Somehow I feel that I am failing to communicate properly, as your comment demonstrates. I said "If a channel is earning, then it has met the quota." And then you responded by telling me about a situation where a channel might stop earning, and I fail to see how what you said had anything to do with what I said. Which leads me to believe that you did not comprehend what I said, due to my failure to properly express myself.
When I was going to school, the word "IS" was considered a "Present Tense" word. So when I said that if a channel "IS" earning, I felt that I conveyed the proper tense to qualify the statement I was making that if, in the present tense, a channel is earning money (in the present tense) then it is common sense that the channel has met the quota to earn. Evidently, in the modern education system, the word "IS" no longer is considered a present tense word and is now considered a future tense word or possibly a past tense word, which is why you did not comprehend what I said and talked about a future tense sistuation in which a channel, that was earning (past tense), might stop earning (future tense), due to youtube policy changes; which had nothing to at all with what I said.
I apologize for not making myself more comprehensible to the modern reader.