In the beginning, basically, anyone could start a channel and monetize their content, nowadays you are required to have 4,000 hours watch time and 1, 000 subscribers.
I say that was just a nicer way of saying of if you're not bringing in the money like bigger youtubers were going to make it harder on the smaller ones.
We've seen the backlash from a bigger youtuber who posted a video of a dead body on their channel, but before the backlash, he received money from ad revenue from that same video.
Also, now I'm not just focused on creating only content for youtube, I'm now creating for my own site and facebook page
Overall, I love youtube and hate it.