Obvious clickbait: individual videos do not need to reach 10,000 views; only a channel itself needs to hit 10,000 or more lifetime views.
Clickbait will always be clickbait. Hopefully the OP realizes the wrong in his ways and edits the title.
I thought the value of 1000 views was a fraction of a cent. Surely they aren't going to send a check for less than a dollar?
There's a payment threshold of $100 before you can cash out. This is an adsense thing and applies for the Google website adverts too.
I've searched and found that 1000 views seems to range anywhere between $0.80 to $8. It must be part of some mystery YouTube algorithm.
So this will help prevent channels from stealing content and re-uploading it as their own.
That's an interesting point.
Isn't that the easiest way to get 10,000 views?
Does this mean that they will not be showing advertisements on my personal uploads? That sounds pretty great!?
Sounds like the "rules" will just be content creators that fit the political motives of YouTube? I consider myself progressive, but I think it's still odd that channels that offer different views or question progressive views still deserve equal treatment by YT.
If by "the political motives of YouTube" you mean "the brand identities of their advertisers", then yes. If Old Spice or whoever doesn't want their deodorant sold by alt-right vloggers, there's no way for YouTube to make money from their videos. Capitalism at work, I suppose.