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!
True. Well, all you have to do is give them a better rate than YT. You can try to sell ads just like google does. I dunno how hard that is going to be for a competitor to get advertisers. Google used to have a virtual monopoly on the ad business.
The economy of YT is not straight forward, from my perspective. I point that out because I dunno if these huge streamers are loss leaders for them or they make huge profit off. Money comes back into the ecosystem by channels paying for ads -- the very thing that gets them impressions that gets them paid. I have wondered if the entire thing is a multi-level marketing scheme like OF where the primary profits are being provided by the suckers paying for placement/ads.