Actually, you can make real money if your YouTube channel gets millions or billions of views. Here is a link to annual income of top 25 YouTube stars in 2013, #25 made $1 million #1 made $12 million.

The 25 Highest Earning Youtube Stars | Celebrity Net Worth

I have a friend who started doing travel videos many years ago as a hobby. It's now a full time job that pays him several hundred thousand per year plus most of his travel is comped. A charmed life for sure.

I don’t know Skip Smith. But I have watched a number of TV YouTube videos, and his are not boring, that’s why I watch. He likes living in The Villages, he doesn’t run it down. He appears to be doing just fine, I don’t think he’s really trying to hit that $7.00/month plateau via YouTube to make a difference in his lifestyle.

For every person that makes 100K on Youtube there are 5,000,000 who don't make a dime. Those people are very rare. My hat is off to those who can indeed make a living off of their videos. For myself I'm comfortable with what I'm currently taking in.

Skip asked for subscribers on one of his videos. He did not come on here to do it. Someone who saw his video came on here. I see nothing wrong with his request for more subscribers, and he was upfront about the reason for it. He clearly stated that he needed 1000 subscribers for his channel to be monetized. He puts a lot of time and effort into, if he makes a couple bucks, so what??

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More power to Skip and his channel. I'm glad it keeps him busy and if he can make a few bucks then great. But, one poster said if he didn't get 1,000 subscribers he would lose his channel. That is where this thing went off the rails.