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YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money (techcrunch.com)
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[-] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 hour ago

Reminds me of that woman who made science videos on both YouTube and Pornhub and she makes more money on Pornhub.

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 4 points 35 minutes ago

If I'm remembering correctly it was more money per view on pornhub but she had significantly more views on YouTube so the total amount per platform was still significantly in YouTube favor.

Still wild that a porn site theoretically pays better than Google.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

That is actually interesting to know. Makes a person wonder what is the demographic watching the videos and why.

[-] Flower@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 hour ago

The end result is that channels will just post twice as much slop to get to those hours and actually human creators give up, meaning YouTube becomes even more sloppified.

[-] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 hour ago

As Google intended.

[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 hours ago

Then they removed their ads from all channels below 8,000 hours, right?... Right?!

[-] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 hour ago

No, AFAIK they still push ads on you whether you're monetized or not.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

Why I just push Patreon or another platform fuck trying to earn money through YouTube that worthless.

[-] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 31 minutes ago

There is peertube as well, but it lacks monetization. And Patreon is not the answer because not many will bother paying each creator separately (it at all). To me subscription sounds like an ideal solution, but of course, not YouTube.

[-] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, this unfortunately

Honestly that’s why I support YouTube creators on patreon and subscribe star

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago

I’m sure this will result in much less stupid useless shit on YouTube.

[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

But stupid useless shit is also the most popular stuff on YT! 😔

this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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