No, I don’t need money. I’ve no campaign needing volunteers. No petition signing. My cat’s not dying. (Actually, she is, but she’s taking so long to do it, we’re wondering if she’ll ever really do so.)

No, my request is for a single click of a mouse.

This morning, the ever-lovely Do No Evil people dropped this in my inbox:

Under the new eligibility requirements announced today, your YouTube channel, LouieLudwig, is no longer eligible for monetization because it doesn’t meet the new threshold of 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. As a result, your channel will lose access

to all monetization tools and features associated with the YouTube Partner Program on February 20, 2018 unless you surpass this threshold in the next 30 days. Accordingly, this email serves as 30 days notice that your YouTube Partner Program terms are terminated.

Because I currently have 380 subscribers and people only watched 800 hours of my videos last year, I’m soon to lose the privilege of pestering people with adverts on about a quarter of my videos.

This will be a severe blow, as YouTube ads have netted me a stunning $19 over the last decade. The loss of two bucks a year will certainly put me in the poor house.

Truly, I don’t give two spits about the dough, but Google/YouTube does weight advert-loaded videos more heavily in searches, so getting kicked off the “Partner” program will result in much lower view numbers.

If you are a YouTube (or Google or gmail) user, please hit “subscribe” on my channel:

https://youtube.com/user/LouieLudwig

m.youtube.com/…

I understand this is pretty unimportant in the scheme of things, but this community has been very kind to me, supporting my creative efforts on video. Thanks for subscribing.

Recent vids:

And my all-time most-watched video, which got over 175,000 views, 1,000 likes, and notice from James Fallows, PBS and political reporters as far away as Sweden:

So far, between kossacks and GF’s Facebook group, a hundred new subscribers today. 500 to go in 30 days. Thanks, all. I feel ridiculous doing this.