[dncornholio]

YouTube does not care about the audio or video quality itself. It only cares about the numbers of views, likes, etc.

[CM30]

This is true of any platform to be honest. You could be a terrible writer and still do well on sites like Medium or Substack. Be a terrible musician and do well on Spotify or SoundCloud. Be a terrible artist and do well on all sorts of platforms.

Whether people like it or not, the production values involved in a piece of work have only the loosest correlation to whether it'll do well.

[r0fl]

Youtube cares about click through ratio on the thumbnail + % of total video watched more than everything else combined.

[solarkraft]

Quality is pretty subjective. They try to quantify what people like (or rather what people will watch).