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Without the exposure and a system that favors bigger YouTubers. Growth is stunted. It's not even the money that's the issue for the smaller guys because we don't make any realistically. it's the Viability of growth.

If anything this is going to increase the amount of s4s

It may well do! But s4s won't help as it also has that 40k minute watched requirement. Completely useless tactic. A sub that don't watch is not a sub worth anything.

True, but isn’t buying views a thing now? Maybe the Philippines can get us to 4k hours watch-time

The likelyhood is buying of views is purely for clicks and not watching the full video. So it's doubtful buying 40k worth of views will help it. Plus there's other metrics on the back end of retention time. All those views with no low retention time will kill your channel too

True. I guess all we can do is suck it up and start/keep playing the game...

Maybe. But YT need to stop firing nukes at the platform when a bigger personality does something stupid. I personally operate out of Twitch and YT. But focus is slowly going more to twitch. And after this. I might not use the platform anymore for my content unless it changes.

I would agree that change is vital because Felix demonstrated how fickle YouTube is being right now...