Dang, I really wish I could monetize on my videos. But if somebody sends a wave of views to your channel youtube may think its you buying views (that's how I can't monetize anymore). And you can lose monatazation.
What keeps you from monetizing your video? Every channel created can monetize each video uploaded.
YouTube partners pretty much all channels by now. To actually receive the money you need to link a google wallet or stuff like that to your Account.
By monetizing the video you will allow ads to be played in the beginning of your Video, from which you will receive a percentage of the income.
This gives you about a cent per 10 clicks. (An ad is not played on each click, and some people use adblockers etc.)
Yeah, it's just weird and kinda shady they would approach me now and not before, and I wouldn't be able to reproduce those views, it's nearly impossible to have most videos gain traction. I'd do let's play/gameplay videos, but I make too many mistakes and can't make perfect playthroughs ><
This email is completely shady since that's not how "YouTube Money" works.
There are 2 ways to generate money for a Video.
1. Ads as explained above.
2. Getting a direct sponsorship.
No Idea what the guy is trying but it's not legit.
The ads played are usually selected by the YouTube algorithm. Companies can also pay YouTube to get played more often on a specific video (which you will likely not be asked for).
For Sponsorships a company will get in contact with you because you generate a lot of traffic on your Videos and they want to buy some of that fame basically.
They'll either 1-time pay you to make a specific Video regarding their product.
Or they will have a time-based contract were they'll pay you $X.xx each month as long as you are keeping up the contract which likely includes naming the product in each of your videos or things like that.
You can not get any money for traffic generated while the video was not monetized. (Unless a company pays you to name them in the video description of your viral video. Which I haven't seen yet)
Regarding your content:
Keep up your work. First priority should always be that you want to do it and have fun doing it. And not to make money.
You will improve over time. And if people discover your videos (you can always share them with friends etc.) And they like them, you'll get feedback how to improve and so on.
If you keep doing it for fun you can always grow. And maybe some day you'll be the #1 YouTuber.