No, not in a million years. For clarification:
Youtube has killed off a considerable chunk of earnings for content creators, which is why we have "this video is sponsored by" ads in so many vids as well as merch and patreon. These were all borne out of necessity rather than greed (although for many it's greed). Youtube will randomly demonetize videos for the most ridiculous reasons and appealing it will generally take a week or more which is when the heat for the vid has died down and people have lost interest or watched it, so the revenue is laughable. Their strike and appeal system is a joke and completely broken. I'm not convinced that this
isn't by design.
To make matters worse, Youtube had a 10 minute rule. This meant that you could only get mid-roll ads in your videos if they were over 10 minutes. This meant that you get tons of creators who take a 30 second topic and drone on for 10 minutes so they get that extra revenue from the ads, whilst their vids are generally just waffle. No person demonstrates this better than Scotty Kilmer:
Look at the length of all these videos:
Due to this, people use adblockers, like myself. I still had ads on my mobile devices as I still wanted to support the creators a little bit, but Youtube then decided that the best course of action wasn't to address the problem, but simply make those who aren't adblocking suffer more by doubling the amount of ads pre-vid, and reducing that 10 minute rule to 8 minutes. I've no intention of watching two 30 second ads for a 15 second cat meme thanks.
To that end I've accepted that Youtube is dying and probably won't be around much longer, at least not to the levels it was a few years ago. I've got ad blockers installed on everything and use Youtube Vanced on my phone to get rid of them too, and will happily watch the platform sink to the bottom of the sea where it belongs.
I've said for years that the only reason Youtube exists is because of Google. If someone else had Google's resources and the right attitude, they could probably kill Youtube overnight.
