L ike many small time YouTube creators, I also got an email in January 2018 about changes to the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) regarding changes new threshold of 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. The revenue wasn't much but it was good to get some revenue from the little effort made in creating some videos. Unfortunately, my channel did not meet the subscriber threshold though watch time was alright. So, as per the new rules, monetization was set to be disabled. Read more »
Since there was some sort of gathering going ahead at his home, a companion from down the road amazed me when he made a trip for a half hour. It turns out he was getting away for a couple of minutes from his home, where his significant other was facilitating an infant shower for her niece. In the wake of offering my congrats on the expansion to his more distant family, I inquired as to whether he had yet been told the sexual orientation. He answered that it was to be a kid and that the guardians had picked the name, Mick. My neighbor is a kindred baseball fan, he was trusting that everybody may call the kid Mickey. He was concerned, however, that it could prompt unflattering epithets with respect to the renowned toon mouse, yet the mother would probably demand everybody simply calling him Mick. I commented that a name like that could rouse him to be an artist, which would be nearly on a par with being a baseball player. He could resemble Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, or Mick Jones...