Getting my channel monetized; YouTube moves the goalposts again 

Great congratulations your every video is very demanding and deserves lots of organic results.Thanks dear

Congrats on hitting the 3,000 watch hour milestone! That's a great accomplishment in one year! When it comes to YT monetization, there are actually 2 different tiers on the way to full monetization of a channel. The first tier requires 500 subs and 3,000 watch hours. This unlocks Membership, Supers & Shopping features on your channel. The second tier requires 1,000 subs and 4,000 watch hours which then enables you to earn money from ads on your videos. Since you reached the first milestone, those requirements are no longer displayed to you and now YT only displays the tracking info for the second milestone (1k subs/4k hours). So keep on going!

congrat to you

Sir, I don't know who you are, but your video showed up on my feed and I watched it. Congrats!

Good luck with it. Corporate greed is real and they’ll do whatever they can do squeeze more money but expect people to do more to earn their share. At least there’s hope. Instagram expects “content” with zero paying of the creators. Your channel is always interesting though, so thanks for doing what you do!

It's a hard grind. I'm trying to get to the first goal. I'm hoping one day I can get there. Keep pushing 💪

A couple of Clint Eastwood impression videos and you’ll smash the 4K watch hour requirement!

Do another video on the maverick.

It has always been 4,000 hours to get adsense monetization. The 3,000 is to unlock your viewers to send you money which youtube takes 50% of. They just added the lower level monetization this past year. Its also 4,000 hours for the last 365 days so you will also have hours drop off.