Oh I'm sure there is, but dealing with all the awfulness is enough to make me not bother. Those stupid faces people pull in their thumbnails actually have quite a strong repellent effect on me (yes, I've got clickbait remover installed, yes I also use Vinegar because the YouTube player is deliberately designed for mis-clicks). The whole thing is just Idiocracy and I end up angry at the sheer stupidity and lack of dignity of the human race.
What I've been doing for 3 or so years, which works great for me, is have a Firefox container just for YouTube with cookies disabled, ublock origin, subscribe to these channels via RSS, and crucially don't discover content via YouTube's own discovery.
