Building a YouTube like website requires friends with deep pockets. YouTube is a globalist funded website who gets free money to push propaganda. The only other website competing against YouTube is Rumble and if you look at their history they are being funded by billionaires and are not yet profitable.

I'd like to see a YouTube zap type website too. Hopefully in the future. I think a better strategy is let users use your site but get the users to host their own videos.