a large crypto YouTuber can't make a great income on Steem, then who on earth can?

YouTube earnings comes from advertising. Steem earnings come from inflation and (if you are cashing out, which apparently you are) selling pressure which drives down the price of Steem and hurts everyone's investment. YouTube can therefore afford to pay you merely for having an audience, Steem can not.

Steem earnings need to directed to rewarding activities which directly contribute value back to Steem in order to avoid an inflationary death spiral.

You may be a successful or very successful YouTuber but:

1. Do you recruit your large YouTube audience to join Steem and engage with you on the Steem platform? Can you cite metrics (even estimated) on how many you have recruited, and how many remain active after some period of time?
2. Do you promote Steem as an investment in your YouTube content? Can you cite metrics on net investment over time (again, estimated is fine)?
3. Do you leverage your success as an influencer to promote Steem when making other appearances? How frequently and how effective has this promotion been?
4. Is your Steem content generating large amounts of traffic which in turn drives new user signups and/or investment. If so, what are the metrics on cost per user, attrition, etc. relative to rewards paid out?
   Etc.

If not, then congratulations on your success and I wish you nothing but continued success, but sending a regular paycheck of Steem rewards to you (and others like you; this is not meant to single anyone out) to cash out does not help us.