[tontonius]

Well it wouldn't be hard to make the argument that he does, albeit not as programatically as his antagonists.

What his channel feed looks like: https://imgur.com/a/OqCIKlP

[theWheez]

For what it's worth, he seems to be pretty open about that in the video

[tudelo]

And further, even if he is attempting to "manipluate the algorithm" he really is just trying to maximize his views for his content, which is much higher quality content than the average youtube video.

[stcredzero]

One of the best youTube science videos ever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWbpyjJqrU