After watching Matpat’s video on the youtube algorithm as described by google’s research report, it honestly makes Youtube sound like the shallowest most anti-creator place in the universe.
The main one for me, the system actively discourages you from trying new things once you’ve found your meal ticket, by having your uploads become blocked from the feeds of your subscribers if they miss a few of your videos.
Also you need to be able to upload every day, and the videos that get preferential treatment need to be long and promote extended amounts of watchtime. Meaning the system sounds designed to encourage lazy rushed worked that never experiments.