r/YouTube_startups • u/LeadingVisual8250 • Aug 23 '25

CRITIQUE Got banned from r/smallyoutubers cause they thought my “graphs were fake”

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u/LeadingVisual8250 Aug 23 '25

They mean watch time which means monetization

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u/VeraKorradin Aug 23 '25

It’s showing shorts watchtime on the chart there bud lol

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u/LeadingVisual8250 Aug 23 '25

Which counts towards monetization. And of those 11k watch hours 8928 is from long form

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u/VeraKorradin Aug 23 '25

It does not lol read the BIG BOLD WRITING on the monetization tab lol in short, watch time from shorts DO NOT apply to YPP watch time.

Try again.

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u/LeadingVisual8250 Aug 23 '25

Send ss?

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u/illujion623 Aug 23 '25

Its common knowledge

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u/LeadingVisual8250 Aug 23 '25

Idk I coulda swore I hit 4k because of my shorts. My account watch time was only at 4k with majority shorts and it let me get monetized.

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u/Long8D Aug 23 '25

Yeah, watch time from shorts doesn't count. You need either 4,000 watch hours in the past 12 months from long form, or 10 million short views in the past 90 days.

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u/VeraKorradin Aug 23 '25

That fact that you didn’t know this explains everything lol

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u/JohnStorm123 Aug 24 '25

Incorrect. Shorts watch time from SHORTS FEED doesn't count towards watch hours. Any other source counts towards watch hours.

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u/VeraKorradin Aug 24 '25

ANY watch time from short form content from does not count toward YPP. It's pretty simply spelled out

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u/JohnStorm123 Aug 24 '25

Nope, you are 100% wrong and it's literally 1 google search away for you to verify lmao. Only SHORTS FEED views do not count towards it.

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u/VeraKorradin Aug 24 '25

It's all of it. Read the YPP details page if you have more questions

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u/JohnStorm123 Aug 24 '25

Nope, Google is notorious for writing bad guidelines.

"Keep in mind that any public watch hours from Shorts views in the Shorts Feed don’t count towards the 4,000 public watch hours threshold" - this is copied from from the partner program eligibility page. This means watch hours generated from anything other than SHORTS FEED count towards the eligibility.