YouTube sent me an email informing me that they were demonetizing my channel because I haven't been posting any new content. I recently wrote about my decision to quit YouTube, even though I had 5700 subscribers and made some very good side income from affiliate sales. Now most of you know you need 4000 hours of watch time and at least 1000 subscribers to get monetized. People put a ton of emphasis on this when they start a channel, but the truth is that if you don't have tens of thousands of views during the month, what you make from displaying ads during your videos is chump change. My immediate gut reaction was I'd better throw up some kind of content on my now "dead" channel but I quickly checked that feeling. The last thing I wanted to do is get back into the YouTube rat race. The other thing I'm really beginning to dislike is YouTube changing into just another cable TV channel. For example, try and find good, original content that isn't sponsored. I don't care what anyone says,…
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