It has been made clear that Google wants to kill independent publishers. If there are sites you love and they have a Patreon or the like you'd better support them before they disappear forever.
@literalgrill God this sucks
Out of morbid curiosity, I tried googling “giant freakin robot google creators event” to try and see the results and the actual article about said event was al the way on the second page. And that’s including the site’s name in the god damn query. Meanwhile, duckduckgo had the link at the very top.