In case you haven't heard, YouTube recently made a statement that they will require channels to have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time in order to make money.
I am simply going to voice how I feel about it. This is not a rant, nor a complaint video, actually hear me out before you comment, actually watch me video before you comment.
People have a reason to be upset about this, different channels made a different amount of money, so just because you were only making 2 cents and you don't care doesn't mean it applies for everyone. This is not just about money, YouTube promotes monetized content, so this change will make it 2x harder for us to get out there.
Imagine being at work, you're a new employee, the boss comes up to you and says "now you must have worked here for 5 months before you can get a check." So that means you have to work FOR FREE for 5 months before you can get paid.
You would quit your job, you don't want to do all that work and not get anything in return, so this may drive some small fries to quit.
I believe this is a response to the Logan Paul incident. Just like how YouTube brought in the 10k rule after the thing with Pewdiepie. If you don't know what Logan Paul did, he went to the suicide woods in Japan and got on tape the body of a man who killed himself and post it on YouTube. It caused a lot fo uproar that YouTube demonetizes innocent content but allows this mess to happen. So if you are upset,mad etc about this change, blame Logan Paul.
Like it or not, people are gonna be upset. If you had a dream, then come to find out its gonna be a lot harder, you would feel discouraged. So its a little insensitive to think people can't have a say in things
At the same time, YouTube is cracking down on channels who steal content, you wouldn't want someone making money off of something you did right. Like with YouTube's 10K rule. A kid stole one of my videos from my Aaliyah Holt channel ( and was stupid enough to tag me on Twitter) because he was "out of ideas"
Because of YouTube's rule, he was prevented from monetizing my content. That is the only reason I didn't report the video, because he wasn't making anything from it. You will be thanking YouTube if your video get stolen and the channel is under the threshold. Had YouTube not had the 10K rule, this kid would of been making money off a video I worked my butt off on.
Its not fair for YouTube to constantly punish small channels for what a big YouTuber does, but in reality, one person can fu*k it up for everyone else. For example when my mom used to work, her lunch break was one hour, then people abused it and it was shorten to 30 mins
In the first place, you should NOT make YouTube your only source of income. Affiliate links, selling merch, Patreon, what ever you have to do, get it done.
One set back I can see is this change will increase the amount of sub for sub, buying subscribers etc. I already had enough of sub for sub people before, but image how many sub for sub people I will be banning from my channel now.
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