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Anyone who's been following YouTube knows that YouTube has been getting increasingly harsh on people who relied on YouTube as their sole source of income, but the last year in particular was brutal. After an infamous hit piece by The Times about how ads are showing up next to extremist content (along with PewDiePie going from media darling to problematic shitposter and the whole Elsagate saga), advertisers left YouTube en masse and YouTube's responded by making it harder to monetize videos in general. The Logan Paul "dead body" vlog was the final straw, causing so much backlash everywhere and so many "Why isn't YouTube doing something" posts on social media.
Now, YouTube has required partners to now have 1000 subscribers and 4000 watched hours of content a month. This article outlines the changes pretty well, many of these accounts are at the absolute bottom of YouTube, making under $100 a year in most cases. Furthermore, YouTube claims that humans are going to have to vet all videos from top partners now. In other words, kind of like how it was before YouTube gave everyone partnership where you had to get a lot of views to even consider being looked at.
Due to this, YouTube has sent out most of these partners automated emails telling them their content will be demonetized if they do not meet the threshold within 30 days.
This means that there's been a lot of interesting comments, mainly from smaller accounts. The official blogpost is full of people desperate to sub4sub to try to get 1000, just like the old days of YouTube and surprisingly it's civil.
/r/youtube on the other hand is chimping the fuck out.
There's even the "I'm going to Zippcast" posters:
Twitter isn't happy either:
Now, YouTube has required partners to now have 1000 subscribers and 4000 watched hours of content a month. This article outlines the changes pretty well, many of these accounts are at the absolute bottom of YouTube, making under $100 a year in most cases. Furthermore, YouTube claims that humans are going to have to vet all videos from top partners now. In other words, kind of like how it was before YouTube gave everyone partnership where you had to get a lot of views to even consider being looked at.
Due to this, YouTube has sent out most of these partners automated emails telling them their content will be demonetized if they do not meet the threshold within 30 days.
This means that there's been a lot of interesting comments, mainly from smaller accounts. The official blogpost is full of people desperate to sub4sub to try to get 1000, just like the old days of YouTube and surprisingly it's civil.
/r/youtube on the other hand is chimping the fuck out.
There's even the "I'm going to Zippcast" posters:
Twitter isn't happy either: