RE: 3000 Subscribers On YouTube (Still Not Monetized After 8 Months)
I think alot of times the bigger creators with more notoriety tend to be the ones to push the limits. I think partly because they know they can get away with more, shit Youtube was putting a bunch of money into a logan paul movie so I think he kinda gets a big head and thinks I am Youtube essentially I can do whatever the fuck I want. I also think these guys because they create so much content and have such a large subscriber base they always seem to feel the need to do something bigger, crazier, push the limits, etc.
I think every site, program, etc starts off really generous to users to build a userbase and over time as they need individuals like us less and less things become less generous. I come from the world of affiliate marketing so for example Netflix in their early days offered nearly $25 for a signup with no credit card required. over time as they became more of a household name and didn't need people to bring awareness that commission droped and dropped and dropped and was eventually cancelled for all but a few high dollar affiliates. AMazon has recently cut the commission on their affiliate program, Ali Express from from a 30 day cookie to a 24 hour cookie to a session based cookie. I think it makes sense as Youtube becomes flooded with creators and wants to have more control over what people are putting up and what advertisers videos are being displayed on things like this are bound to happen.
While 1,000 minutes of watchtime or whatever it was was enough to deter a lot of content reposters and scammers at the end of the day its not a huge bar to reach. If someone investes the time in developing 1000 subscribers and all that watch time they are going to be really hesitant to post some nonsense that's going to cause them to lose monetization.
Ultimatly at teh end of the day big companies care about themselves and protecting their brand and reputation comes first and foremost over people like you and me making money. Its their platform we can either play by their rules or go away is what it really boils down to. Not to say I don't have the same frustrations heck my monetization went from like 4500 a month to 1200 a month, I'm not happy about it but to some extent it is what it is
It could take me years to get 1K subscribers, my channel grows so slow I question what I am doing wrong
Some people could build that up in a week or two. Sometimes one viral or popular video could build that up in a couple days. I'm not saying its easy but if your making interesting content it shouldn't take you years to get there.
I do my interesting content, just because someone isn't into it, doesn't mean its not interesting
There's nothing wrong with a passion project and working on something that you enjoy and/or something for a small audience of people pasionate about what your passionate about but if you want to get ahead of make money or grow a Yotuube audience other people finding your content interesting is goign to be a requirement for that.
So I just checked out your YOutube Channel, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's actually pretty good, you got decent thumbnails, seems like your talking about pretty interesting topics etc. Just keep at it it takes a while to build a following. One thing I really like is your being very authentic and sharing about ADD and autism and stuff, that's the type of stuff other people can relate to and sometimes those videos really pick up steem for that reason.
The only minor suggestion I can think of is maybe try to refine what your videos are about? Are you a vlog? Are you going to talk about autism? Basically a focus so people who come to your channel know to expect a certain type of content but I actually like what your doign, just stick with it it takes time
I do mental health vlogs ( I count mental disabilities under mental health) comedy vlogs, and I add something extra to give me more time to brain storm what I wanna talk about. And I do it in a pattern, mental health, comedy, extra and it repeats.