> Making people feel they need to earn the right that their earnings be shared with them is just icing on the cake. That's not even the half of it. Unless your

> Making people feel they need to earn the right that their earnings be shared with them is just icing on the cake. That's not even the half of it. Unless your channel is big enough to be considered a "partner", you are basically fucked when it comes to content strikes, DMCA, AI/contractor driven "community standards" issues, random demonetization, etc. There's no real "support". The demonetizing thing is particularly funny, I know of channels where their videos get demonetized for content guidelines violations, but viewers still see advertisements. Happens a lot with firearms related content.