If you're a smaller channel, keep pressing on. All of your favorite channels were small channels in the beginning. Money should be the LAST thing on your mind. Do it because you want to, not because you have to. #YouTubePartnerProgram
Exactly. I don't get how some of these larger channels are okay with YouTube screwing us over. I've been doing this on my current channel for six years and total for over 10, and I still don't have a following.