YouTube’s recent ad sharing and revenue policy changes is causing problems for pro wrestling-themed content channels on the streaming video site. One such channel that is experiencing issues now is the Wrestling Shorts channel, which has 42,000 subscribers and a total of over 2.7 million views.
According to the artist who runs the channel, which produces wrestling-themed parody videos, YouTube’s recent policy changes the channel’s videos are earning a lot less revenue, despite getting a significant amount of page views. The channel also posted the following tweet:
Here’s an example of how bad it has gotten. you can now support Wrestling Shorts here: https://t.co/xYh9YTxHWl pic.twitter.com/qMB3SwksAt
— Wrestling Shorts (@WrestlingShorts) May 28, 2017
The channel has also started this Patreon page to try and offset some of the revenue losses due to the YouTube changes. You can also check out one of the channel’s videos below.
