as anyone has noticed recently of the years youtube is not what it once was a place that people could be themselves and make videos for fun all you needed was a camera or make fun animation or,etc but now i am worried about the state of youtube has gotten bad i mean like even mcjuggernuggets does not upload that much to youtube anymore because he can not make the content he wants to make anymore he said a lot of negative things about the platform and that is the same guy behind the psycho series and all his other series and don't forget a lot of channels were deleted without warning like leafyishere i mean back in the day he would roast youtubers or what you might be called a cyberbully but recently he toned down his content and talked more about the stock market and there is someone else that does not get freedom on the site anymore like rackaracka they are the ones who did the ronald mcdonald videos that are age restricted on youtube but now they are on storyfire created by mcjuggernuggets aka jessie ridgeway but the only difference between youtube and storyfire is that you have to fill out this form to see if you get picked for uploading privileges but on youtube you could just upload right away but he gives uploading privileges to his friends from youtube like kidbehindacamera,larrys lounge,boogie298,etc so they could upload because they are friends with him.he claims it will beat youtube even his dad said i could fail and he should still do youtube as a fallback and still do youtube with the family because he said to him if you come back this is the family channel we all share it so that means he has to share with his parents too so you know they from time to time still do psycho videos because everyone likes those but come on they want to be big on youtube and get lots of attention like kidbehindacamera and angry grandpa did so they are on both platforms i think they just like the watch views going up for the money i think kidbehindacamera and bridgete west might need the money because they have a kid now so to finish this.
i am not sure if storyfire can keep burning or if eventually have the same fate as other sites that compete with youtube if they let everyone upload maybe i could be the first step for replacing youtube.

Youtube isn't dying per say, just nothing atm can challenge it, so they have no reason to improve or make it better for users. Only better for investors and advertisers as that is how they get their money. Until there is a competitor, it will either stagnate, or get even worse.

It's definitely dying but not to the point where it will just disappear. I know a few Youtubers and YouTube groups who have been building their own personal video apps so they could leave YouTube one day, mostly because of the revenue split and restrictions.

But also when you talk about content, YouTube is actually a lot more lenient now, because of the money. You go back and look at old news, and you'll see that YouTube banned a lot more people in the past and were more strict with the rules but once they started making billions, they started becoming hesitant to ban those that were bringing them money.

it just keeps on getting harder to post things on youtube especially because of new policies i mean article 17 an harsh anti piracy law and now age restriction has gotten worse we won't be able to watch videos on third party sites i mean a lot of people have videos on their websites and other third party sites through embed and they won't be able to do that anymore and be forced to login to your google account to watch certain videos i mean the ones that got the yellow dollar sign they wont be able watch videos unless you give them your credit card number or valid id and that's being rolled out over the next two months they said so it is like you can't really do what anymore can't make content for kids because you will lose the feature that helps you get in touch with your audience and get their feedback and as for videos for adults (18+) you really wont be able to see those anymore i mean who wants to use a credit card or state id to watch videos that should be getting traffic because of youtube policies they are slowly digging their own grave people are not going want to stick around anymore and rather check out other sites for their video sharing needs.
i feel youtube is going to loose a lot of creators and viewers if they keep doing this stuff and they will go elsewhere.

As I'm sure many people have already stated, Youtube isn't exactly dying, nothing can go against it at the moment. Once we finally get something that can actually go against Youtube, and there are certainly a few that are getting up there, that will be when Youtube truly dies out.

YouTube will NEVER die out, let's make that clear. No competitor with good intentions will ever be able to even touch the monopoly that Google has upon video sharing. YouTube is in it for the money, and the people/corporations that make it money will never leave it's side. The content creator is just caught in the middle of this.

YouTube has such a large monopoly that it comes pre-installed in most devices because people see it as an absolute necessity - arguably, moreso than Facebook, because although there are people who don't use Facebook, there are very, very few people who don't use YouTube at all. There are plenty of other alternative social medias at the same tier as Facebook, but there is no video sharing site anywhere near YouTube.

Are there user friendly alternatives that exist and are being expanded upon, that content creators should move to instead? Absolutely, and I 100% support them for doing so. But, it will never have the ability to kill YouTube. It will simply be there to "compete" (which isn't a bad thing).

The current state of youtube isn't that concerning to me I mean I can tell it's changed some? but a lot of the channels I watch don't really seem to be much different and thankfully youtube has never really messed with me because well my channel is to small for them to even know of me.