The specific issue is that youtube is a competitive market, where competition is enforced. Youtube stopped showing people their own subscriptions, and now only shows users whatever the algorithm wants. If the content you make doesn't achieve a high enough "conversion" rate, ie people clicking the thumbnail and watching the video, youtube doesn't just stop promoting it to new viewers, but also doesn't show it to people who have explicitly subscribed to you! This means that you HAVE to play the dumb click bait games or your channel simply dies, no matter how good your content is. It doesn't matter that there is very little overlap between your viewers and Logan Paul's viewers, you are still competing with their conversion rate.

Every single channel that considers themselves "above" clickbait has tried avoiding it and seen how hard youtube punishes them for daring to be different.

Clickbait isn't about getting slightly more revenue, clickbait is about attempting to stay afloat in youtube's absurd machine.

To YouTube's credit, they still offer a reverse-chronological view of the videos from the channels to which you subscribe. It's the only reason I'm still a user.

It's the third or fourth tab down on the tvOS app.

> Youtube stopped showing people their own subscriptions, and now only shows users whatever the algorithm wants.

Do people really not just go to their subscriptions page? I usually start there and only go to recommendations after that.

I click subscriptions, and it's just my subscriptions. Is there some other way that people are not seeing what they subscribe to?

Since they're moves subscriptions to a separate tab and not your default feed years ago, most people just scroll the homepage instead of going to the subscription tab.

Honestly, I prefer it that way. I don't always want to only watch a creator's most recent video. If they have some good videos from years before I clicked subscribe, I'd like youtube to surface those for me.