They did remove it from the search results. It was completely purged. You could still find it if you manually went to the channel. It was also never allowed to run in the trending section. A video with something like 32 million views in 2 days would definitely hit trending.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-06/new-zealand-navy-ship-runs-aground-off-samoa-/104438052
The lady was an ex school teacher apparently.
Yeah, probably true for the post is really about youtube censoring it. Pretty unheard of for a video to have 15 million views a day and not hit trending.