I think the issue isn’t as simple as people think.
Youtube’s Problem is anyone can earn considerable money. But more importantly, EVERYONE could earn acceptable money. For every PDP or That other guy, there are thousands more other people who are racists/stupid/combination that make a living from YouTube. I’ve had a YouTube Adsense account for over a decade but now none of my videos earn anything. I think I’d earn mayb $5-$10 a year for the last 5 years but I EARNED that.
Now they ONLY want PDP / The other guy. It actually says were happy to support racists as long as other racists watch their racist videos and they have lots of racists subscribers.
I think that the death of Vine has caused YT to decide to only pay out the big players.
They will still earn from all videos they display, except now they will only pay you if you have over 1000 subscribers and each subscriber watches 4 hours of video a year. If you are a ‘viner’ who moved over, thats nearly 2400 videos that they have to create for every subscriber to watch once.
It really stinks and I think that there will be more of a movement against this and I think YT may actually change their stance.