YouTube Layoffs Mean That YouTube is Still Losing a Lot of Money (Net Income or Profit Almost Definitely Negative)
DO NOT bother searching the Web (e.g. Google) for 'youtube "net losses" chart' or 'youtube income' or whatever. Google hides this data. It's intentional. It only ever speaks of "revenue" (read: ads), ignoring the rising costs of running YouTube, where videos get bigger over time and old videos pile up, incurring further costs (the 'tail').
Judging by the competition of YouTube, we can expect losses to generally grow over time. YouTube had many layoffs about a year ago.
In more recent years Google defunded many vloggers, set aside the layoffs of staff. So that alone serves to prove the company is thirsty or hungry for profits. YouTube doesn't deliver that and news reports say that TikTok is eating Google's (and Facebook's) lunch. This means that turnaround is not foreseen.
At the moment Google asks "over 25,000 employees in its Platforms and Devices division" to 'resign' or considering resigning. Google euphemises that as "buyout" and employees should take note of what DOGE did to Federal employees; they "have until Feb 20 to apply" because Google has problems. If not enough people 'volunteer' to leave, then Google will announce a very large wave of layoffs again (Google just tries to lower the scale by 'soft layoffs'). █