My evil senses are tingling.
Hey YouTube, what about asking creators to pay $5 a month to get videos even hosted, you know you'll make a lot of money.
Come on, you know most of your hard drive space is occupied by videos of nobodies that barely gets any views, who gives a 💩 about the community right? They'll complain, at least they'll pay you to complain.
If YouTube asks for $5 a month for people to upload videos, people would actually still pay for it, because there're so many people that want to "make it".