I Am Steve  🍞

Having the nerve to tell small channels how to react to this change when you're an already established channel, who gained their fame before this change, is disgusting. You've ignored the fact that this is going to make it much harder to get discovered, regardless of your motives

Channels that are below 1k subs are not making the views required to actually even get paid by YouTube. No-one should start YouTube for the money - it's a terrible life choice, and down to luck most of the time. But, if you succeed at it as a hobby, it can become a job.

And you'll find that very few channels hurt by this change did start for the money, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with remaining hopeful that it could one day become a job, or is it a terrible life choice to hope you'll one day be paid for doing something you enjoy?

No. Again, nothing is stopping you from hoping that one day you can live off of YouTube. This change will not stop you from making a living - because literally no-one with less than 1k subs is making a living from YouTube.

Again, the issue is not making a living, it's being noticed so that your channel can grow and see more and more people enjoying your content. You're missing the point here completely and focusing on the money, just like YouTube themselves.

Yeah... You can get noticed without ads. Even if your video has ads, if it is only getting a handful of views it is not getting promoted by YouTube. This is a false idea that every single monetized video somehow is advertised. I wish it were true, but it isn't.

I'm aware that you can, but YouTube itself will not recommended them as often on the site because of the lack of ads. They make less money from ad-less videos so will always promote videos with ads enabled over those without. No monetisation = less ads = less revenue for YouTube

Your video WILL NOT be recommended regardless if it doesn't first have a few thousand views. Focus on getting those views, then you can worry about ad revenue.