Tom Scott’s channel will stop six months from now

This articulated response is why I switched to Lemmy. 💜

Because that's what the algorithms that will boost your channel like. Regular once a week videos at least. By taking a break not only do we miss out on shows his show will drop right down in the algorithm and he will lose income

Algorithm likes regular content

Many of them are trying to play an algorithm and retain consistent views to have a semi consistent salary.

You could do the willy nilly approach but a lot of people struggle to manage bulk amounts of short term money long term.

Yes, most who use this approach usually burn themselves out extremely quickly. It's testament to Tom and his content that he has been able to keep this going for 10 years.

yeah, I think most users don't know the schedule their Youtubers seem to be super stressed out about all the time. They click on whatever appears on their timeline.

You might be fine with waiting, but if your food money depended on YT monetization you'd be stressed out as well. Those schedules are not for you the individual viewer. It's a preservation strategy to keep videos in the suggestion algo and bring in enough view counts in a short enough time span such that the revenue is worth the amount of resources, time and effort it takes to produce the videos. Time is of the essence here. 1000 views in a 1 y.o. video will produce a minuscule fraction of the money of 1000 views between the first 2 hours of a video premiere. The worse part is that a single miss can mean the end of a channel. All that effort to be put by the algorithm in front of users is completely lost with a single miss of some form of regular schedule and now the channel is back at square 1 making no money or so little as to not be worth the effort to publish again.