 What's up guys take down here with another video for you this video as the title suggests is Going to be me talking about the new YouTube policy changes, which I should have made this video Maybe a little bit sooner. I'll explain why I didn't in a second and What it's going to be doing to small youtubers and what it's going to be doing to my channel So this is just a small youtubers perspective of it The reason I didn't make it whenever it was announced is because I wanted to see Kind of where people what people thought of it. I want to get my Facts right on certain things I wanted to understand where people are coming from and I wanted to know Kind of sit down to think of where I want my channel to go from here on out and I honestly I'm excited for the future of my channel because of these new policies The reason I am making this video is because I have seen so many people in Facebook groups in reddit groups YouTube videos on their comments Complaining about the new policy changes, but I have yet to see anybody share their video in these Facebook groups or anywhere From a small youtubers perspective. I haven't seen any small youtubers put out videos I'm sure there is small youtubers talking about this on their channel But I have yet to watch any of them. I haven't seen any of them in Facebook feeds or anything like that So I decided to make my own today And kind of get my thoughts out there and let people know as a small youtuber what I think of the situation And that's what I'm doing. So if you haven't heard recently YouTube changed their policy where you need 1,000 total subscribers and 4,000 total watch hours, which does seem like a lot in Reality is not compared to what it was for the past couple years, which was nothing It is substantial and I know it's gonna be discouraging and from my what I read in comments on Facebook groups and reddit groups There's quite a few small youtubers leaving the platform because they don't see their channel growing or they don't see it's worth it And it's discouraging to a bot trust me. I Was discouraged too, but now going forward. I know exactly what I need to do and I'm more motivated now Then I ever have been To make my channel what I believe it needs to be and what I believe it can be so a Lot of small youtubers are hating on it Recently I've seen a few big youtubers talk about it on their channel Most notably would be PewDiePie. I watched that a couple days ago Three weeks. So he made the video saying why he agrees with these changes because Let's face it YouTube over the past few years has been swamped with bad actors and YouTube actually states that too But they've been swamped with bad actors when I say bad actors. I don't mean like a youtuber is a bad actor I mean the channels that have copyright music copyright TV shows Movies and they're just playing them for free To get the views to get the ad revenue and YouTube wanted to put a stop to it. I've been wanting them to do this for years They finally have the second thing YouTube has been doing is they're gonna have 10,000 people in Offices or maybe they'll have them work at home Watching YouTube videos making sure the quality is where it needs to be and by the end of 2018 They're gonna have 10,000 people Dedicated to that. So it's not gonna be a machine anymore, which I know in 2017. It was a machine kind of doing that and They could do a lot of bad choices and the machine did do that. It was the ad apocalypse I know PewDiePie did cause that he did recently apologized for that I'm not sure if he did before but he did in his last video as well And it sucked as a youtuber because It was a machine doing it. It was the algorithm. It wasn't an actual person watching the videos So a lot of people were frustrated with that But you don't have to worry because YouTube is putting actual people on the line and the reason for their reason for them doing that is in parts with the Logan Paul Logan Paul conspiracy Not really conspiracy, but what happened with Logan Paul early January? And they don't want it to happen again So they made these changes. It is discouraging. I was extremely discouraged I didn't know what I was gonna do going forward on my channel, but It has motivated me because I've been trying my best to put a better content. I've been trying to plan better I've been trying to think of what people want to see that I want to make because at the end of the day If you're a youtuber if you're making videos if you're not excited and you don't show your enthusiasm enthusiasm in your videos If you're not interested in the videos you are making your viewers aren't gonna be interested in you. So I've been getting better. I've been trying to do courses and I'm getting into courses to make my content a hell of a lot better So that is my plans for the future, but there's so many people complaining with YouTube's Doing and just giving up so my word of advice to you coming from a small youtuber Which somebody who's trying to do it themselves don't give up prove YouTube wrong They want this platform to be basically for people that depend on the revenue They're the ones that they want to give the revenue to I would like to be there someday Hopefully I'm not making any plans on it. I'm still keeping my nine to five for now gonna plan my future I have a whole list of stuff I want to try to do in 2018 not only for the channel But for myself school wise job wise living on my own wise Which that will all better the channel as well but Don't give up if you're a small youtuber don't give up because it's really sad to see so many people leaving and The way I think of it when all these small youtubers leave when the big youtubers years down the line Leave because they've done everything they want to do they have accomplished everything they needed to Who's gonna take their place if all the small youtubers leave now There's not gonna be anybody to take their place, and I really don't want that to happen That's why I'm trying my hardest. Hopefully one day. I'll be at not a huge youtubers level Maybe I'll be Somewhere that I could make a little bit of extra cash on who knows I Really want to make videos and I'm gonna be doing everything I can going forward So I really wish so many youtubers so many small youtubers would take that advice Would do that not just give up think of where they want to be on this platform and think how they can do it and Do it just do whatever You can to stay and if you work hard it will likely pay off But I will leave this video here kind of rambling at the end, but it is what it is It did affect me the policy changes, but I am going Straight at it. I'm gonna be trying to knock them down within the next year or two years and Trying to pass that to get ads back on my channel a lot of people honestly hated Because they're making pennies or dollars or whatever That's they're getting that taken away But if you're not making too much money to me you shouldn't be mad because it's not really affecting you too much I know having a little bit of change For videos and a little bit there is encouraging because you're like I made this little bit That's encouraging me to make more, but at the end of the day You'll you'll make it if you if you put in the effort you will make it you'll get that money back And it'll be substantial at one point The other thing before I leave I just want to talk about is I was so close to my first check as a lot of People were so hopefully YouTube decides to say okay, whatever you made so far you can cash out now We'll let you that would be encouraging even more, but they don't have to do that You could save that until you get big, but what happens if you never get big You're gonna have that little bit of cash just sitting there and you're never gonna cash it So I really hope YouTube changes that and they let us cash it out and also They have announced a lot of people were scared that their channel They're gonna be losing a lot of features that is a hundred percent false YouTube put out a statement and actually had a view video made for the YouTube creator sites or channel Saying you're not gonna be losing any of your features some features if you start a new channel now Some of the features where you had to have and be in the program You don't need to be in the program anymore You just have to get a call or get a text and they'll text you a link to Get some of your features back but if you had the features when you were a partner and After they make these changes You're still gonna have these features even though you're not gonna be part of the partnership anymore And a lot of these features are stuff that a small youtuber depends on in my opinion Which is sharing your links to other sites making videos more than 15 minutes Live-streaming small youtubers. I don't think we'll make it without live-streaming But I think I said everything that I had to in this video and I'm kind of proud of myself But I will leave this video here Please comment down below your opinions on the new policy changes at YouTube Let me know what you guys think how it is affecting you I really want to know more youtubers more small youtubers How they are doing now after it's been weeks since the announcement and I will see you guys in the next video Take care peace