hey guys it's Kristin so unfortunately YouTube has decided to change their
partner program this change is going to affect a majority of the youtubers that
are making videos so pretty much what they've decided is if you are a small
youtuber you are not worth paying anymore is pretty much what they're
saying they have set some very high requirements for you to be part of the
Partner Program so like I said if you're a smaller youtuber you are no longer
gonna be able to monetize your videos you're on I'm gonna be eligible that
option won't be there for you I received an email because I do have two channels
one of them is smaller so I am being affected with that smaller Channel and
I'm pretty much just gonna read you what they said the new eligibility
requirements announced today your YouTube channel I am Kristin is no
longer eligible for monetization because it does not meet the new threshold of
four thousand hours of watch time within the past 12 months and one thousand
subscribers as a result your channel will lose access to all monetization
tools and features associated with the YouTube Partner Program On February 20th
2018 unless use the processor presses threshold yr can't talk in the next 30
days so I looked it up and you have to have 240,000 minutes in order to be
eligible and then a thousand subscribers which I feel like sometimes the
subscribers is not as hard as the watch time because if you make like short
little videos your watch time is gonna be a lot shorter if you do longer videos
and people watch the whole thing then it'll be higher but that's a lot if
you're a bigger youtuber then that's no problem obviously but this is not what
we're talking about we're talking about like the little guy I thought that I had
a lot I have like 45,000 minutes or something like that in a 12 month period
which only ends up being like 700 and something hours which is not even
remotely close to the 4,000 so there's no way I'm making that in 30 days
I saw three-quarters of the way to go to even try and get that 4,000 hour
threshold which I feel like is kind of high like that 4,000 hours that's a lot
I don't know why exactly they made this decision I
we feel like some of it has to do with Logan Paul because in the very first
paragraph it says today we are announcing changes to the YouTube
Partner Program while our goal remains to keep the YouTube Partner Program open
to as many channels as possible we recognize we need more safeguards in
place to protect creator revenue across YouTube ecosystem hmm maybe that has
something to do with somebody filming a dead body and you know like they don't
want people advertising on those type of things I just feel like some of this is
because of him this on top of all the other crap that's been going on in 2017
and now going into 2018 honestly YouTube has not been that much fun lately it
like up until 2017 YouTube was really fun a lot of the videos were very more
immature you know there was challenges and like really fun stuff now people is
just it's all just shocking and like they just want to do crazy stuff like
eating Tide Pods you know like they're doing stupid things and I feel like
people have there's particular people that have made these dumb videos or the
direction that YouTube's going in has you know result of these changes so
people like me that do pretty much like all my videos I feel like are very fun
and they're innocent and stuff like that now I'm suffering along with hundreds of
thousands of other people that just want to make videos and it really does take
the wind out of my sail like I don't even really have a desire to make videos
anymore it has nothing to do necessarily with the revenue because I'm not really
making any money off my small channel anyways but it's just the fact that now
I'm they're not even Eunice I'm not even considered a partner like I'm not even
worthy now to be considered a YouTube partner if that's what I think bothers
me is that they're putting a division in saying like if you make us a lot of
money then we're gonna treat you special which Owen side yes I understand that
but on the other side like you can't just have YouTube be for the last ten
years one way and then also and flip a switch and be like yeah we don't care
about you anymore and it's called u-tube like it's not celebrity tube it's not
business to like and that's all YouTube is now is it's just businesses
advertising it's just celebrities posting their music videos like
feel like YouTube is just being used as another platform to show stuff that we
already see on TV that's not what YouTube was created for it was created
for people to present themselves that's why like you know YouTube I hate the
direction that they're going in and I really don't even know what my future is
gonna be here I do have my larger channel so I may keep going with that
one but I really don't know I've even maybe thought about combining
the two again which a year ago I separated them out so I would have like
a how to channel and then a vlog channel but I'm really now I don't know with all
this maybe I'll combine them back together because my other one has like a
higher subscriber count I really don't know what I'm gonna do but I'm curious
on what you guys think about this huge change because I'm assuming a majority
of the people that watch my channel you know are smaller youtubers so you're all
gonna be affected by this which really really sucks but yet so just leave me
comments below but anyways I literally just found out like 20 minutes ago and I
just instantly was like I I want to make a video about this I'm gonna put this
out there I'm sure there's gonna be tons of these videos going around but I I'm
so frustrated with YouTube like what are you doing you are going down the wrong
path and I really can see this turning really bad for them because you know the
creators could be like you know what screw you I'm leaving and they'll just
drop like flies all it takes is for a couple big youtubers to say I'm done
with this crap and and then just leave and then it'll just be like a snowball
effect and everyone will be gone and then guess what YouTube you're gonna be
screwed so we'll see how it goes I may post more videos like as more
information comes out but anyways if you guys like this video give me a thumbs up
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