Depends on whose problem you're trying to solve. Jeff Geerling probably transcends YouTube. His followers would go with him if he hosted video elsewhere. The va

Depends on whose problem you're trying to solve. Jeff Geerling probably transcends YouTube. His followers would go with him if he hosted video elsewhere. The value of YouTube is it gives the millions of other people trying to be Jeff Geerling the illusion that they too might someday have success like that. It's not like any specific platform created celebrities. People making this kind of content with these kinds of followings existed before. Someone like Bob Vila was the Jeff Geerling of 40 years ago. The difference is then you needed to win the blessing of a television studio. Today, you need to win the lottery of dumb luck to go viral and you still need the blessing of whatever opaque algorithms YouTube uses to surface specific videos. For whatever reason, people with channels feel like they're more likely to do that compared to getting their own television show, presumably because it's at least easier to publish something nobody will watch rather than trying to pirate broadcast your own stream on airwaves you don't have a license for.