We all know the "nobody has watched this video in ten years, login at least once or it'll be yeeted" email is coming, someday.

YT would have to start declining in growth pretty substantially for that to be the case. All the 360p video from 2010-2015 probably doesn't take up even 1% of the storage new videos added in 2025.

True, it's more likely to be aimed at stemming the tide of 4k video that nobody watches - but luckily they're worth more than Disney right now so we don't have to confront that ... yet.