That's why I hate these centralized platforms, They keep changing their policies according to their advertisers, without even thinking about the content creators, My cousin started working on youtube a year ago and he works hard tirelessly and Completes the requirement of 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours watch time, and when he applied for monetization, They replied now they are monetizing the type of videos he is making :O I can show you 1000's of channels like that content are already monetized. Youtube sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is why i joined steemit @acidyo