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
Good question! This does not have any affect on scheduled uploads or features including custom thumbnails and live streams. However, monetization / partner program related features such as Super Chats would not be available.