Thank you for the thoughtful comment. Couple things I wanted to mention. You can't really get ahead of make money buying views and subs on Youtube, in all reality it actually harms you not helps you. Maybe in the early days of Youtube that worked but now watch time is really the main factor in ranking and there's not really a good way to fake that. Sure you can buy views but they will be like 10 second views and actually harm your analytics because everyone abandons the video quickly.

In terms of the things you said positive about Steemit ie it costs money to pay for hosting, etc, etc, etc The same is true of Youtube, its their platform, they make the rules. I also think its kind of blown out of proportion that youtube censors people. Some steemit creators censor people as well by flagging content, you can just as easily get on a powerful steemians bad side as you can on youtube, at least with youtube there's some guidance i could make a post about elvis and someone doesn't like elvis and downvotes me.

I find the same complaints people have about youtube i have about this platform its just my peers doing these things instead of a corporation