If you want to become a YouTuber, here are some numbers from my experience

You get paid for every 1,000 views

YT usually pays $2 to $10 depending on your audience

Sponsors pay $5 to $30

You can sell your own digital products and make $3 to $10 per 1,000 views

That makes $10 to $50 per 1,000 views for most channels

There are outliers, but most are in this range

So you need 60k to 300k views per month to make $3,000

Most likely more in the 250k range

So if you upload weekly, that's about 65k views per video

Kinda achievable, isn't it?

The $ depends on your audience

The more your audience is spending, the more you get paid, because advertisers are paying more

50 year old women from the US spend more than 7 year olds from Bangladesh

So if you're making fortnite lets plays, you might need 1M views per month

If you're making vegan cooking tutorials, you might only need 100k views

Obviously some YouTubers make $100 and some only make $0.50 per 1,000 views

These are averages