Bilibili Monetization 2026: 1,000 Follower Rule, Payouts & The Catch

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I Tried To Figure Out If Bilibili Pays. It’s Weird.

I downloaded Bilibili at 2am last Tuesday because I saw a meme about it on Reddit.

“China YouTube” they said. “They’re paying creators now.”

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Figured I’d waste 20 minutes. Ended up wasting 2 hours.

Bilibili is old. Like 16 years old. Started with anime. My brother in India used to watch it for that. Now it’s got 376M MAU. That’s from their press release last month when they launched the English site.

I don’t even know why I cared. Maybe just FOMO.

The money part

Okay so requirements. This is where I got confused.

GadgetsNow says 1,000 followers OR 100,000 views. I read that as 10,000 at first because my brain is broken. [5]

Money-wise it’s dumb. Ads are $2 RPM. That’s nothing. The new global thing is supposed to be $0.70 per 1k views but… is it? Bilibili hasn’t even put it on the English dashboard. I say “supposed to” because NDTV reported it and everyone’s just quoting NDTV. [2]

The real money is coins. People throw you virtual batteries. It’s like Twitch but in Chinese. Can be $0, can be a lot. No way to predict.

It’s still beta as hell

Here’s the part nobody’s saying out loud.

Bilibili’s marketing: “Easy sign up for Westerners!” Reality: lol no.

Saw this on X yesterday from a guy testing it:

“dashboard is live but translation is cooked 💀 payout setup took me an hour and im still not sure it worked. its youtube studio if youtube studio was made in 2009”

That’s more honest than any PR line. [1][3]

It’s not broken. It’s just… first week. You’re the guinea pig.

So should you?

I genuinely have no idea.

If you already make tech videos, just crosspost. Takes 20 minutes. Worst case: nothing. Best case: you’re early.

But don’t quit YouTube.

I’m gonna post 2 videos and forget about it for a month. If something happens I’ll update this.

Where I got this stuff** Read the GadgetsNow guides, NDTV piece, and scrolled X/Threads for 30 min to see what creators are actually saying. [1][2][5]

# Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4: Pixel 11 Support Arrives And Notification Intelligence Is Cooked

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4: Pixel 11 Support Arrives And Notification Intelligence Is Cooked 💀

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4 dropped over the weekend. Google also finally let Pixel 11 owners into the beta program yesterday, which is late but whatever.

Usually these late-cycle QPR builds are battery disasters. This one somehow made it to “Platform Stability” without turning the phone into a hand warmer. Miracle.

The first thing that hits after flashing is Notification Intelligence. Google just slapped “AI” on the old notification history and called it a dashboard. In theory it sorts your life. In practice it marks active family WhatsApp groups as “low priority spam” and pushes some random clothing brand promo to the top of the lock screen. To fix it you have to crawl through three sub-menus. Miss a toggle and you miss actual messages. Dumb.

There’s also a new Status Bar menu hiding in Settings > System. You can kill the mute and vibrate icons finally. They’ve been hogging space next to the battery for years.

Lock screen overlays are back too. Calendar and weather widgets that sit on the glass. Looked clean for five minutes until a notification rolled in and the text crashed right into the Spotify player. Classic.

The community vibe right now

Scrolling Reddit and X is weird. No one’s posting bricked device threads. People are just complaining less.

The standby drain from Beta 3 is gone. Phones make it to dinner now instead of dying at 3 PM. Animations are smoother. Bluetooth isn’t disconnecting in cars every 10 minutes. Instagram camera stopped crashing instantly.

That’s not normal for a QPR2 beta.

So should you install it?

For Pixel 11 and Fold owners this is the first beta available. Google locked the APIs so it won’t nuke apps.

Most people are still on Android 14 anyway. Update if you want, just don’t expect the new AI to know the difference between your mom and a Shein ad.

###Where this came from

Read the 9to5Google coverage, watched the Notification Intelligence breakdown on YouTube, and scrolled r/android_beta + X for 20 min to see what beta testers are actually saying. [1][2][3][4]

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