It's a self-reinforcing cycle, people don't want to support small channels with sloppy editing or rough audio, so eventually those small channels grow large enough that they can hire people to handle aspects they cannot. This quality difference and quantity output increase tends to be favorable to them and YouTube so they get recommended more. In turn viewers also expect this absurd quality and quantity output from not only that channel but all others. Then suddenly they're at 64 people.

I think people would be shocked to find out how many channels are ran by teams of people. It's exceptionally common for people to have an editor or two to manage their social accounts or edit for their YouTube/TikTok due to the demand to have daily/weekly content is so high.

> I think people would be shocked to find out how many channels are ran by teams of people.

Indeed! I was surprised recently when a video creator mentioned the cameraman and producer in the room with them - up to this point I had naively assumed a one-man show, maybe with a video editor.

I'm the other way now; if the channel is monetized and "making money" I assume they have at a bare minimum an editor/clipper; and likely more people onsite.

Even livestreamers/twitch people often have separate editors, they simply don't have the time to livestream AND edit (though there are more and more things that help with that, "edit as you go").

To use one of your examples, Kurzgesagt’s value is as much in the provided information as in the way it is provided.

Unlike many supposedly professional or amateurish YouTube videos that just artificially elongate their introduction by repeat the same three introductory sentences in fifty different ways before finally getting to the 20 words-long point.

> To use one of your examples, Kurzgesagt’s value is as much in the provided information as in the way it is provided.

Couldn't you say that about almost any information? But the goal is to communicate, and that depends as much on how (effectively) the information is presented as on how compelling the raw information is.

About almost any information? Yes and no. Value isn’t absolute. Value is in the eye of beholder.

But when a video is about one specific topic and people start posting timestamps along with it to tell viewers when to start watching, it means that specific content’s form is of no value to them, and many others.

> timestamps

People do that? Especially with Kurzgesagt, I can't remember a portion of their videos I've found to be valueless.

Yes, they do. But usually not for Kurzsegagt.

Kurzgesagt, here, is an example of professional content without much, if any, fluff.

Contrary to lots of content, professional or lot, which relies on artificially increasing it’s without adding any value. For these videos, people often share the timestamps at which the desired information can be found.

YouTube just inserts ads regardless.

My videos sometimes get ads but I get $0.00

Wish they didn't but whatever

> that started out non-professional, now is generated by a large group of people

And usually the quality goes down when that happens because now creating the videos is a business which needs consistent returns which means publishing on a schedule instead of when the creator actually has something worthwhile.