It has been more than four years since I gave an update on my YouTube career. I am sure everyone has been waiting with bated breath to hear about my progress. But more seriously, while my progress is mostly of personal interest for me, I do think that what I said in 2021 is still true: the idea of the internet or social media or "content creation" being an easy gravy train that people can jump on continues to be a receding mirage. Although I have been more successful than I hoped back at that time, I am still not making money from YouTube.

At the time, I had a total of 8 public watch hours. Since sometime in 2022, 8 or 10 public watch hours is my daily average. In fact, since 400 hours in the past 365 days is needed for monetization, I check my statistics every day to see if I have gotten enough hours that day to equal that (4000/365, or a little less than 11 hours a day). At one time last year, I had well over 4000 hours. But also, not enough subscribers. Back in

YouTube Shorts are a format on YouTube, showing short content. Originally under one minute in length, the current time limit of a short is 3 minutes. These numbers are liable to change and might not be current at the time of reading. Shorts are also shown in a "portrait" orientation, with about twice as much height as width.

YouTube Shorts are basically a way to respond to the popularity of TikTok (and Instagram Reels), showing short videos for short attention spans.

"Yes, beans, because while I may be a coffee snob I am also a realist who trusts the science."
—me

"Coffee snob(noun): [One who has] a true epicurean appreciation for the fine art of all things coffee. This is far and above the myraid [sic] of lemmings who ritually congregate at the local Starbucks, trying like hell to appear hip and trendy."
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