Good Creators earn a better income from patreon than google
Fixed that for you :-)
But you're right... When I first started in the YPP I was earning such good money that I decided to go full-time. I was making about $4K per month with only about 80K subs and half a million or so views a month. This was, of course, when membership of the YPP was by "invitation only".
Since then I've seen my income continuously eroded by YouTube's own lust for revenues and things such as a couple of adpocalypses etc.
Now I earn under $1K per month, despite having more subs, more views and more videos.
If it wasn't for my support over on Patreon I'd be back to flipping burgers.
Also, when I started YT *valued* all of its creators. They listened, they fixed problems and they were there to help if things went wrong. Today, they're only interested in helping those who have at least 10 million subscrbers or are tied to the MSM.
Just look at the situation Louis Rossmann finds himself in right now. A creator with 2 million subscribers got two community strikes because his company made an app that allows people to follow people on multiple social media platforms without having to subscribe directly. Louis is also the guy behind the "Right to Repair" movement and he is a very ethical, honest and worthy individual. However, YT doesn't like people that don't sing only from their corporate hymn book and so he's been whacked hard.
Then there's that 3D printer channel that YT demonetized for allegedly including videos on how to 3D print firearms (which they didn't by the way). When the owner of the channel announced that he'd found sponsorship to make up the lost YT earnings, they simply deleted his entire channel. He was innocent of the allegations they made against him.
Meanwhile, a very large creator called sssniperwolf was able to get away with doxing someone and posting videos of minors in sexually compromising circumstances -- they got nothing more than a "temporary" demonetization. Even that was only for one of their channels until the public outrage forced YT's hand to demontize all her channels -- but likely only for a couple of weeks.
Money talks in the halls of YouTube and it is about time they changed the name to CorpTube because there's no longer much room for "you" in it.
Now that small to medium-sized creators have built the platform into a virtual monopoly, YT is happy to kick them to the curb and focus only on the big earners.