You have to dig deeper to understand the dynamic. SimplySyrup has been a dumpster fire from day 1. People have been subscribing just to be the first ones to report that she's died of a heart attack.  This drove up her subscriber count - she's now at about 80K - which automatically makes her more visible and draws attention from other cooking channels.  Notice how most of the top level comments are from other cooking channels?  They are virtue signalling by announcing how great her recipes are, how her critics are "haters", etc.  They know most YouTubers are fat fucks, that's who their virtue signalling is for.  "Sara, you're beautiful and don't let the haters say anything else!" => "Please subscribe to my channel!" SimplySyrup gets instantly notified of any top level comment on her videos.  When the comment is a negative one, she smashes that delete button with her sausage fingers and you never see it, because she's sitting in front of her laptop 12+ hours a day (because she's too fat to do anything else).  It's perfect censorship - of the top level comments.  The replies have some shitlording. Very little censorship is coming from anyone other than Sara. All the virtue signalling ("report the bullies!") is just talk. Many of the cooking channels are staffed by thin/healthy people who are as disgusted as we are. But they want a piece of that dumpster fire traffic, so you'd better believe they're going to keep signalling.