Linus maintains that creators must actively compete for viewer interest because the platform prioritizes individual viewer preferences over creator content.

“When you log on to YouTube, YouTube goes, "Ooh, a juicy new viewer. What will they watch?" and it goes and it it finds things from its content library and it and it serves it to them. It feeds them.”

The host observes that recent changes to the YouTube algorithm have negatively impacted the podcast's channel performance, necessitating a potential move to a new channel.

“the change that happened in febru well happened in in January and February we've now noticed is pretty heavily impacted the channel so I'm probably going to have to move the podcast to a different Channel”