All these are influenced by several factors like device played on, the location of the viewer, ad inventory, how many ads there are on a video, how many people skip the ads, ad engagement etc.
It is foolish and unrewarding to spend time arguing with people who are regular consumers of gossip.
In fact I have had such a terrible time with Youtube constantly demonetizing my channel and deleting content that is perfectly family friendly that this is the reason I was pushed to finally create my own place.