What if, and bare with me man I know this is complicated shit, you spread those out a little bit? You know, like it was before Google exterminated independent platforms? I promise you 490 hours of those 500 hours uploaded sits at 3 views for eternity.

YouTube was convenient and free before Google bought it, and that's why we all congregated here. Google then used that power to entrench themselves and now it's YouTube or nothing. If YouTube is too expensive to host, so be it. Let it die. It's the internet, someone will make a better version that's completely free. Peertube already exists and is scalable.