>>99562943That's because it's become a job for a lot of people. So much of everything above 1,000 views are video essays, reaction videos (or affiliated channels that pay someone to cut up a live stream to edit a reaction supercut), podcasts, or grifter personalities (or worse, the hasan piker types who don't even realize they're basically a Fisher Price "My first revolutionary"). Others in this thread have already stated it's because everything has to be "content" now, and they're right, but to go even further it's because youtubers neglect having a professional career and instead put all their eggs in one basket on a video hosting platform.
Really dive into it and you'll see how fucked it all is. Video essayists and youtube reviewers have to stay relevant and active enough to continue to have ad revenue and keep their patreon alive, so they need to churn out the same cookie-cutter bullshit to not let their audience leave them. Mutahar, KiraTV, The Act Man, Critical Drinker, OperatorDrewski, GManLives, Luke Stephens, ect, will just make video after video about the same bullshit to get their audience to keep coming back. KiraTV has done over 25 videos about The Day Before. Obviously the game was a scam but there's not 25 videos worth of information to talk about. There's a whole section of youtube of just bizarre kid videos that is apparently worth millions. Podcasters just go on other podcasts to expand their brand. It's all business and it sucks. I routinely have to reset my history because I'll click on the wrong video and whoops now my feed is why Starfield is still bad.
It's all fake and gay and I hate it.