To help give some guidance on how you might be able to find smaller creators, despite the distinct lack of tools to do so baked into the youtube interface, I figured I’d give you at least a starting point.

• When searching for a topic you’re interested in, set your filters to sort by views and narrow down the date range to last week.
• Once you’ve done that, scroll down a while until you start hitting videos that been up for 2 or more days but have below 100 or so views.
• Since most interactions for content creators happen during the first few hours of any uploaded video, you’ll almost assuredly find a creator with a very low subscriber count.

Mind you needn’t sort by views, you can simply sort by anything and look for videos that haven’t been up long and have very few views. This sorting just helps narrow it down more quickly.

Now, if these are going to be good? I don’t know, but it’s part of the joy of finding someone that you really enjoy.

Hope this helps some of you. Feel free to share if you find one of those gems!