FYI
After Sept. 18, you’ll no longer be able to send or receive direct messages on YouTube as we focus our efforts on public convo tools (comments, posts, etc).
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Its been more than 1 year since I applied for monetization. My channel has 3,386,554 views and 577 videos. Watch hours in previous 12 months = 114,237 (4,000 needed for review) Subscribers = 14,357 (1,000 needed for review) I have contacted youtube team 1000 times but no luck