We've made updates to the YouTube Partner Program to strengthen our community & prevent impersonators + spammers from harming our platform. We understand this affects many channels, but believe it's necessary to protect our creators. For the full updatehttps://goo.gl/T1pvG3
Honestly they don’t. With the big guys they know they’ll earn lots of money, they are allowed to make mistakes and won’t get punished. Small ones just aren’t worth the risk of violating the rules and getting demonetized, why not just delete them all-together? Goodbye @TeamYouTube