As per the new update, to be eligible for monetizing your channel will need 4k watch hours in the past 12 months and 1k subs. Explained in detail here: https://goo.gl/mZwMnW . Hope this helps clarify!
YouTube this is going to be hard for me. I've been working my butt off to try and get 10K views. And now you're telling me I have to get 1K subs?! wtf?! please there has to be some way I can get monetized, I'm having enough money issues as it is.