YouTube - YouTube in 2020

This is why you install Adblock.

And before you say anything, any content creator that's serious about funding themselves is going to have a Patreon or some other method of donating directly to them because it's well established at this point that YouTube themselves are unreliable at best when it comes to giving them anything.

The only ones making anything off of Ad Revenue is YT themselves and frankly It's probably nothing compared to what they make farming data off of you for advertisers.

Youtube, de-monetizing so many of their users that the monetized users are forced to have extra ads.