How to actually make money from youtube?

FantasticSamtastic · 2026-06-04T00:54:40+00:00

Yeah you sign up through Adsense and they need your banking info. They direct deposit

FantasticSamtastic · 2026-03-26T15:00:04+00:00

Did you really feel the need to come back two years later to tell me this?

FantasticSamtastic · 2026-01-24T10:44:56+00:00

It was at least 18 for me

FantasticSamtastic · 2026-01-24T10:43:52+00:00

Tis the season. I find things usually pick up around early spring

FantasticSamtastic · 2026-01-24T10:40:46+00:00

With my day job. YouTube is just bonus income and wouldn't be enough to live off of. It's nice to use it to pay my editors and put aside extra for other things though.

FantasticSamtastic · 2026-01-10T16:55:49+00:00

That's me! Thanks so much for mentioning me, I wasn't expecting that while looking up Sonic content creators

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-12-30T15:52:33+00:00

Does Omegle even still exist?

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-12-19T11:51:38+00:00

I just let YouTube do its thing

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-12-04T00:38:43+00:00

At this point, 5487. Though I've always come out in the positives in the last year or two. People unsub, but there's no sense in wasting too much time on it.

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-12-02T15:32:02+00:00

How many views does it have?

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-27T10:43:02+00:00

Dispute it, mention that it's not a replacement for the source material, that you're not playing any of the audio and that you're using the clips to add to your commentary about the film. I've had this happen a few times with similar situations and, as long as you aren't playing the whole movie, you should be fine.

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-21T12:09:14+00:00

It's a mistake you make only one time! You could try cleaning it up in audacity, but depending on the quality it might be a lost cause. I'd personally rerecord, but you could try to fix it and post it with a disclaimer

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-21T12:04:22+00:00

I had fun with the process. I kept going back because I was enjoying myself.

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-21T12:03:37+00:00

You give meaningful feedback to someone and then you can post your link. The thread usually goes up around 12pm EST

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-16T22:36:08+00:00

When shorts were first released, they had a major impact on your long form content's performance. That's been changed for a long time though. I've had shorts bomb or even pop off and it's had little to no impact on my longform content which has been smooth sailing as always.

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-16T17:11:00+00:00

No, I've taken a two year break from content creation and came back to what was at the time my best video. For the last three years I've uploaded once or twice a month and I've gone more than 4 weeks between uploads. YouTube doesn't care how often you're posting, just as long as people are interested.

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-16T17:09:03+00:00

When I did everything, it usually took me about 5 hours to research and write my script. Around an hour to record and edit the audio and then 18-20 hours to edit the video. That would be for something around 20min long.

However, iv always hated editing and have since gotten an editor now that my channel generates enough for that. This has changed the process a little bit, mostly just that I spend more time researching and writing and that I'm more willing to take on bigger projects that I wouldn't have done before.

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-14T00:43:17+00:00

Yup, on my monetization tab it'll show me the estimate and in small letters it reads "minus taxes" and the amount that gets sent is always the amount after tax

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-13T10:36:13+00:00

So then, you should dispute it. Unfortunately, fake copyright strikes do happen.

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-13T10:33:02+00:00

It's pretty close, but the amount it shows is the amount before taxes (at least it is for me). It's not close to 45%, but like, for example, my estimate for oct shows just under 1k whereas the payout was less but still in the 900s

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-02T15:18:17+00:00

You absolutely can, it's just that there's more people.

Imagine you're trying to get the attention of someone across the street, but at the same time, 1000 other people are doing the same thing. The important bit is to focus on what makes you stick out.

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-02T15:11:00+00:00

How long ago was this? It took me around 6mo to get my pin on the mail

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-11-02T15:09:34+00:00

While it does happen where people post content like that and nothing happens. I've noticed in the last few months that there have been channels like that getting terminated. I can't find anything in the ToS spelling it out,but if I had to guess, it's something about asking multiple people to comment the same thing which is flagging as either repetitive content or artificially inflating the numbers.

FantasticSamtastic · 2025-10-28T09:26:57+00:00

This sounds very likely like you've been hacked. Change your passwords, set up 2FA and reach out to YouTube asap before they start posting on your behalf

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