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I recently posted a video and tried to enable monetization and instead of just being a green icon with a white dollar sign like usual, it's a green icon with a white question mark:
When I hover over it, it says "under review" but there's really nothing to review...and other videos of mine didn't have this. They just went right to the normal green icon with white dollar sign. I found YT's monetization troubleshooting guide, which is a page that asks "what icon do you see?" but this particular one isn't one of the icon choices they list.
So what exactly does this particular icon mean when it says "under review"? My understanding was a video was only under review once you provide more information after YT flags it for "further proof of commercial rights" or whatever.
What's funny is I monetized another video recently which, although I think it's complete fair use, has about 1-2 minute's worth of gameplay footage. Whereas this one that got the question mark is just a video of me, albiet with a small public domain graphic and short public domain sound effect edited in (and I could prove it...if YT would ask me for the proof instead of just making it hang there as "under review"...).
Any ideas?
When I hover over it, it says "under review" but there's really nothing to review...and other videos of mine didn't have this. They just went right to the normal green icon with white dollar sign. I found YT's monetization troubleshooting guide, which is a page that asks "what icon do you see?" but this particular one isn't one of the icon choices they list.
So what exactly does this particular icon mean when it says "under review"? My understanding was a video was only under review once you provide more information after YT flags it for "further proof of commercial rights" or whatever.
What's funny is I monetized another video recently which, although I think it's complete fair use, has about 1-2 minute's worth of gameplay footage. Whereas this one that got the question mark is just a video of me, albiet with a small public domain graphic and short public domain sound effect edited in (and I could prove it...if YT would ask me for the proof instead of just making it hang there as "under review"...).
Any ideas?