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!
Alternatives like Rumble need to improve enough for a people to search for guys like this.
So far, the people that have the most traction are people that built their audiences on YouTube and got them to follow, it's why it's mostly political commentary on there. You don't see the historical or entertainment content to the level you get on YouTube yet.
Yeah the search function on rumble is AIDS. Desperately needs to improve in order to get more normies to stick around.