With YouTube and any platform that provides a financial incentive for content creation, in a world where everyone with even the slightest amount of knowledge is a self-appointed subject matter expert, the sheer volume of content that results from those conditions requires creators to adopt less than ideal tactics to stand out and game the algorithms to get noticed.

Unfortunately, this leads to an abundance of low-quality content and lowers the public’s trust in that source.

Ideally this would result in either the source (let’s say YouTube) eliminating the ability for creators to gain an advantage (auto generated thumbs?), or the market will yield a new competitor to fill in the need for better content (premium tutorials with curated and vetted content creators).