There's a recent Dan Olson video where he talks about the Screenwave Media takeover of AVGN, and how these companies turn creators into content farms. Donut went hard into sponsored videos & churning out as much low-budget content as possible. They're not worried about viewers, they're making money.

I saw that video, one of Olson's best yet, and I get it: the point is to make money but I can't rationalise the short-sightedness of it all. By the time the channel pays for its own sale, it's a husk of itself. It's worthless. It's not sold as much as it is slaughtered.