YouTube is absolutely not the place for serious content like this. Why is he even using it?
The whole point of a video hosting service is to act as an easy directory for finding videos you like. The fact that the same service happens to host the videos in this case is inconsequential.
Continual seeding to millions of peers is not.
Literally any other site where one can upload videos would be better.
But putting that aside from a person using YT often from incognito mode and similar:
- there is a overlap between "content farm trash" and "entertainment visdeos" what you might seem as "content trash" other might see as "short simple entertainment".
- there is a lot of educational content on YT, sadly it is often not featured that much on a "incognito" front page
- there is a lot of entertainment content with a bit of educational content on it.
- there is even more purely entertainment content on it
- there is questionable kids content on it (but YT explicitly split out YT Kids because it (at least officially) doesn't want kids on the normal YT (kids != teens/young adults)
- there is questionable "content farm trash" it also tries most to "play to algorithm" so it might seem that there is a lot of it when you visit YT in incognito mode/without personalized YT preferences. But it's not what keeps the platform alive.
- there is a lot of TV content on it (at least in some countries) (e.g. a recordings of TV news programs uploaded by the TV channels which produced it).
- there is quite a bit of serious content, discussions, etc. on it sadly mostly demonetized.
- there is a bit of more then just a bit of very very wrong and misleading content on it.
Or in other words YT is a platform for all content, from extremely serious discussions over good entertainment, grate educational material to pointless 5 minute craft videos and ending with conspiracy theories.
You can make that case, but it's hard to beat youtube. It's not just a matter of the amount of content, but also support on settop boxes/devices, quality of playback,etc.
Having said that, I'm starting to go to the effort of building an offline library. To me, the youtube death of a thousand cuts is happening because of their increasingly heinous ads (like google search) and strengthening copyright enforcement (since their position is now in place).
In a place the creator is in full control and isn't funded by advertisers which will pull their funding for anything they dislike.
That's pretty much the nature of publishing content - if you're not independent there's always the tension of your funding source dictating the content.