The top channels get all the views because they're the only ones making videos people want to watch, and they're monetized because making such content is really, really expensive.
The problem is that beyond creators with "hollywood-like budgets", even just making 1 good video a week is a full-time job. Most creators are not looking to get rich or get massive returns, they just want to survive and pay rent. Which means any channel of any value has to be able to generate at least few thousand dollars month.
Some of those accounts get a lot of views...
by posting pirated content.
That's an absurd statement.
Every video I've uploaded has gotten some views. Very few videos get zero views.
People forget that historically, Youtube wasn't a place for "content creators", but really just for people to share stuff with friends. Easily 95% of uploaders are not trying to make any money.
While we’re making up statistics, easily 99.9% of viewers are trying to watch content that does.
> People forget that historically, Youtube wasn't a place for "content creators", but really just for people to share stuff with friends.
Utterly useless statement.