@demiclauds: To qualify for the Youtube Partnership Program, creators will need 8,000 qualified watch hours (formally 4,000) in 12 months or 20 million qualified shorts views (formally 10 million) in the last 90 days. This change goes live starting February 2027. If you’re looking for a sign to start grinding, now is the time! Best of luck to everyone. What do you think about these new changes? #youtube #youtubenews #youtuber
They’re doing it to combat the ai slop channels that get monetized in less than 3 days
2026-08-11 16:02:10
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Silver Rooster :
I just made it to monetization and I'm most likely not going to have that watch time doubled by February, easy come easy go I guess 😅
2026-08-11 14:25:21
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WC Drum & Sound :
Jokes on them the ai slop will match the requirements before real world creators can and will drive away fresh new creators
2026-08-11 18:30:16
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☆kit☆ :
meanwhile they've tripled advertisements
2026-08-11 09:52:32
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⋆。˚꒰ঌ ᑭEᑎTᗩᒪᒪ ໒꒱˚。⋆ :
I know it’s supposed to combat the AI channels but can they NOT do that while using AI to demonetize other people‘s channels 😭??
2026-08-11 20:19:56
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Kermitussy :
or they could just hire actual people to keep the ai slop off of their platform?? I dont believe for a second they're doing this to drive away ai.
2026-08-12 03:16:11
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@CloudTheFaun on YT! :
its like we literally tried so hard FOR NOTHING 😭
2026-08-11 03:34:55
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Hedgia :
Honestly I love it. Too many people are focused on the making money aspect of content creation instead of the love of creativity. It’s resulted in worse and worse content over the years.
2026-08-11 20:35:13
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RoLynn :
Twitch and YouTube compete to make the market more and more impossible to break into
2026-08-11 07:27:37
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mrwolftheperfected :
Me looking at my YouTube whit 8 watch hours
2026-08-11 12:22:27
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scottdaros :
Animation channels continuing to be trampled 🥲👍
2026-08-11 16:57:55
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Lillie :
"its to combat ai slop" they already meet the requirements, thats WHY theyre a problem. how is doubling that gonna solve anything? maybe hire more REAL WORKERS to monitor/filter those channels than making it harder for content creators to compete with ai.
2026-08-12 13:59:58
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Prince.Q :
it's because they're losing money to ai videos I really wish they would just get rid of the AI channels that way they will get their money back and the people that actually make content will get more money
2026-08-16 10:28:38
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gemitaurr :
like i'm actually crashing out rn because they're making this feel impossible🫠
2026-08-11 16:47:15
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Rezes Pieces YT ᖭི༏ᖫྀ :
like i cant even get 4000g now they want me to get fuckin double
2026-08-12 10:42:52
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Jaylinclips :
I'll still post my vlogs regardless 🤦🏽♂️
2026-08-12 20:17:57
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Dungeon :
as if their platform wasn't already impossible to grow on before smh they really be punishing people for making content nowadays
2026-08-12 06:15:16
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DunceMation :
Bruh, am I not allowed to succeed or something?
2026-08-12 15:22:47
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StarryEyedEm :
There’s gotta be somewhere else folks can go, or at least someone should build something kinder to small creators
2026-08-11 17:51:18
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choji :
welp there go my dream welp I guess I'll be putting fries in the bag now
2026-08-12 02:29:26
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dime games 💚 :
I was so sad seeing that 😭 like I JUST started and the original requirements were daunting
2026-08-11 21:59:45
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Feraskaheal :
I mean it won’t be that much harder cus social media growth is exponential just focus on making better videos everytime essentially the gap between 4k-8k is a lot less than 0-4k cus you’ll have momentum
2026-08-11 19:48:15
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DavidVGP :
YouTube is truly the goat at making the worst and most pointless updates oat
2026-08-11 17:49:38
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wolfxdreamerr :
How do we start our own YouTube style platform? Cause they gotta go 😭
2026-08-11 21:00:24
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Faethyris :
These changes are awful
2026-08-11 13:11:31
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