I doubt that is remotely enough to keep YouTube from being a moneysink for google

I agree

Why was it even popular in the first place?

I will say Reddit and lemmy are the only sites where comments genuinely make me laugh sometimes

Any idea who might be launching the ddos attacks?

Was he ever going to get paid

I never liked Brave. I don’t care for the crypto crap they add onto their browser

Far from that probably. But hopefully they will eventually