These numbers are awful and its all true. See this link. As much as I want DTube to succeed, there is no doubt that it's struggling. I have used DTube right from the beginning, mostly for the reason that it is on the Steem blockchain and I've had many issues with YouTube. After DLive left, DTube should be soaring but its not. Videos older than a few months no longer work. I've been sharing links to people with videos that don't work. I am very glad I have a YouTube alternative for all my videos. DTube also appears to upvote the same users time and time again. Check this out.

Over 16 days just an additional 108 accounts upvoted. See that nice brown chunk, that's 1.7% of the upvotes going to the @reseller. No wonder you're happy with DTube.

DTube previously took a 25% beneficiary cut from payouts and redistributed most of it to curators. It was so badly advertised hardly anyone knew about it. I'm not willing to give up on DTube yet but it seriously needs to get its shit together.