Youtube’s now decided that anyone under 1000 subscribers and under 4000 hours of watchtime in the past 12 months is now “not eligible for monetisation”.
(Source: https://twitter.com/orhusby/status/953486343010750465)
This is absolute bullshit, for many reasons I shall now list:
Some people depend on YouTube monetisation for a small amount of revenue. Even $20-30 of revenue can mean a student can afford meals for the week or even just contributing to new, better equipment to improve their content and grow their channel.
Another attack on animators. The algorithms on that website cater to videos over 10 minutes long, so animators (and by extent, musicians, ytp creators, etc) will take another blow from the website, since they can’t even monetise the little views they do take in. This can be extremely demotivating, as that small bit of revenue could be the thing that gets them through the week.
Hurting YouTube as a company themselves. This will turn away so many budding creators that would initially be the future of the website as they get turned away for not being all that popular. Existing, popular channels won’t be around forever. Just because AmazingPhil has been been around since 2006, doesn’t mean every single other YouTube channel will.
Here are a few tweets that cover some other stuff:
Emma Blackery - Small Youtube Channels will be discouraged
SaraDerps - What 4000 hours of watchtime means
Aaron R Hale - Small Youtubers aren’t necessarily complaining about the money