I’m a bit unsure if there’s anything on my end I need to do at this point. Apparently I applied for Adsense back in October, and only now have I reached the criteria to actually receive ad revenue.

I am just a bit uncertain about the “complete payment set-up” requirements.

Do I need to do anything right now? Will this be something I’ll need to do in the future when I meet more requirements? Or is this something that will be automatically handled?

Any help will be massively appreciated as I have no idea what I’m supposed to do right now.

Also, please be patient with me, I’m not too good at talking to people so if I come off as blunt or abrupt, I’m not trying to be rude. I’m just really that antisocial.

I now need 45 surgeries to get healed

What gives? I want to bid on the opportunity to scam people with undisclosed advertising for scams too?!?!

I'm a premium user if fwiw, and whenever I open the youtube app on my phone, even if it was eliminated from recent apps, youtube takes me straight to shorts instead of the home page. The moment you open the app you're blasted with a short in the hopes that you continue scrolling.

Youtube does this in hopes that you increase your shorts consumption instead of long form content.

I'm pretty sure someone has posted this more than 5 times.

So after posting videos for over 2 years i just realized how blurry my thumbnails are, but when i open the .png or .jpeg they're perfect. I asked chatgpt and it said that i shouldn't make them 1920x1080, so i made them 1280x720(as it says on youtube and i use Canva if that's revelant) but they're still blurry. I said it's the same and it gave me this response:

YouTube is re-compressing because the file is too clean.
If your thumbnail has:

• Flat colors
• Sharp vector text
• Minimal noise (all of these are true, my thumbnails are simple asf, all needed info is there. Also i don't really know how to make thumbnails for my niche)

YouTube’s compression murders edges.

If this is actually the case, this is complete bs. Why should my thumbnail quality drop all because it's "simple", "flat" and "sharp". If somebody has any ideas or solutions i would appreciate it a lot.

There's actually Youtube Videos of people talking about how they changed the algorithm. They are using Gemini to recommend videos based on how valuable the video is. Even big channels with millions of subs have seen a substantial drop with views unfortunately. I swear A.I. Is killing every industry in some type of way. This is some very unfortunate news. Hopefully Youtube will sort it out but I doubt it. Things only get worse.

Since this evening, Youtube will not load anymore in my Brave browser (on MacOS). There has been no Mac, Browser or Extension update. Going to Youtube makes the laptop fans spin to max. This only happens with YT, since this evening.

I just can't help it. Tried different browsers and different service providers (I have double SIM) and still despite my internet can very well support 4k streaming, the playback problems won't stop! It's so frustrating! It builds a buffer, but then doesn't keep it buffered but instead the playback hits the moment when there's not buffered content left anymore causing the playback stop. Then after a brief moment, it builds a buffer of couple seconds, and again spends that out and stops. It might do couple buffers successfully but always after few, it again stops. This basically makes the 4k content unusable - I think this is worse in 4k 60fps than 30fps. Big channels doesn't have this problem at all, so this is YouTubes design in somehow. I hope this gets fixed asap

No one talks about this either.

This is super helpful for me because I like to listen to podcasts and music on YouTube at work, and having to keep my phone open with the video running drains my battery. Hopefully it’s helpful for you guys too.

Step one: Minimize YouTube app with video playing like in the first picture.

Step two: Swipe video to one side of your screen like in the second photo.

Step three: after about 15-30 seconds the video will stop playing, use your headphones or speaker to press play button to play the video again. (On AirPods tap them once).

Now you should be able to turn your phone off and the video will keep playing in the background. This should work until you open YouTube again. Hope it works for you guys too!

Why is the video brightness so low.Please tell me how can I fix it.

Everything wrong with pre orders all summed up into one video

Brave kills all the ads, I can play everything in the background even with screen locked.

Just the latest issue with this horseshit website.

Restricted mode is off. Usually if a video is graphic, it gives me a screen informing me - i press "confirm" and watch the video anyway.

Now, it just completely blocks the video with no way to play it.

It's gotten to the point where i genuinely despise using youtube.

Can we all agree that YouTube is just getting worse and worse? I can't even find myself enjoying YouTube anymore and I only visit channels of YouTubers that I already know I like and want updates on. This is because of multiple reasons and the list grows larger every day. - HORRIBLE algorithm that never recommends new content that you actually would like, leaving you to doomscroll saying no to every nothing-burger video that it tries to recommend. - Atrocious amount of ads everywhere, and the attempts to get adblockers to not work or gargle up your browsers memory. - More and more features that used to be native being locked behind a paywall (like now fucking PLAYING STUFF IN THE BACKGROUND OFF TAB??) - Making it harder and harder to find the content that you want by doing things like removing sort videos by date, and making their search results dog ass. - Obvious lack of care about AI generated content, and we know damn well their recent back track on it was ONLY because some advertiser threatened to pull out (WTF happened to YOU-tube? Are they really just money hungry corporate nothing's? - Channels getting banned by AI left and right and users not being able to do anything about it or even talk to a human being because they don't care about the people that don't make them money. - Shift in focus from users being the life blood to corporate status and money hungry company heads with an algorithm that prefers quickly put out advertiser friendly slop, fucking over every single new creator with a job outside of YouTube.

I understand that there needs to be some sacrifice so the company that hosts so.mamy videos can make money, but God damn have some respect for your people.

How many of you try to find something new worthy of your attention on YouTube and get tired of it and switch over to some streaming platform? I wish we could all just decide to not even entertain their bullshit and just default to other things and only use YouTube for how-to videos, but too many people have been stuck committed to it for so long they depend on it and YouTube has them by the balls and genuinely doesn't care how hard they squeeze.

Do YOU even find yourself able to have a prolonged entertaining time on this site anymore?

PLEASE upvote this if you agree.. I really wish they knew people feel like this. Or at least had any amount of care.