YouTube 'creators' fret over impact of new child protection rules

Leave the Internet alone.

This is the problem when you choose to rely on Youtube as your sole source of income. It simply isn't a clever idea. Even if you can build and maintain a high subscriber count, it only takes one mistake for your subscriber numbers to plummet, which will seriously impact your revenue. Youtube content creation should be a hobby, not the main source of your income.

I understand and support Youtube's decision here. Targetted ads are a menace, and ads that target children are about as bad as it gets. Especially in this day and age where parents get too lax with their smartphones and leave those accessible to children, who can very easily learn passwords and therefore access bank accounts which they then use to buy whatever they want (Every time I hear stories about this sort of thing I facepalm internally). Non-targetted ads still provide a revenue, albeit not as high, but if your subscriber count is high enough then it won't really matter. If you insist upon using Youtube as your main income source, then you'll have to work harder to increase subscriber numbers if you really need to compensate for the lower ad revenue. Then again, if you're earning $100k a month from Youtube then this change shouldn't affect you at all unless you're insanely financially irresponsible.