With the advent of YouTube now working with the ADL and the European Union's 'No Hate Spech' organization to try and stamp out dissident views on the internet, increasingly people are beginning to realize that YouTube is on the way out and must be replaced by more innovative solutions.
Just yesterday on August 1, 2017, Professor Jordan B Peterson's account with over 300,000 subscribers was closed to him, without a specific violation of a YouTube policy being cited. Only after a large Twitter backlash was Professor Peterson's account reinstated, but quite obviously, considering the tone and content of Jordan Peterson's work, it seems that anything to the left of Karl Marx will now be considered hate-speech by the once renowned and loved platform.
Many people are considering what can be made in the ashes of YouTube. Luckily, there is a solid precedent for the powers that be forcing the internet to innovate, and then something beautiful and harder to kill being made in the place of the product that was killed. A good example of this is Napster, which was destroyed in a move by the Hollywood recording industries. However, out of the ashes of the death of Napster came the Torrent protocol which the movie and recording industries still haven't been able to slow down via its key innovation of being decentralized. I believe it's highly likely something similar will happen with the killing off of YouTube by similar players.
Already people are congregating around this idea and beginning to envision innovative models that leave behind the dying method of pay-for-click advertising. What will be created in time? Only the collective genius and talent of the internet can know for sure!