Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.
good. hopefully this will improve the quality for the first time in 14 years or so. Monetization is essentially synonymous with enshittification. Less monetization -> less enshittification. Less need to put stupid red arrows and bug eyes on your thumbnails. etc. I don’t even care if youtube is just straight taking all the difference. Anything to decrease the number of people who are in it for the money is good.
good. hopefully this will improve the quality for the first time in 14 years or so. Monetization is essentially synonymous with enshittification. Less monetization -> less enshittification. Less need to put stupid red arrows and bug eyes on your thumbnails. etc. I don’t even care if youtube is just straight taking all the difference. Anything to decrease the number of people who are in it for the money is good.
Easy to say if you’re not a creator.
I write, edit, record, and publish everything I create, all by myself.
Devaluing smaller creators is going to mean more AI slop, because more people will be motivated to take shortcuts.
And those who don’t will probably quit. Creating authentic content and growing a channel takes time, and a lot more of it now.
Yes, that was my whole point. I want you to quit if you are trying to make money on youtube.
Patreon, Nebula, even Audible will give you a better cut of the proceeds.
Video slop is even less commercially viable than the audio, pictures, and literature.
Sora got yanked off the market inside a few months due to how badly it burned tokens for video nobody wanted to look at.
At a fraction of the audience
I see a lot of quality. And none of these people, even though a lot of them are pretty damn popular, will be making money anymore.
good