A little about the recent changes to Youtube Monitization (Patreon)

Hi all. I wanted to get my thoughts out there and hopefully inform those that might not be aware of where Youtube currently stands for monetizing views.

In light of the Logan Paul incident where he showed a real dead body on Youtube they have decided to tighten the rules on who can and cannot be monetized. Now, regardless of whether you were monetized or not, you must have 4,000 hours of views in the last 12 months and at least 1,000 subscribers. If you do not meet that you cannot monetize (they will even revoke it if you previously were but now don't meet the requirements).

Obviously, I do not currently match this and therefore will continue to have no monetization on the channel. This decision by Youtube of course does absolutely nothing to the large channels that tend actually cause these issues and instead only hurts niche channels such as mine. There are many channels to do videos such as "how to fix a blue screen of death" or car repair videos, etc. that have TONS of views but very little subscribers (that's not a channel you typically subscribe to) and now they cannot monetize.

For reasons such as this I don't believe these rules will stay for very long but for now this is the current status. It just doesn't make sense to only support content that drives recurring subscribers.

I'd not have made much money anyway, but it was a goal to strive toward that seemed relatively reachable. This new goal post, if it is not moved again, is a more long term goal for the channel.

Until then however, I will continue to do what I have been doing, painting miniatures and discussing the gaming industry I enjoy so much. Additionally, this really moved the focus even more onto Patrons such as yourself.

So thank you. Thank you for your support, both moral and financial. It will always mean the world to me and I always appreciate it.  You are what drives small channels such as myself.