Regardless of the amount of money changing hands - YouTube appears to be no more than the digital Wild West for creators, whose status on the platform is not protected by any contract other than the Google video platform's Terms of Service (ToS) agreement.
In other words - the creators' status is not protected.
So when YouTube decides, for whatever reason - a creator and their content can easily be gone, with not much legal recourse available to fight back, either.
Or, in the words of a US judge - YouTube's ToS "vested YouTube with significant control of its service, including the ability to remove uploaded content."
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