My Honest Opinion on YouTube Demonetization, I Ranted...

[00:03] of content, because it's garbage, it's garbage, it's garbage. If you want to be lazy, this is no place for you, no place for you. YouTube is no place for lazy people. In 2020, I created cutting channels, and that's where

[00:17] we need to talk about YouTube? Because this talk of demonetization already existed even before these issues of cutting channels started, okay? Okay

[00:29] , let's recap. In 2020 there was a surge in the number of people undergoing surgery. 2020. Even today idea. Then came Flow, then Podp, then several podcasts, and then this wave of making cuts as well. So I was one of the people who rode that wave. If

[00:44] billion-dollar cuts," you'll find a channel that I sold, okay? It's been a long time since I sold that channel. I sold it in 2000, and that guy sold it to someone else, who bought the channel, he posts the content there. But there are cuts. If you go there

[00:58] , you'll see the long haircuts, right? I didn't even have shorts back then. Back then, people talked a lot about demonetization, and especially demonetized. That was the topic of conversation. And I was

[01:10] the guy who had a channel about practical entrepreneurship. So, in 2020, at the beginning of the channel, I didn't have the editing channels. It wasn't until the game channel, Velcroc Valorant. There you go. If you go

[01:24] to YouTube, you'll find him with the videos. Finally, I created Cortes videos. Finally, I created Cortes Bilionários in February 2021, I made around R$ 50,000 with it, and then I was demonetized, then I got

[01:37] in 2021, I made a lot of videos talking about demonetization. And at the end of the end, I'm going to show you how to not depend on Google Adsense. What YouTube did to our channel was simply that it will no longer make

[01:51] don't have that anymore, man. That doesn't mean the channel is broken. And man, this thing haunts me, dude. This has been haunting me because it's been about a year since I last created content here on Bora pra Prática,

[02:05] but I came back last week and, man, I came back talking about creating a channel using 100% artificial intelligence. And man, there are so many comments haunting me. I think I'm going to have to talk about this for the rest of my

[02:18] life, because YouTube will keep demonetizing the channel, and not just because it's AI, not just because, well, there are several reasons why YouTube demonetizes, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, reasons why YouTube demonetizes, many, many, many, many, many, many, many,

[02:32] like, a lot. And there are comings and there will be new ones and understand that. YouTube is indeed unstable in terms of viewership, but I don't look at it anymore, you see. Let's see if I can do it here. 83.

[02:46] What is 83, my friend? You know, like, let's get down to business. It's nothing. It's nothing. 83 is n't even R$500. But with the two videos I posted last Sunday and two videos I posted last Sunday and Monday, it

[03:03] like, is videos that will just keep circulating forever. Good videos that hit 1 million views. Like, I'm not in a hurry, you know? These are videos 'm not talking about advertising here, I'm talking about the strategies behind a

[03:18] video. Finally, I have some notes here so we don't go off-topic. chat now. I don't know how many people are watching live either. I want to make this video The Q&A session will start soon, so stay until the end. Finally, let's talk

[03:32] total rant. So, if you 're arriving a year later, [laughs] I hope this video is still trending a year from now, because I think . So, whenever you have doubts about demonetization,

[03:45] you can come back to this live stream, even if it's a year later. Finally, the 2020 cut-off channels. cut-off channels, and the cut-off channels were demonetized because of reused content, repetitive content. There were many, like, there weren't

[03:57] any problems. Let's go. A podcast appears out of nowhere, like in 2000 26 a podcast suddenly appears and nobody is editing it, only the podcast itself is posting the content from that podcast. There's only that one person, that one

[04:12] channel, making videos in that particular way. Here's the thing: if I, Gabriel, go there and cut that channel, it won't be bad for me. It won't be bad for me, because there's still not much content. There will be an official channel,

[04:25] booming, but it's the only one producing content, and only my channel is for editing. even though it doesn't have anything associated with it, that channel will monetize. But it's only a 3,000 channels start showing cuts of that content. So that original content will have

[04:41] like 1000 channels, 2000, 3000 channels posting the same content. Then you will fall into the category of used content. So you can even start monetizing a channel with long-form content, right? Videos that are 15, 10, 20, or 30 minutes long are the ones that

[04:53] pay the most. It's not worth making money selling shorts, okay? I'm going to be completely honest here. Selling shorts is a way to earn extra income. If you want to make money with shorts abroad, okay? Because it pays very little, man. It pays

[05:05] very, very, very little. Even I'm not advising you to create a dark channel here in Brazil anymore, because it pays very little, very little compared to what it pays little, very little compared to what it pays abroad. It's literally peanuts.

[05:18] abroad. It's literally peanuts. It's just how it is, it's reality. For me, if I were to focus solely on recording videos for practice, you know? If my focus was "no, let's get to the practical part," I wouldn't record "let's get

[05:32] to the practical part," I wouldn't record "let's get to the practical part" videos. Simple as that. Anyway, let's come back here. The cut channel demonetizes. Channel A demonetizes. What a wonderful question! What is an A-channel? Channel A is one of those

[05:44] automated things where you press a button and it generates a channel, which then generates video. Dude, I really hope they demonetize this kind of content, because it's garbage. It's rubbish. It's lazy, this is no place for you. This is no place for it. YouTube is no place for

[05:58] lazy people, okay? You can see that most of these people who have been producing content since way back, who are now huge, who are multimillionaires, even billionaires, know one thing: what they have in common is consistency.

[06:13] They never stopped working. They didn't stop working. lazy person who just wants to press a button and automate your entire channel, forget it, and automate your entire channel, forget it, forget it, forget about it, man. He forgets. It's

[06:27] easier if you earn money by watching videos, you know? You can you'll only earn R$10. That's it, go ahead and earn R$10. But if you want to work, if you want to focus, if you want to maintain it, learn, learn to edit,

[06:42] learn to make a cool title, to watch YouTube—man, watching YouTube is the main requirement for having a YouTube channel, even consume YouTube content. And sometimes I think there are people who don't understand this

[06:59] only as people who want to make money, rats, you know? Rats. Oh, you're to TikTok. Make money on YouTube. Let's order, bro. Okay, there are these people and there 's not these people I want to talk about here. I want to communicate with the people

[07:14] who want to grow on YouTube, who like YouTube, who, like, I mean, work, because the videos I like to edit require a lot of time, but I do like editing.

[07:27] I like editing, but I don't like spending hours editing. I prefer to stay here talking to you all. Finally, as I've already said, there are two channels. So, the Finally, as I've already said, there are two channels. So, the channel is 100% monetized, and you click the button and it

[07:39] automates everything and the video comes out, dude, forget it, forget YouTube, forget monetization, forget everything, okay? And if you have any email addresses linked, forget it, So no, don't be lazy, okay? This whole business of making

[07:52] easy money, being too lazy to press a button, making money. Oh, wow, something I saw the other day, man, the guy sent it on WhatsApp, I do detail because he might be here, he might understand, but then the guy

[08:04] presses a button and then you monetize your channel, basically you create several tabs and Some people sell this stuff, and some people buy it. I think YouTube kills everyone. YouTube isn't stupid, it's not foolish. Sometimes he acts

[08:19] crazy. Anyway, speaking of crazy stuff, I'm seeing a lot of people with crazy stuff, I'm seeing a lot of people with channels who call themselves top-tier, you know? channels who call themselves top-tier, you know? It appears and all that, and is demonetized

[08:33] as if there were no reason for it. Man, I think that's very difficult. I think it's for a dark channel, where you don't appear on camera, where you do everything haphazardly , YouTube shouldn't even have to give you an explanation anyway, you know? It's

[08:47] like, oh, your channel is... you're not even you know? So you won't be monetizing. [laughter] That could be the explanation. seriously, sometimes they forget that, like, it's

[09:01] not enough to just appear in the video to monetize it. There are several really annoying little rules that you wouldn't even imagine. There was also a guy I saw because there have been a lot of videos of people complaining about YouTube and

[09:13] demonetization, and look, that's great, they should complain, you know? Keep talking want to talk badly in this video; I want to explain the various forms of demonetization that exist. In short, it was a guy reacting to a video of a guy who lost his

[09:27] to a video of a guy who lost his monetization, and he appears in the videos and so on. Dude, I glanced at the guy's channel , I already understood why his account was demonetized, but he thinks it's because of

[09:39] his last video and that's fine. We really can't be sure because it 's actually a gigantic robot that's located somewhere in the United States, I don't know where YouTube is, or wherever , it's a huge computer. So if

[09:54] you're going to communicate with this gigantic computer, with a lot of information. So you're really not going to get any direct information, okay? That's the reality. Today, YouTube is a multi-billion dollar market. So we

[10:06] multi-billion dollar market. So we 're just mere mortals, okay? We really are. And million, 10 million as well? Not today, but not in the past. The person who had 1 not today. Someone with 1 million subscribers is like, wow, the

[10:19] Google people, right? Wow, man, you have to send another plaque for 1 million. Man, this reduce the size. That's how YouTube is today. Not back in the day, man, you're worth a million! What are we going to do for the guy who hits 1 million? [laughs]

[10:33] Let's have a party, let's do a rewind, right? I used to have a YouTube channel, it was way cooler in my opinion, money today, and we're still making money here.

[10:46] Finally, there are also those people who demonetize the channel, they show up on the channel, they say: "Hey, my channel got demonetized, I think it's because of this, this, this, okay? Yeah, it's like a normal channel." But I hit him, I laid eyes on the

[11:00] man, the guy's content is just smut, dude." family-friendly, but especially with people and channels that get a

[11:15] lot of views. If you get, like, let's say, if every video of yours gets 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 views, YouTube is watching you, looking at you, seeing Because there are a lot of advertisers, so there are a lot of companies putting a lot of money into

[11:28] your channel, so to speak, okay? Because in Brazil, a lot of money is... isn't a lot of not enough money. Because if you convert everything, everything that amounts to a lot of money in everything, everything that amounts to a lot of money in Brazil, know that it's actually very little. It sucks. It

[11:41] sucks. But we all have to look at everything in dollars, okay? So when you see R$10,000, you have to understand that R$10,000 is not even 2,000. And 2000 for a person who earns in dollars or American currency is not even R$ 2,000. For him,

[11:55] 2,000 for us. Like, you have R$2,000, what do you do with R$2,000 today? hardly does anything. [laughs] Anyway, when we lost the

[12:10] monetization from Cortes Bilionários, you know what we did? I didn't spend my time crying on YouTube. It sucks. I know, it sucks. And look, I didn't have, I didn't have a dad, I didn't have a

[12:23] mom. I paid rent, I paid people too, I paid for everything. I had, let's get down to business here, something that wasn't generating a single cent of addiction, it wasn't even monetized, I was earning R$ 50,000 there, R$ 20,000 per month, right? In the end, I think it was R$

[12:37] 45,000 in 50 days. Well, man, I'd never seen so much money on YouTube before, and then suddenly it was demonetized too, it really sucked for me. But that's when I understood that we can't depend on AdSense, we can't

[12:50] depend on YouTube. If you have a channel, look, look, look, there's even a little commercial look. Stay alert on WhatsApp, everyone. Stay alert on WhatsApp. [laughs] I ca

[13:02] n't. I have to warn you. Ads, if you have a YouTube channel and all your revenue comes from AdSense, contact Fabia here on WhatsApp. We have the best solution for you. Man, that's very dangerous. It's

[13:16] very dangerous to rely on YouTube. Very, very, very, very. When Billionaire Rooms, we had some from Vcrox Valent, but compared to R$50,000 it wasn't And what did I do? I did everything I could, man. I

[13:32] did everything, absolutely everything. I just didn't do anything wrong. I started selling services; I looked for info products to sell in my videos, in the descriptions of my videos. I did advertising, I made videos, but let's not get down to business, I did a lot of

[13:45] videos, but let's not get down to business, I did a lot of things. And look how crazy, I managed it, I don't know if you, oh, oh, oh, how crazy, I lost the Cortillionaires' monestation opportunity to access the billionaire's quarters. I managed to provide services to some

[13:57] managed to provide services to some companies that you see every day, literally. That's amazing. That's amazing. Like, That's amazing. That's amazing. Like, a very large company. In this case,

[14:11] editing channel and I started editing a podcast for a company that's out there in the market, which is red. [laughs] It was kind of a mess you go back in time, you'll discover what kind of company this is and how

[14:27] much it has grown, and how much it has grown. Finally, I also worked with loot, right? That's when for the Corts Podcast, which was Luts' editing channel back in the day. Luts' editing channel back in the day. So, 10 plus 10, 3 + 10, right? So it will be

[14:40] So, 10 plus 10, 3 + 10, right? So it will be 10, 20, 8 o'clock, 8 o'clock at night. So, counting from there, it will be around 10 o'clock or later, and I'll be back driving. We're sleep. Several other podcasts as well, people

[14:54] who participated in podcasts, people would go on podcasts and also get in touch with us to do the editing. And then monetization returned. So we services. We got really good at

[15:06] selling haircut services, doing haircuts for other people. And the monetization of cortilários returned, and there was monetization of cortox val. It was then, it was at that moment. Wow, I lost my monetization! So

[15:21] seeing clearly the day I missed the demonstration. It was a sad thing for everyone, but we turned it around, you know? It was one, I didn't just sit there crying on YouTube. Hey, a deal just came in! I didn't just sit around

[15:34] crying on YouTube, did I? And today, if I were to lose monetization from Bora pra prática, it would be due to that, right? This happened 5 years ago. Like, uh, normal. Like, when I recorded a video back

[15:49] in 2024, two years ago, when I came back talking about shorts and college haircuts, I got a strike, man. I got a strike here on Bora para for practice. And you have no idea why, man. You can't even imagine.

[16:04] idea why, man. You can't even imagine. I took one of you. There are people watching the live stream. I took one of you. There are people watching the live stream. How many people are there? Bora pra prática has already received a strike for? What do you think? Let's get

[16:17] to the practical part. I make videos that are literally teaching you guys. It wasn't a coup, okay? like spam, like, oh, miraculous promise. That wasn't it. Strike. The miraculous promise. That wasn't it. Strike. The strike was because I taught how to download

[16:33] Yeah, I got a strike because I taught people how to download videos from YouTube in the tutorial that's in my training course on Hotmart. drop this here too, I'll teach people how to download it. It did

[16:48] n't work. I got a strike, and I'm stuck with a restriction there for who knows how many with a restriction there for who knows how many days. In short, YouTube is days. In short, YouTube is crazy, okay? And I have, I don't, I have

[17:00] comments, I'll be right there, stay tuned, okay? channels that lose monetization are the generic channels. What is a generic channel? In my opinion, okay? I 'm not an expert, but I do understand a little bit about

[17:13] YouTube, just so you know. A generic channel is that guy who joins YouTube just guy who joins TikTok just because TikTok is making money. He's the kind of guy who does watch YouTube. He just said, "I need to make some money here, I'm screwed,

[17:26] you know?" Those channels where the guy does things half-assed, like, screw it, on the internet, so much, so much, so much , so much, so much, so much, so much , so much. So, before you start producing content for YouTube,

[17:39] watch the free videos, man. It's good to watch free videos. I... I... I did any courses. No course whatsoever. I really wanted to buy those courses from Primo Rico back then buy those courses from Primo Rico back then , and from Pedro Supert, and all those other

[17:52] have R$ 1,000. I didn't have R$ 2,000. Do you know what I used to do? I would go to the guy's YouTube channel and watch everything. Then I'd buy the guy's course, it had everything I'd already watched, and I'd get pissed off . That's why I don't teach my courses that way anymore

[18:06] watch all of my YouTube videos, you won't have the same access Ultimately, you have to get good at watching YouTube videos, and those generic channels out there, like, just because there are 3,000 channels creating the same thing, it's a

[18:19] creating a history channel, there's nothing wrong with that. Just today a video popped up, my dad was in the living room on YouTube, because YouTube is everywhere around here, everyone knows about YouTube. I was

[18:33] on YouTube, and then a history channel popped up . A history channel of mine, in Portuguese, has appeared. Video posted, I think, three weeks ago, with over 1 million views. And dude, I think it's monetized, right? To be

[18:47] honest, I felt like clicking on the video. I don't know, I do n't know. It might be, it doesn't voted in or not. I wouldn't create a history channel today because there are already so many history channels, and I'm going to talk about this, look, I'll just finish this point,

[19:01] inauthentic, right? These are channels that you create without giving a damn, literally you create them without giving a damn. And speaking of history channels, I don't think I

[19:15] history channels, because I created a history channel too, and I think it's interesting. But that's the thing . When I created the story channel, I created it by modeling, it was based on those ideas from Fareste, from Fareste Cabuco over there in the

[19:29] US. And then I saw that it wasn't working out, you know? Damn it , there were so many other channels like that. And then I tried to go down a new path, you know? I'm not going to make a

[19:44] ideas out there, and I'm already on that path. I'm going to start releasing all my time to be creating dark channels like that , I don't have time, you know? Now channel ideas with you. I had the idea to create a history channel, a channel about

[19:57] a history channel, a channel about medieval history. Try it out and see if it works for you, okay? If it works, come back here [laughs] and I want 10%. Joke. I don't want if it works. But I thought it was cool, man. I'd put on a sort of soundtrack. I'm

[20:12] n't want to keep talking about demonetization, about demonetization. have to understand the idea that content creators, people who work with YouTube, people who work with video, dude, it's all about creation. Create, create

[20:27] new things. Creating will always be about that, creating new things. Finally, I came up with an idea in song. I saw a song, and it was like, I connected the dots. I already had a medieval history." Now, instead of being an Indian, [laughs] a

[20:41] North American Indian, it's going to be a medieval knight, I don't know, you can put a dragon Anyway, put those stories out there, make up medieval bedtime stories, [laughs] and go away, go make videos, man. Did

[20:56] you understand? Because in the end I came to that conclusion. I came to that conclusion. We came to this conclusion that left me thinking: "Dude, what am I? What am I? Am I an artist? Am I a businessman? Am I a

[21:08] YouTuber? What am I?" I said, "Dude, I'm nothing, I make videos and videos, you don't do anything else." You make videos, you don't create YouTube channels , you don't create thumbnails, you make videos. What is video? Video is all

[21:22] you guys do, you know? You know when you render and post? It's a video. And that. That's what video. The more videos you make, the better, okay? But always try to give her a fresh maid, you know? It's good that you go there and see that the niche is doing well, make the channel

[21:37] exactly the same, copy and paste, and it works, man, it's great. Who doesn't like making money, man, who doesn't? Look, I'll tell you, I really hope people continue to succeed, copying, pasting [laughs] the channel, okay?

[21:52] that lucky streak of monetizing a channel, you know, that you can't monetize, and make some money, and that money, ah, gives them a breather in life. That's great. It's great to make money. Your video is recorded. It

[22:05] 's not recorded, man. It's live. Want some insight? insight? 10:12 PM. February 15, 2026 at 10:12 PM. There must be a lot of people at Carnival right now , right? And we're here talking

[22:20] be talking only about creation, but now we're going to take the cool stuff lazy people. Normally, demonetized channels will now come back online, they will come back online . I hope you guys actually do a reaction video , okay? But it will go in. Tell

[22:33] people to send in their questions during the live stream , how smart of you, right? Yeah, send a good question my way. This is for sending in questions, guys. You guys have a good doubt, right? Okay, but you didn't come here to say if the channel is monetized, or if it renders in full HD or

[22:49] 4K. I want to know if YouTube is taking down A's channel. Damn, YouTube is taking down channels every day, man. A channel for people who look like people, a channel for people who have to raise, who raise a cow, and unintentionally the

[23:03] guy showed the cow dying in the video and lost the channel. It happens to me. That's how YouTube works, it identifies a stop, it goes , you didn't even see where it came from. And speaking only about demonetization, right? Because sometimes you lose track of the channel, okay? And look, there are so many

[23:18] stories about big YouTubers, one of the big ones is Felipe Castanhari from the Nostalgia channel, who has a series on Netflix and is still around today, right? He was one of those cases where he almost lost his channel. He has to make a big deal out of it on the

[23:32] almost lost his channel because of Fox. Why? Because he kept taking Fox. Why? Because he kept taking bits and pieces from movies, music series, everything, and making a channel out of it. My channel is high risk, extremely high risk. One

[23:47] of the channels that went demonetized was a channel that takes movie scenes, movie scenes, and plays them. I'm telling you, I'm telling you , don't monetize it. The channel is still lose his channel because he would get, I don't know, I think three strikes,

[24:02] you lose the channel, right? And I think he already took it, man, he posted it online, it was a big deal. He had to, man, the guys showed up at Fox and told the guy to sort things out, and they did. But things aren't like that anymore

[24:16] man? These days it's easier not to create a channel where you post movie scenes, okay? I've already tried doing a channel recap, right? I made it to the end. Then I said, "Wow, we're going to have to use a scene from a movie, right? [laughs]

[24:30] Brazilian ingenuity here to monetize this?" Sure, you can politicize that, but you'll have to spend a lot of time editing the videos, and even then, if you grow a lot, I think YouTube starts to look at you more closely, you know? He's

[24:44] starting to see what you're doing up close. And I don't think so. YouTube, what exactly is YouTube? YouTube, in this case, is the famous artificial intelligence that we use,

[24:57] right? But it's even a topic for us, a topic for others and others and others and others and So, we have two types of channel creators here: the lazy ones and the hardworking ones. So, the worker will be rewarded, but not, you know, like with

[25:13] promises of one month or two. If you're just starting out on YouTube and you want results in a month, two months, three months, three months, forget about YouTube. Forget YouTube.

[25:26] One year, man. At least one year. You're just starting out. You're just starting out, don't have just any practice videos on YouTube, but I'm not going to recommend anyone here. It sucks that it's not possible to recommend it. Hey, I'm going to say something here that's not on the

[25:40] agenda, okay? But it's about the people who produce content on YouTube.