Got less than 1,000 subs? Got less then 4,000 hours of total watch time within 1 year? Want to start your own channel on YouTube? If the answer to ANY of these questions is YES then guess what? YouTube doesn't want to pay you anymore.
Big name YouTubers upload horrifying videos, or upload videos that cause sponsor brands to withdraw their ad campaigns don't get punished but small channels do. Way to go YouTube to stifle potential creativity for the future.
This new rule set to go live on February 20th 2018 is utterly draconian in its very nature but does YouTube care? Does it balls. So save your time and don't bother starting your own channel anymore. It's purely a rich mans club now.
So this is a channel update in which I announce my intention to finish off the series I like which are still ongoing on the channel, then after that I'll only live stream on Twitch and use the YouTube channel as a live stream archive service. SCREW YOUTUBE!!!!!
You can watch me live on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/maskedgeek and follow me on Twitter @MaskedGeek_YT to know when I'll start live streaming.