YouTuber has always been an absolute shit career, citation: literally every YouTuber I've ever heard speak on the subject thinks that. It's shit for work/life balance, it's shit for stress, your "boss" is nothing but a confluence of automated things that break fucking constantly and make your job harder for no benefit on your part, and if you do have good ideas, it's highly likely some jackoff with a business degree is going to copy your idea, do it with a better thumbnail and post it to a larger audience and crush you in the algorithm. All that to say: I don't think they had inside knowledge. YouTubers quit constantly for very good reasons, most of them are just all the benign ways that YouTube makes itself worse just, all the fucking time. And the site stays around because any serious competitors to YouTube are immediately flooded with low quality, low effort, offensive, or just stolen content that YouTube used to host before that creator was banned. That's what you get when you make an alternative to YouTube: Naturally, the first people in line to sign up are the ones who were too toxic for YouTube, which is a pretty high bar.