Jared I know, late response, just wanted to set the record straight.
YouTube isn't going anywhere. People have been using it for nearly 15 years and it's made it through a lot of trouble. Most of the problems it has today are because of pressure from advertisers or from copyright issues. It's a wonder that people are still able to make money on it today after nearly losing the $1,000,000,000 lawsuit it had with Viacom. Any rival website will face these massive hurdles and without the help of a massive parent company like Google, so no other website will be as stable as YouTube.
The demonetization issue is another necessary evil. MSM has painted YouTube in a bad light and put advertisers in a situation where they have to pull away from YouTube to save face, and then YouTube has to appease the advertisers by promising not to show their ads on controversial videos. If it didn't pull ads from some of it's videos then no one would be able to make money. YouTube would like to be able to pay all of it's creators and is setting up ways to let you support creators directly. The current "Adpocolypse" will fade with time.
TLDR; YouTube isn't corrupt, it's just under a lot of pressure. It's going to stick around because no one else can handle the trouble of being a video hosting site.
