ok lol about a year ago, in July 2016, I made this: It now has 1,100 views and 40 likes. Even better, I am profiting out of it, and it's the most liked video on my channel (old). shook.
That's actually completely false, you can monetize your videos no matter view count/subscriber count.
You need at least 10,000 views to monetize your videos. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72857?hl=en
Thats channel views though, so a channel with more then 10,000 views total could get paid 1 cent if they made a video with 10 views on it. It was a joke anyways, not really a big deal.
Why would you monetize still if doesn't have 10k views lol, you are just putting some random ad in to make people suffer