Making Money Stuff.

I definitely think 2008-2012 were Youtube's best years overall. Back then the rules for monetization weren't ridiculous, and people were making tons of money. With my old channels, even I was making money back then. It's because the website didn't require a bazillion subscribers to be paid and the censorship wasn't ridiculous. Back then only illegal content was deleted, not ridiculous things like "your title shouldn't have this word" or "your title shouldn't have an acronym this way."

My main channel now has 4000 views. It's a nice milestone, but it's really nothing when you take the whole website in consideration. The average successful channel would gain that many views in less than a second.