For some reason some people are still in denial, but YouTube is turning into cable television. Cable is on it's last legs, and over the last many few years YouTube has become a superpower in entertainment, hosting millions and millions of users. It's so completely and painfully obvious that advertisers from cable television are jumping ship and swimming to YouTube for salvation. Why is YouTube being so censored, with so many things being considered violent or out of their terms of service? Because it looks bad to advertisers. While YouTube used to be a haven for people to be creative, make content and videos that helped build the foundation of what the internet is today, it is now a dying medium where you don't make videos for fun, you make them for profit. It's not as if YouTube should be hyped to be such a pillar of the internet, I would say places like newgrounds and various imageboards contributed more to culture, but YouTube led the late 2000s and early 2010s. How YouTube works now explains everything, and we all know it, that's why the trending page is hot garbage and has no interesting content, it's the new popular cable channels. It's why comedian clips and sports games, why makeup and news and music are all pushed so far. That's the new thing, and advertisers want to drive their money grubbing roots into it and censor it so it can be for everyone. YouTube kids existing at all is a testament to that.
Here is the unedited message that appears for the YouTube app when you use an Amazon brand fire stick tv setup, not actually sure the name but I am sure of the following:
Music videos, movies, shows, and news - that is what YouTube is turning into.