YouTube has lost the plot: A Hot Air Balloon flight over countryside

Like many people on steemit. I too have a YouTube channel.

I've been happy to post my videos on the platform not for monetary gain but just to show another side of life. I never saw it as a job or money making proposition.

I've had a YouTube channel since 2009 but only posted there occasionally. More so in the last year.

My videos are just simple like this one, mostly educational and hopefully fun to watch.

I don't swear or try to shock the viewers but along with many 1,000's of others my channel will be demonetized because I have less than 1,000 subscribers.

My watch time is well over 11,000 hours per month but that isn't good enough apparently?

The pittance that YouTube paid is being withdrawn and no doubt our content will be deindexed or dropped in the search rankings.

So eventually the channel will die like all the rest. That's pretty sad because the core of YouTube is the community, most of whom never made a bean but just enjoyed the interaction.

I never did it for the money but it did help me to upgrade my camera equipment and I did learn a lot about video and audio production.

I was happy with that. So it's not a total loss.

All websites it seems to me, have a finite lifespan.

YouTube is coming to a crossroads and they have decided to change direction.

That's fine. I wish them well.

Luckily we have Dtube and I will be hosting my video content there from now on.

Hope you enjoy this peaceful little hot air balloon flight over Cambridgeshire.

It was an anniversary present from our children in 2013.
It will now live forever on the steem blockchain.

Goodbye YouTube it's been an experience.

Have you been demonetized? Let me know what you think in the comments.