It's a self-reinforcing cycle, people don't want to support small channels with sloppy editing or rough audio, so eventually those small channels grow large enough that they can hire people to handle aspects they cannot. This quality difference and quantity output increase tends to be favorable to them and YouTube so they get recommended more. In turn viewers also expect this absurd quality and quantity output from not only that channel but all others. Then suddenly they're at 64 people.
I think people would be shocked to find out how many channels are ran by teams of people. It's exceptionally common for people to have an editor or two to manage their social accounts or edit for their YouTube/TikTok due to the demand to have daily/weekly content is so high.
> I think people would be shocked to find out how many channels are ran by teams of people.
Indeed! I was surprised recently when a video creator mentioned the cameraman and producer in the room with them - up to this point I had naively assumed a one-man show, maybe with a video editor.
I'm the other way now; if the channel is monetized and "making money" I assume they have at a bare minimum an editor/clipper; and likely more people onsite.
Even livestreamers/twitch people often have separate editors, they simply don't have the time to livestream AND edit (though there are more and more things that help with that, "edit as you go").
I think people would be shocked to find out how many channels are ran by teams of people. It's exceptionally common for people to have an editor or two to manage their social accounts or edit for their YouTube/TikTok due to the demand to have daily/weekly content is so high.