My comic is pg from the get go, so I havn't butchered it to get ad rev, but the stats are still suffering too. I'm not sure if the butchering has had effects on your comics, but I know that isn't a reason for mine.
I usually can get the 40k min with 4 updates(Or I get really close) but I have planned 6 updates this month (and have already done 3 of them) and I'm not even past 17k PVs.... so yeah I'd say things are looking bleak for me actually qualifying for credit this month. And this was with doing cross promos and stuff to help drum up views.
I'm sad cause I finally qualified for money with my little comic, and now it's just slipping away, even tho I've had months of stats similar to the ~40k with 4 updates, suddenly it just drops and now I'm probably looking at more like 30k with 6 updates
I guess if I can't qualify for ad credit, then I can just give up on that and stop busting my butt to make all this extra content tho... It just feels like notifications don't even work cause I barely or don't get my sub count in views (Yet I'm sitll having my normal sub growth, so that means new people are finding my comic) so have that many of my usual readers just stopped reading?