Yes, that has always been true, but that doesn't explain how one channel gets millions of views and another almost identical channel gets almost zero. For instance, look at cocomelon, average 40,000 subs a day...ryantoysreview average 20K subs a day..just 2 examples, yet thousands of other channels with similar content get almost no views. The algo is a kingmaker and often I think that king is a human. Every time I try and make a video outside of my niche, I get almost zero views ...How does it know ...how does it know it is me ? Even if I almost copy the tags and title of a similar popular video ( as an experiment ) it gets no views. Sometimes I think channels are shadowbanned . A few years ago I made a video of the most popular kids toy at christmas, and it got 300 views, while other channels doing the exact same thing got millions of views...keep i mind I have 245,000 subs ! BUT thanks to the bell system, only 3000 clicked the bell so subs are basically useless now. Anyway...just venting.