38k Follower AI Creator Reveals X's Brutal Payout Reality
LudovicCreator · x · 2026-08-08
A creator with 38,000 followers shares their struggles with monetization on X. Despite posting daily for three years and landing an Amazon Prime TV show gig through their AI content, they failed to reach the minimum payout threshold in 7 out of their last 8 payouts.
The author points out that X's upcoming 'Original Content Rewards' program has extreme requirements: 500,000 Home Timeline impressions from verified users in 90 days, 500 verified followers, and active Premium status. While the intention to weed out scrapers is correct, pegging everything to 'impressions'—a metric creators cannot control—means genuine creators still struggle to benefit.
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