Youtube last year had a big shake up when advertisers were reducing or quiting them as they were essentially caught fibbing on some numbers. Numbers that were fibbed as a result of trying to manipulate popular but "wrong" viewpoints during the election and before. Reddit has a similiar history if you want to look it up. Because of that a ton of people got reduced payments or found themselves suddenly demonetized for random subjective things supposedly against TOS when not.

Then the added stuff like youtube heroes (look it up creepy), then this year announced openly aggressive curating that will filter search results and outright censor certain content. As a result, now a lot of folks find their video's when posted instantly "under review" or some term I forget. Essentially they can appeal it and in a week or two it gets monetized again, but in the meantime, the huge bulk of views come in the first few days so they end up losing all the proceeds from that.

Then you have outright censorship, you had MAC get demerits for TWO YEAR old video's explaining a bump stock. Likewise gun stuff has been facing after LA a lot of very random take downs and suspending of accounts. They also tend to go in waves of banning accounts with anti feminism/progressivism. A few big names will get tossed in. There will be an uproar and they are reinstated meanwhile a lot of up and coming people with a few million subscribers get lost in the bannings. They can restart and hopefully not get targeted again but they have to restart their following and while they get many back, they also lose a ton too.

Theres a lot of info on it, but I'm supposed to be getting ready for work not posting. I can maybe look up links for more info on it later. On another forum this stuff has spawned a google/youtube alternatives thread.

Oh another example, some folks for their career had google document books they were working on. One was again anti some kind of leftist topic, person is otherwise a somewhat known academic and not some giant right wing guy. Their entire google+ account got locked down with no access because of it's "hate" content.... hadn't even been shared/published yet...