a few years ago i wrote a script to upload wikipedia articles onto youtube.

it would transcribe the article using a text-to-speech engine, and create a slideshow of the article images. it uploaded 3100 videos across a wide range of topics.

this has allowed me to sort of track youtube's increasing censorship/authoritarian policies over the years and is illuminating. all of these videos were monetized too, so it has also given me a glimpse into demonetization policies. both video deletion and demonetization have become more common over the years.

That's a neat idea. Are many or any of your videos still up? How many views did you get?

I had an idea for a programming YouTube channel where I just read documentation for different programming languages and worked through examples while recording myself. I figured it would let me simultaneously learn and improve and also potentially create material that other people could learn from. Didn't get many views though.

Are many or any of your videos still up?

over 1000

How many views did you get?

avg 500-1000, mots was 200k on 'human sexual activity' 20k on 'cunninglingus' by mainly indians looking for porn, but not knowing where they should search

I wonder if there is a way to determine whether this behavior is generated by an algorithm or if it is curated.

Never mind, either this has been fixed or the video is a hack. I see a "Latest from..." section immediately below the channel in the search results that shows videos from the search term's channel.