Something to add to your Google manipulation of YouTube research...

What I've discovered, you'll get a topic where it appears people are looking into 'a truth', they have compelling content, it will be fascinating to watch, they have an air of expert about them. You'll be recommended other channels on a similar theme in your feed, these usually tell a slightly different story or have a different focus that you might also become interested watching. Each channel, though apparently independent, seems clued up on the other content providers and might mention them. They might appear on each others channels, or might later have a spat.

The thing is, I'm now pretty sure it's soap opera. I'm still in the process of study so I don't want to name names. It would appear they're not independent, they are actors employed by Google to push a message. I suspect they work in teams, maybe not geographically, but are promoted by Google on each others videos and will casually plug each other. They'll have patreon accounts and might be doing other things apparently 'for the greater good' that require donations.

The thing is, they wear film quality prosthetics to hide their true identity. I'm pretty sure I've spotted two people playing two different YouTubers, each asking for money in different ways. I think there's nothing stopping one person having say five Youtube accounts, five different personas in masks, and five different patreon accounts. But where are they getting their film quality prosthetics if not from Google?

Admitted quality of prosthetics, note how they do rubbish eyes to pretend they can't do better. They do better every day of the week, just look at your news casters, they are all characters, played by actors, reading scripts.

In the real world, would anyone with teeth like below get a high end job convincing people? Wouldn't they have got their teeth fixed? The truth is, these are dental insets, a distraction so we don't remember the actor's face when it turns up as a different character later...