Let's start with the basics! How to get the most money out of YouTube Shorts? 💰

Many people still think that Shorts is only about views and penny monetization from YouTube itself. This is a beginner's mistake.

We use a comprehensive approach in our networks. Income in Shorts is not based on a single source, but on an entire ecosystem ⚙️

Here are 8 tools we use to boost profits:

▪️ Reverse
▪️ Compilation
▪️ Traffic overflow
▪️ Products
▪️ Sponsorship
▪️ Super thanks
▪️ Broadcasts
▪️ Mini-course

💥Over the next two weeks, all topics will be covered in detail in posts!

Which of these methods have you already tried? Write in the comments 👇

The main boost to a channel's Shorts revenue is Products! 🎁

It's December now, and right now it's more relevant than ever: YouTube is giving away up to $1,400 on a single channel for sales of up to $14,000 in addition to the main revenue from this feature! 🔥

Let's start with the basics, namely how to enable it:

1. 20,000+ subscribers on your channel (this is nothing for shorts).
2. Set the country to the United States 🇺🇸 in the settings.
3. Give it a week for the products to activate after all the necessary indicators have been activated.
4. As soon as they become available, immediately place the goods on your active rollers for 48 hours 📈

Currently, our most powerful case is sales of $1,000,000 on just one channel, which is more than $14,000 in net profit, excluding bonuses. Last year, the bonuses amounted to $2,500! 💵

It is also important to note that you will have to wait quite a long time for them. If, for example, you sold $1,000 worth of commission in December, you will receive it in February at the earliest.

If you have any questions, or if you are already doing this, write in the comments 👇

📈Traffic overflow from Shorts videos — or how to easily lose 95% of potential income.

The most common mistake we see our competitors make when running Shorts channels is linking to other Shorts in the “Related Videos” tab.

Let's first figure out how much an author who tags other Shorts instead of a long video will earn.

✅Let's stick to the average RPM for children's Shorts videos without English: 0.05💵per 1,000 views.

Let's say a Shorts channel has collected 100,000,000 interested views. Let's calculate how many people will click through:

On average, for every 500-1000 people interested in a Short, there is 1 click through to another video.
We get 130,000 views, but where we redirect them changes the whole picture.

If a Shorts video is specified, the income will be: 6.5💵
If a Long video is specified, the income will be: 325💵

+4-6% in addition to this amount for viewers who simply visit the channel and open your long video to see what's there.

But why is the RPM 2.5💵and not, for example, 0.6 - 1💵, as in the usual children's hype topics without language?

Simple algorithm psychology is at work here. Viewers who scroll through the Shorts feed hardly interact with traditional advertising. For the system, they are a “blank slate.”

As soon as they click on your link and go to a long video, YouTube understands: “The viewer is ready to watch!” and immediately shows them a bold pre-roll (advertisement before the start) or mid-roll.

📉 In a regular search, the viewer already has “banner blindness” or has just watched 10 videos.

📈 When switching from Shorts, this is the freshest traffic, which the system is eager to show ads to.

Conclusion:
Stop chasing viewers around in circles in the Shorts feed. Send them to the long form, where YouTube is willing to pay you for “premium” views.

In the future, we can discuss separately what kind of video to create for the transition, how long it should be, and other questions on this topic. Put 🔥 if you are interested in the continuation.

The "Super Thanks" Feature: When Extra Income Hurts Your Main Revenue 💰

Many Shorts creators enable every available monetization feature, following the logic: "any income is better than none." However, in the case of Super Thanks (the equivalent of donations) on faceless channels without a personal brand, this logic can be a mistake.
What do we see in practice? ❓

📍Minimal Revenue: On channels with massive, billion-view traffic (for example, in niches like Brainrot or kids' content), income from Super Thanks is literally minimal. Over a year, it might amount to just $20–$50.

📍How it works: The viewer sees a Short, and a badge offering to "thank" the creator appears right over the video. Clicking it opens a window suggesting a donation and a comment.

Why can this feature be dangerous for your income? ❓


1️⃣ Conflict with Products: The main problem lies in the competition for screen space. The "Super Thanks" badge takes a priority spot over Products (items you’ve tagged), which provide your main revenue boost. These products also use this mechanism—recommending items to the viewer via a CTA badge overlaying the video.

2️⃣ Lost Clicks: If a viewer sees the Super Thanks button, they most likely won't see the Products badge. If your viewer is a 5–7-year-old child (which often happens with Shorts), upon seeing a donation window, they will simply close it without making a purchase or a donation. You lose a precious click that could have brought in a high commission from a product sale.

3️⃣ YouTube's Commission:
With products, you receive your fair affiliate commission and even bonuses on top. For example, from $200 in sales, you might get a $50 bonus in December, and a $200 purchase is sometimes just one click away.

But with the income you see in the "Super Thanks" section, YouTube takes its share—30% 🤬, as they officially state.

Conclusion: Those $10–$20 of annual income from "Super Thanks" are not worth a single viewer failing to click on your profitable Products. If you run an anonymous channel without a personal brand, it is better to disable "Super Thanks" to free up space for CTA badges that bring in real revenue.

Share your results with this feature; we are genuinely interested to see what it looks like for others 🔥

YouTube Algorithms in Turmoil: System Bug or the End of Old Videos? 📉

Recently, many have encountered a sharp drop in traffic on older videos. We first felt this on our own channel featuring kids' AI animations (the "cappuccino-ballerina" trend). For a long time, the channel generated stable income from videos uploaded long ago, but in a single moment, the statistics collapsed.

Our first thought was a shadowban or filters (we’ve been there before, catching bans for spam on networks with 200–300 million views in 48 hours — more on that later). But later, we noticed the situation was mirrored across dozens of other channels.

What are we seeing in practice❓

📍 Selective Strike: Traffic wasn't cut off everywhere. For example, an old Spanish-language 2D animation channel (stats attached above) hasn't released videos for six months, yet the traffic there is rock solid and isn't dropping.

📍 Randomness: There are other channels where nothing happened at all. This debunks the panic that YouTube has completely killed traffic for old content.

Why is this happening? Our two theories:

1️⃣ Natural Selection: The algorithm may have surgically disabled channels whose content no longer meets new retention and recommendation standards. That’s why it only affected a portion of channels.

2️⃣ Technical Error (Most Likely): Despite being worth billions of dollars, YouTube is a platform full of bugs. This looks very similar to the situation when you take an active video and try to edit it (blur, trim, swap a track). In such cases, the algorithm often glitches and "kills" the video. We believe an algorithm update was implemented poorly and erroneously "slashed" a number of channels.

The myth about "fresh content priority" 🚫

Right now, many are shouting: "The new algorithm only prioritizes fresh videos." This is not true! We still have many channels that are currently generating thousands of dollars exclusively from very old videos (both Shorts and Long-form).

✍️ Conclusion: If your old videos have dropped, this isn't a YouTube paradigm shift, but most likely a random glitch or a targeted content re-evaluation. The system malfunctioned, but not everywhere.

Let us know, how did this go for you? Do you still have channels where everything is stable, or did it cut off old videos everywhere? It’s interesting to see how this randomness affected others 👇

How to enter a new niche and get results instantly? The Breakdown 🚀

Many people ask: how do you get enough views for monetization from just one video and achieve results like the ones in the screenshot above?

If we break the launch down to the molecular level, here is our checklist for an instant start. It’s not just about "shooting a video," it’s mathematics:

1️⃣ The Right Niche. Not just what you like, but where the traffic is right now.

2️⃣ Hardcore Competitor Analysis. We aren't reinventing the wheel; we watch all the top videos in the niche, dissect them second by second, and look for patterns.

3️⃣ The Perfect Template. The video structure must be calibrated down to the specific frame.

4️⃣ Top-Notch Quality. Viewers are spoiled these days. The visuals, dynamics, and editing — everything must be up to standard.

5️⃣ New Idea + Triggers. Old concepts don't work. You need to add new characters, swap outdated sound design for trending audio, and hook the viewer emotionally (retention psychology).

But there is one technical nuance that helped achieve the result in this case study. 👇

⚙️ What kind of channel did we use?

Laying our cards on the table. It’s not a newly registered account (novoreg).

The channel is over six months old. It used to be monetized, but it was removed by mistake. The appeal video was poorly recorded (human error), and monetization wasn't restored. We deleted the old videos (you can see the niche in the screenshot) and started with a clean slate.

Why did this work better than creating a new channel? 🤔

It’s all about the 3rd feature (Advanced features).
YouTube has currently "tightened the screws" for beginners: on fresh channels, the system often simply won't let you enable advanced features via video verification or ID documents. This becomes a huge problem for quickly enabling monetization.

✅ On this channel, the 3rd feature was already historically active.
To the algorithms, this is a "trusted" channel, not a suspicious new account.

‼️ However, new channels also perform excellently with the algorithms, though it often might take a few more days to get traffic like you see in the screenshot.

📆 Start: December 12th.
You can see the result yourself. Sometimes an old, abandoned asset is better than trying to start from scratch on a new account.

Who’s interested in learning how we chose exactly those triggers that worked perfectly while not being used by competitors — drop some 🔥, and we’ll tell you in the next post.

🔄 What is “reverse” in Shorts?
Or how to spend one minute and earn 2x, 3x, or sometimes even 100x more views and revenue from the same video

👀 Observation
For some reason, most creators who’ve been running Shorts and long-form channels for a while never even consider a simple idea:

uploading their videos to YouTube played in reverse.

Before we go further, let’s break it down:
👉 what it is
👉 how it works
👉 and why it can pop off

We’ll look at just 3 examples — that’s enough to understand the principle.

🍦 Option 1. Template-based content

You have a 6-second video where a character eats ice cream to a trending track.
You upload similar videos, changing:

- characters
- backgrounds
- ice cream
- animations

👉 This is exactly the type of template content where reverse works best.

What you do:

- Keep the same music and the same video length that’s already getting views
- Turn on “Reverse playback” in your editing software
- Render the video

📌 Result:
The character starts by chewing and then “spits” the ice cream back to its original state.
What the original video started with — the reverse ends with, and vice versa.

🐻 Option 2. Character changes by timing

For example:

- the same track
- 10-second video
- a new character every 2 seconds
- similar action (e.g. tucking a child in with a blanket)

What to do:

- reverse each 2-second segment separately
- assemble them in the same order

⚠️ You don’t have to keep the original sequence — you can rearrange the characters however you want.

🪞 Option 3. Original + reverse

- take the original video
- make it take up half the screen
- place the same video next to it, but reversed

🎯 What this gives you:

- the video becomes more visually engaging
- kids and teens want to rewatch it

❗️ Important:
Every niche and every format requires an individual approach
(just like everything on YouTube).

📈 What does this give you overall?

1. One more video on your channel in just one minute
2. YouTube won’t remove monetization for “repetitive content” because the viewer gets a new visual experience
3. A reverse video can get just as many views as the original

💰 How can this increase revenue by x100?

❓ Fair question.
👉 The answer is simple.

From our personal experience:
entire niches started gaining views specifically in reverse, even though they didn’t perform at all before.

📊 As a result:

- insane reach
- growth in views
- growth in revenue

🔥 The tastiest next step

One of the most powerful continuations is reversing your compilations.

📌 There will be a separate post about compilations soon, so don’t miss it.
If you combine this tool with the second one —
your channel can experience a real BOOM in views 💥

⚠️ Important to understand

- It doesn’t work everywhere and not always
- Today YouTube is loyal, tomorrow — demonetization

🧠 So:

- think with your own head
- take risks consciously
- don’t blame anyone
- test everything in practice

We’re sharing our experience, and it’s relevant at the moment this post was written.

💬 Feedback

If this is new to you, or if you have niches you don’t understand how to reverse —
write them in the comments along with your question.

We’ll try to answer 👇

We’re launching a new series of posts for our next knowledge base ❗️

Long 🆚 Shorts (the main pros and cons of Shorts compared to long-form content)

Almost everyone, before starting to work with short-form videos, has asked themselves: how profitable is it really, and what are the pros and cons compared to long-form content?

✍️ In the upcoming posts, we’ll take a deep dive into topics that will be useful both for those who haven’t started yet and for those who, like us, have already tested more than 50 niches in Shorts.

For this comparison, we rely on all our experience working with both content formats on YouTube, and we’ll also share insights from partners and friends who have achieved significant results in both short and long videos.

Topics we’ll cover in detail in the next posts:

▪️ Copyright
▪️ Algorithms
▪️ Income from abandoned channels
▪️ Channel personal brand
▪️ Workload and effort
▪️ Monetization
▪️ Easy start

💥Over the next few weeks, all these topics will be раскрыты one by one in dedicated posts!

⚠️ Sudden Drop in Views to Zero: What’s Going On?

Recently, many of our channels—as well as those of partners, friends, and community members—have experienced a sharp drop in views, in some cases down to absolute zero.

Important: in most cases, this is an artificial limitation imposed by the platform, not a loss of audience interest.

Below are the main reasons WE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIED, based on the information we received and our observations.

🧹 1. Pre-New Year “Spam” Cleanup (The December Purge)

Mid-December is the peak of advertising budgets.
Major advertisers pay huge sums for impressions, and during this period platforms (especially YouTube) significantly tighten quality filters so brand ads don’t appear next to “low-quality” content.

What happens:

- The algorithm массово removes channels from the feed
- Channels get labeled as:
- Low Quality
- Mass Generated (mass-produced content)

👉 The goal is to free up space for more “brand-safe” content.

🤖 2. Crackdown on Content Farms (AI Spam Filters)

If you or others in your niche have:

- many channels
- a high upload frequency (e.g., 3–5 videos per day)

the platform may recognize this as a “content farm” pattern.

What changed in 2024–2025:

Algorithms now analyze not only the video itself, but also the method of creation. If the system detects:

- identical assets
- similar voices
- the same pacing/dynamics
- similar generations across thousands of channels

➡️ the entire network of channels can be hit with a “shadow ban” at once.

This explains why drops often happen simultaneously across many channels.

🏷 3. Missing “AI Content” Label

(Not confirmed, but may have an impact—especially if the content looks realistic.)

YouTube has introduced stricter rules:

If a video looks realistic and is created with AI, labeling is mandatory.

Possibly:

- a new stage of automated moderation has launched
- videos without the “Altered content / AI generated” checkbox may be treated as violations
- the algorithm freezes impressions pending review

🔁 4. “Reused Content” Issue

In AI niches, it’s common to use:

- the same music
- identical sound effects
- similar visual templates

If the algorithm decides that:

- videos are too similar to each other
- or too similar to content from other creators
- and lack sufficient unique value

➡️ it stops distributing them in Shorts / Feed.

🧠 How the Channel Evaluation Algorithm Likely Works

Roughly speaking, the algorithm does the following:

🔍 Determines the channel is AI-generated → YES
⏱️ Sees many videos with identical or near-identical duration
(e.g., 10–12 seconds) → negative signal
🎵 Detects the same audio track → another negative signal

The channel is classified as:

- reused content
- low quality
- mass-generated

➡️ During a cleanup wave, such a channel is simply cut off from traffic.

⚠️ The Main Problem

Traffic cuts have affected TRULY UNIQUE CONTENT, but with:

- similar durations
- identical music

📌 Conclusion: even high-quality channels are currently at risk.

✅ What to Do?

Try to make your videos fully unique—from visuals to duration to audio—in order to minimize the risk of traffic being cut during the next wave.

Most likely, this is a wave-based cleanup ahead of the holidays. Traffic usually returns within 3–7 days, as long as the channel wasn’t permanently banned for spam or demonetized under the relatively new reason: “Misleading / Unreliable Content.”

Share this with friends and contacts who are facing the same issue, and feel free to add your own observations.
Good luck. Stay in touch. 🤝

🔴 Streams in Shorts: can you make money from them?

We conducted an experiment: we launched a 5-hour stream loop (a compilation of videos) on a major children's channel. The result in terms of income was a complete disappointment. 📉

Here are the figures:
▪️ Reach: 1.5 million views.
▪️ Revenue “in the moment”: $2.5
▪️ Revenue after a year: $141.40
(accumulated only because the stream recording was viewed as a regular video).

Why is there no money in this scheme? ⚙️
1️⃣ Audience: 5-year-olds don't have credit cards, don't donate, and don't buy anything.
2️⃣ Format: In the Shorts feed, advertising on streams pays mere pennies.
3️⃣ Anonymity: There is zero loyalty to a faceless stream. It's just a background image that no one is willing to pay for.

Important clarification: ⚠️
Shorts streams are initially designed for completely different content. It is a tool for bloggers with a face, streamers, and those who are building a personal brand. There, the money lies in donations and live communication. In anonymous niches, it's a one-sided game.

So why might it be useful?

For anonymous networks, streaming on Shorts is not about money, but about traffic:
✅ Subscriptions: Millions of views are the fastest way to grow your base.
✅ Resuscitation: Live streams powerfully “wake up” algorithms if the channel has started to decline.
✅ Overflow: This is a free way to drive people to long videos with high RPM through pinned comments.

Conclusion:
If you're hoping to monetize in anonymous niches, forget it, it's a waste of time. But if you need reach and subscribers, this tool works 100%. 🚀

Share this post with your friends, you won't find a base like this on the road🔥

📦 Compilations in Shorts: How to create content twice as fast and earn more?

Many authors focus on solo videos, missing out on a huge amount of traffic. A compilation is a collection of several short clips into one video. It's a legal way to reuse your own content and “hit the jackpot” where the originals didn't. ⚙️

We use two main formats in our feeds. Let's take a look at each one:

Option 1: Multi-screen📹
This is when 2, 4, 8, or even 16 different videos are played simultaneously in one Shorts.

How it works: If your niche is short (up to 5 seconds) action scenes (for example, destroying sand figures), you combine different versions into one grid.

The benefit: Viewers are interested in watching everything at once, which dramatically increases retention.

Our case study: In one niche, solo videos were not performing well. We started making a grid of 4 videos simultaneously, and the niche immediately went viral, overtaking all competitors who either did not make such collages or did not do them correctly.

⚠️ Important: Don't overdo it to avoid catching unreliable content. Start with 2-4 windows and gradually test the format.

Option 2: Sequential splicing (Long-Shorts) 📹
You take your Shorts and put them one after another, extending the track by 3-5 times.

Often, such “extended” versions surpass the originals in reach and become a new trend within the channel. This is a great way to increase revenue from ready-made material.

💥 The long video (VOD) trick
Sticking your Shorts together into one full-length video is a must-have. But there's a critical mistake that 95% of creators make: don't redirect traffic from Shorts to these long videos with a link.

Why? 📉
The Shorts audience is used to quick dopamine hits. When they click on a link to a long video, they close it after 10 seconds. This kills retention and “buries” the video for algorithms.
The right way: Make a juicy preview and let the video live its life in recommendations. If the content is high-quality, it will find its audience and bring you a normal RPM.

Conclusion:
Compilations are the perfect format for a “second video of the day.” It doesn't take much time, doesn't ruin your stats, and gives your old videos a chance to rack up millions again. 📈

Share this post with your colleagues — this database will save them a ton of time on producing additional content! 🤝

Happy Holidays, friends! 🎄

Reflecting on the past year, we want to say a huge thank you to every single one of you.

In the New Year, we wish you to stay focused. YouTube rewards consistency. May your editing be seamless, your ideas never run dry, and may your AdSense payments arrive on time and in full!

👇 Drop your number one goal for your channel this year in the comments below.

Let’s lock in that intention so we can check back a year from now!

Happy New Year! 🥂

Copyright. The first topic from our new database🚀

As promised, we will begin to examine in detail the differences between short and long content. At the end, we have a gift for you💝

And first up is the topic of copyright (CP). Here, it's much deeper than just “will you get a strike or not.”
In Shorts and Long, the rules of the game are from completely different worlds⚙️

1️⃣ Music: how not to give revenue to rights holders🎵

In Long:
Using popular tracks almost always means losing money🙁. Either “yellow dollar” (share the revenue) or “red” (everything goes to the songwriter).

Here's the life hack we use:

We take similar remixes or create our own tracks through Suno. For children's AI niches, this is the only way to keep 100% of the coins for yourself.

In Shorts:
It's simpler here: you can take any song (for example, “Sigma Boy”), and it won't affect your income.

But there is a big limitation: with original music, you won't be able to mark “Products”😭... And that hurts your income, but it's tolerable🤕.

The downside for creators: if you've made a cool remix yourself, it will spread across your competitors' channels, they will get billions of views, and you won't get anything out of it. Tested on personal experience🤷‍♂️.

But on Long, you can actually license your tracks if they suddenly spread across YouTube, as the author of "DaFuq!? Boom!", and after a month, where the toilets were singing the Skibidi track, copyright appeared and he started to receive huge additional income🤑


2. Content theft: where is YouTube “sleeping”? 👁

In Long:
The system clearly sees theft. Even rough editing and cuts often do not save you from demonetization for “foreign content.”

In Shorts:
There is real chaos here. Moderation simply cannot keep up with checking the millions of videos that are uploaded every day📊

Our experiment: In the summer, we launched a channel with blatant re-uploading (reversing, cutting frames). We spent 5 minutes a day on it.

Result: The channel received a coin and brought in $3,000 in net profit💵

Nuance: YouTube may “wake up” in 1-2 months, but this time is often enough to recoup the tests and collect the AdSense payment.

3. Strikes: adequacy versus lottery 👊

In Long: the strike system works correctly. In Shorts, it's a lottery🎰 It can be difficult to prove that you are the author, even when theft is obvious.

And now our GIFT 💝 for those who work with AI:

How to make someone else's video unique:

1. Screenshot frames from their popular video.
2. Ask the AI for images to improve the quality and generate 1 to 1.
3. Go to the website: https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat
and send your competitor's video directly via a YouTube link. First, let it know the average length of the video or how it is divided into parts so that it can accurately count all the actions in the video.
4. Request prompts for exactly the same animations and images.
5. Animate and edit according to the new example 1:1.
6. Yes, it will take some time, but here's what you'll get:

- An exact copy of the video that is currently gaining views.
- The file's hash sum is different.
- The pixel grid is different.
- The movements (animation) are different.

It is practically impossible to get struck down because visually it is a different work. And at the beginning of 2026, this is the best way to “steal” ideas legally.

The main conclusion that can be drawn:
YouTube Shorts is not yet coping with the volume, and this is a “window of opportunity” for those who know how to work cleverly with content.

In Long, everything works much better in terms of moderation and original content creators, but AI is still unattainable for them, and they are only trying to fight it.

If you found our post very useful, share it with a friend who might find it relevant and support the development of the channel❤️

😠The “match factory” trap: Why is YouTube taking down your AI content?

This is a bonus topic for our useful chain, as this issue is on everyone's agenda. And we are happy to reveal this topic to you😏

YouTube has entered the era of the “Great Purge.” The main reason for demonetization now is not copyright, but the status of “inauthentic content” (low-quality or automatically generated content).

What is the main drama?
Many of you spend 4-5 hours on a single video: you polish your prompts, struggle with generations, select music, and monitor competitors. And in the end, you are denied monetization😭 In your appeal, you shout, “I did it myself! This is my work!”

But YouTube doesn't care about your efforts. And here's why.

🏭 Analogy with a match factory

Imagine that the authorities have banned the mass production of matches in factories. Only manual, craft work is allowed.

You lock yourself in your garage and spend two weeks hand-carving each match, selecting the sulfur composition, and painting the box😡. But if your “handmade” match looks exactly like the ones that rolled off the factory conveyor belt at a rate of a million per hour, they'll shut you down.

YouTube's algorithm won't come to your home to check how hard you worked on your prompts. It only sees the final product. If your AI video doesn't differ in visuals and structure from what the automatic software churns out, you're going to get taken down📉

🎞 Editing is your “passport”

The algorithm can't tell whether you generated an image on the first or tenth try; it looks at how you processed it.

For long videos:
⛔️Avoid endless compilations. This undermines the algorithm's trust.

Life hack: Reusing frames from other channels (via AI) is still “under the radar” because YouTube doesn't have enough resources to check your channel against all the other channels. This is a gray area where blocks are still rare.

For Shorts:
5-10 second videos are a risk zone. But not because of their length, but because of the niches themselves. 90% of these niches do not provide for unique editing. If your content looks like a typical template without author's edits, you are in line for demonetization⚠️

🐳 Main whale: Global concept

Your channel should not be reduced to one narrow trigger (for example, only “Racing” or only “Disgust”). It looks like a spam network.

How to do it right:
Your concept should be broad. For example, the theme of “Karma.” Today it manifests itself in racing, tomorrow in shooting competitions, and the day after tomorrow in running. Although this may not be enough, don't stick to one “theme”; come up with a few more.

Remember✍️

Your content should be different not only visually but also conceptually. The more topics and variety you have, the higher your chances of monetization.

Add original elements and don't stick to the same sources for editing. Keep looking for and using unique transitions and sounds that break the factory template. If your editing is monotonous, it's a death sentence with no chance of pardon⛔️

The bottom line:

The problem is not new, but previously YouTube couldn't check every channel without a live specialist. Now YouTube's AI bot breaks your content down into atoms. Its errors are minimal, so even the most tearful appeals no longer work. Only the result on the screen matters, not the hours of your labor.

All we ask is that you repost this to a friend or colleague—that's the best motivation for us to keep going! 🤝🔥

Mass demonetization on YouTube: what’s actually going on❓

After the release of Gemini, YouTube began more actively integrating AI systems into moderation and platform algorithms. Since then, the situation has changed dramatically.

Algorithms have started removing monetization on a massive scale — not only from “gray” channels, but also from legitimate creators.

What’s happening in practice?

A very vague reason for demonetization has appeared — *“inauthentic content.”*
The wording is so broad that it can be applied to almost any format.

Those affected include:

- 2D and 3D animators
- gaming channels
- channels with editing, reactions, compilations (especially using AI)
- educational and documentary content (with AI involvement)

Appeals are essentially not working.
They are reviewed by the same automated system. Responses are template-based. Even after 2–3 months, a channel can receive repeated rejections without any human review.

The issue affects not only small creators.
Large channels are also being demonetized en masse, posting videos analyzing the situation and complaining about the lack of transparency.

What is the core problem?

YouTube used to be a platform where creators could rely on:

- clear rules
- the ability to appeal
- human moderation in disputed cases

Now it feels like:

- decisions are made entirely by AI
- human support is nearly nonexistent
- the reasoning has become maximum vague

And most concerning — creators don’t understand what exactly they violated or how to fix it.

Why is this dangerous?

Legitimate creators are being affected.
Platform predictability is disappearing.
People are losing their main source of income without clear explanations.
Trust in the monetization system is declining.

If today it’s 2D animation and gaming — tomorrow it could be any other format.

How to deal with this?

1. Document your content creation process as much as possible.
Keep source files, recordings of the process, scripts — everything that proves originality (and hope a human actually reviews it).

2. Focus on more complex content — the era of AI slop is coming to an end.
Voiceovers, subtitles (if possible), advanced editing, etc.

3. Minimize repetitiveness on your channel — this is currently a trigger in these niches and can lead to demonetization.

Below are links to videos from creators who have already publicly analyzed this issue — watch and draw your own conclusions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9z0-WTvzZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMZWOUNRD0

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