Subscriber count, view count (neither of which is impressive), and being "big among people who read wikipedia" don't make that channel a higher quality source than any armchair general you can encounter at a bar.

Even by Youtube standards, the linked video isn't very good compared to channels like Perun. There's now a terrible number of channels reading off top 3 Google search results with the pathos of an expert.

The argument is that YouTube rewards what hivemind thinks is interesting and not what's correct or accurate.

Sargon of Akkad has 900k subscribers and according to the dude EU is two years away from collapse and open racial war because of immigration and the left since at least 2012 but none of that has realized. But a lot of people out there like his takes so he has subscribers.