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
How does it protect the income of the wealthiest creators? Revenues are ad based; if you demonetize my channel, you're losing my ad revenue, so per-capita it ends up being the same thing. I'll not allow ads on my content without monetization. I'll delete my account first.