YouTube embezzles so much, they pay channels owners less than minimum wage, in fact, sometimes less than $2.00 an hour. Channels that produce many videos and get the views, are being stolen by Youtube every day by the trillions. What they do pay is about 1% of channel revenue, which ends up being under $1.00 an hour in many cases As they are watching the criminals get caught one at a time, Youtube, is still embezzling at the speed of lightening.