I can remember when I made a YouTube channel years ago and at that time you did not need 1,000 subs etc and I started to make a little money straight away. But then YouTube moved the goal posts to their present requirements and I was gutted. I abandoned that channel as I just felt like " what's the point" and I know of a LOT of other channels that disappeared then to ....some of them very good ones to which have never really been replaced. It was a shame and the thing is all the time YouTube all the time have still been making their money just not sharing it with us