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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1327151/youtube-announces-monetization-changes-that-make-it-harder-for-new-creators-to-make-mone

New creators applying for YouTube Partner Program (YPP) will need 8,000 qualified watch hours in the last 365 days, or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.

Old requirements for comparison:

1,000 subscribers with 4,000 watch hours in the past year or 10 million Shorts views in the past 90 days.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

I bet part of that is to avoid paying out the ai slop shit channels that they have enabled and welcomed, it's probably trivial for most of them to pump so much slop that they can reach those numbers in a month.

Either that, or they're looking to fully kick out actual humans from trying to join unless they're really determined to wade through the bullshit.