I imagine a lot of you are probably familiar with Metatron, but if you aren't he's been on youtube for almost a decade now, making primarily very detailed and well-researched historical videos. Almost 750k subs, and over 800 videos during that time.
Couple days ago, Youtube decided to fully remove all monetization from his channel (his (extremely naive IMO) video on this is here).
Personally, I think it is obvious why this happened. Two weeks ago, he made this video pointing out that the ancient Greeks were, in fact, not actually pro-gay which got over 1 million views. And a week ago he made this other video talking about how the black Cleopatra thing was rubbish and that there were better choices to pick from if they wanted black warrior queens which got over 500k views.
And then his channel suddenly just loses all monetization? Such a strange coincidence!
I agree, but normies are stupid.
"I don't want to move to [alternative site here] because it's full of NAZIs!"
Well, yeah, obviously, because they were the first to get pushed off the platform and had to find (or create) the viable alternatives first.
It's like arresting skateboarders for riding in public then complaining there are too many skateboarders at the skate park they built.
I think it's more like,
"I don't want to move to <alternative site> because I'm a weak and lazy creature of habit and uncomfortable with change, plus I don't really care if someone I agree with gets booted from Youtube so long as I can still watch stuff."
I'm not sure that is the reason. It wouldn't help if Nazi content is proactively served to normies, but more important is the network effect and the fact that the tech of these other sites isn't as good as that of Youtube (for good reason). And people don't juggle various sites, they pick one. Even I don't go to Rumble unless I know exactly what I want to watch (e.g. GG's show).
Even if many creators move to Rumble, Youtube will still have orders of magnitude more creators that they - and we - like.
It's far more about being lazy than stupid.