My god i cant find anything unless i type out an exact name of the video, recommendations under currently watched videos and just in general are the same no matter what. It feels like a lottery when you hope that youtube will bless you with content that you were searching for. Im aware that im ranting but i just cant with it anymore. All they had to do is just leave things how they were and not gut an algorithm that worked just fine before. I recently used bilibili and the contrast is painful. Like WHAT??? A related but not seen before video/thumbnail??? Under a video of the same nature??? What a brilliant idea!!!
YT is def snowballing, and being very active supposedly improves your chances.
I shared the content someone had deleted without warning before dissappearing, it reached 5k views a day, and one day I decided to hide it while I talked with someone who wanted to share it so all content was unified. It died. 80 views a day now.