Views are meaningless if your video is demonetized(no ads). Also, these days you can't be monetized on YT unless you have a certain size viewership.
The adpocolypse all goes back to the Wall Street Journal hit piece article and it's all part of a corporate media need to take the "You" out of Youtube because corporate media giants don't want shoestring-budget individuals successfully competing against their billion dollar media empires. For every minute you spend on Palumbo, Goodrum, or whoever, that's a minute that you are not watching CNN, ABC, FOX, or whoever. Yes, even "conservative" Fox is
very much against the "You" in Youtube.
Along with all that's mentioned by other people above my post, Youtube also takes the incentive out of creating videos by randomly demonetizing videos, then "allowing" you to contest the demonetization but never getting back to you(demonetized limbo). It's like dealing with a corrupt third world government. A lot of random and often selective enforcement of hazy rules as well as unaccountability for their company's actions.
Pro-free-speech video hosting sites
https://www.bitchute.com/ http://www.minds.com