I think it's called vlogging. Like journaling, it can help yo look back at what worked for you and didn't, perhaps one day what didn't work will, when you catch something you missed, before. And there are legitimate other platforms, like PeerTube, but you're not guaranteed views there either, so again, for the love of your hobby.
Maeve
It was doing just fine until Google bought it.
A lot of YT creators are moving to OnlyFans.
YouTube became evil the moment Google got involved.
YouTube says the changes are being introduced to “keep pace with the growth of YouTube, which now sees over 200 billion daily Shorts views and over a billion hours of watch time on TV” every day.
This reminds me of some past employment positions I had with extremely lucrative companies that, upon several employees having pushed and developed their skills to be able to reach production quotas (despite increasing safety hazards), simply raised production standards to avoid paying what was promised (certainly not meeting the threshold of what workers are worth).
In short, if you are a content creator on YouTube, do it for the love of your hobby and make money with your day job.
What United States do has outsized effect everywhere else, and if you object to that, organizing, getting plans A, B, and C seems to be the remedy.
We have to keep posting it.
Unless they're Intel.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-congress-fisa-spy-court-fbi-bill/
And nexstar, door dash, uber, probably instacart.
Almost like it was planned to prop up a noncompetitive business model.
YouTube wasn't created or owned by Google, originally.