If you type in “predator catch” your search results will be a lot of corporate/‘official’ stuff, but next to no indie catches. Oh but you might find a skeeter Jean video without searching the channel name.
You use to be able to discover new channels all the time, now Youtube sucks so hard at search results I have to recommend Rumble because it’s the only platform that actually shows creators content as they intended it to be shown.
What are you talking about? Vigilante YouTubers have notoriously been a detriment to police investigations because of how rarely they actually cooperate with law enforcement.
The predator channels, they gather evidence when talking with them through text messages, and video interactions in their videos are eventually handed to law enforcement and with that, law enforcement may or may not make an arrest.