Poor guy but honestly he's stuck in 2000s, not even in pre-AI 2020s. Comparing yourself to the channels or "low effort" studios is pointless because they win through marketing, not content. There's a thousand, if not a million, losers in this game per one winner who makes a buck and doesn't pay you extra. You're not an exclusive. And no one wants to buy effort really, people are fine with mspaint memes cause everything done properly was just a gatekeeped waste of resources. Good production is akin to a diamond or a traditional japanese craft. People value it because they were told it's a must and a noble attribute. New people see through this and refuse to participate in this culture. There is good production, but it only gets employed in hundreds of millions of views sorts of situations.