Are you trying to become a YouTube partner to make money off of the content you are making? Don’t worry many of people are in the same boat.
It was get 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours but now, it’s 1000 subscribers and or 4000 watch hours or 10 million shorts views which is kind of crazy.
Also they are demonetizing videos for cussing/ swearing in it. Some are saying within the first 10-15 seconds cannot have cussing but others are saying that you cannot cuss in general due to it will demonetize it which sucks since it’s messing with a lot of people’s lively hoods making it hard for them to make money and some are not making anything at all. Swearing is not all that bad. Not sure why they are cutting into people’s pockets when it’s not effecting anyone really.
The kids have YouTube kids where they have their own videos and the adults and everyone else has regular YouTube. It is no different then the music or movies or TV shows they are watching so I do not see an issue with it. Most parent not all but a lot of them even cusses around the kids so I honestly don’t see a reason for this except they are wanting more power and censorship of things we can and cannot do.
They are also saying trying to get the videos manually reviewed doesn’t work since it still gets demonetized and comes back within minutes and seconds so a bot is doing it.