So, youtube, right? Where would you host your videos if you had a mind to take them back?
Youtube's value is viewers that will accidentally discover your video. Nobody will watch your videos if you publish them at your own website.
There's only really one set of codecs that works across all devices. Video Player libraries that work really well with features like captions/subtitles, speed controls, automatic resolution shifting are hard to find, much less if you are not technical.
If you want to cater to an audience outside the western world you'll want a video processing pipeline to downscale your videos to lower resolutions.
Ideally you'd want to chunk up the video into something like HLS playlists so navigating around the video wouldn't require someone to wait until the download caught up to the middle of the file... the list goes on.
Video is still hard. The big players make it seem easy, but it's not, in my experience, that simple.
Even if you want to use Youtube, Floatplane or others to expose your content you can still pull users back to your site and own the creator - user relationship.
1) set the iframe width="514" height="289" or smaller that will remove the "Watch on YouTube" link (viewers can still view in fullscreen)
2) add ?modestbranding=1 to the end of the src url, this will also remove the "YouTube" link
Then add your own comments system to your embedded page and monetize how you see fit.
Yeah, stop letting Google dictate your search results! Create your own search engine and own your platform!