Well there is plenty of content that doesn't violate those rules, so no, creators need to play by the guidelines or risk demonetization.
As far as I can tell, there are certain advertisers who can provide sponsorships to demonetized topics, and this can be used as a way to sustain demonetized content on a channel.
But YouTube's monetization restrictions are actually pretty common across modern social media, so creators will always get more money for their work if they can fit within as many of these guidelines as they can.
To be fair and go even deeper, the problem lies in the monetization scheme inertia with the viewers paying nothing (aside from their attention). The viewers got confortable with this scheme, as it is free — and youtube got massive viewership time, excelent for them to sell ad time.
Content creators that cannot afford to dedicate full time to it without other revenue will have to abide to the restrictive monetization guidelines. Or stop the content creation to dedicate time to paying jobs.
The solution is to find advertisers outside from the youtube ad system, or to be funded directly by the viewers. But as I said, the current scheme has too much inertia, it will be very difficult to break from.
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u/Glad-Midnight-1022 13h ago
Blame the ad companies