I don't doubt that is true, at the beginning, but I'm betting that eventually one would stop crying when getting punched in the face if the crying was the cause of the punching.
Last time I checked neither of those have much of an audience and they aren't competitive in any way with the features of Youtube. Alt-tech or even just alternate sites don't know how to attract people to their platform without people forgetting about them or mainstream sources labeling them as a hate site.