The tiered system as begun! No this isnt Overwatch its pornhub!
For those who don't know we creators get a little pay every month from the hub for our free content from the advertising revenue we generate. This has changed to a quarterly payment that now has various conditions. For those interested in joining up please use my referral link:
https://www.pornhub.com/model/referrals?referral=49844451
The higher the tier the more you get paid presumably. To qualify for a tier you must be in the rankings for that tier during that quarter (the year will be divided into 4 quarters each lasting 3 months). During that quarter you must also upload enough qualifying videos to qualify for tiers.. Using my account as an example my pornhub ranking is 2034 as I write this (hopefully goes up soon). This rank puts me in the 1-10,000 tiers bronze and silver. During this quarter I have uploaded 2-3 videos (only videos over 7 minutes qualify to this count). This means I will be in the bronze tier (which is almost the lowest tier). If my rank was to jump up to under 1000 I'll be in the silver tier...or I could upload 6 or more videos to also qualify for this tier. In order to qualify for any tier you must upload at least one video of a minimum of 7 minutes during the course of 4 months otherwise you won't be put into a tier and you won't get paid! (they were obviously looking at my account and had a board meeting to figure out how to make me make more videos hahaha). Anyway I hope that all made sense! Maybe I'll make a youtube video about it at some point...
Many people don't like change, especially when it effects them financially. It causes confusion and fear, it doesn't help when the information available doesn't make it easy to figure out how changes will effect them. It would have also been nice to get a little explanation about how and why but oh well. I'm hoping that payments will be similar amounts just less often which is sad but hopefully that means less transaction fees which might mean more money? I am surprised a change like this didn't come sooner, compare the pornhub program to youtube partnership and the history it has had changing terms for creators and you start to see similarities. Part of the change I guess it to promote more frequent uploads by users. It's also a big incentive to work your way up the ranking. I imagine pornhub has had to do a lot since the big cull of videos back during the scandal they had, paypal, visa and mastercard stepping away probably did a lot of damage. Go watch the netflix documentary "Money shot" to learn more.
Anyway hope that helps at least one person understand and give some reassurance