I did it. It only took forever three years, four months, and 16 days... but I am at last monetized on YouTube!
I think it's actually impressive to have been able to get monetized that quickly, but it felt like so long and so much work. (SO much video editing)...
First I thought getting 4000 watch hours in a 365-day period would be hard. But then a couple of my videos did really well and I knocked that out of the park.
So then getting 1000 subscribers became such. a. grind. There aren't really any good ways to get more subscribers than to make good content that is search friendly. Oh and by guilting your family and friends into subscribing on your birthday.
But now it's done. And my channel brings me 1s of dollars per day. And I love it.