@j @PurpCat @beardalaxy @s8n
Nobody has the resources to keep YouTube going. Doesn't help that the platform is a mess. Everybody complains how much disk space the video content uploaded to YouTube costs, but at the same time YT offers a shitload of codecs and encode qualities for video and audio.

Streaming on YT is probably a disaster for them. Everything gets re-encoded several times over. You get one realtime transcode to h264 during streaming, and then once finished it gets reencoded again to h264, then to vp9, and maybe even av1. With resolutions from 1080p down to 144p.
YouTube's inefficiency drives me up the walls every time I think about it. If you want to see me rage, just mention "YouTube codecs". Heck, just mention YouTube...