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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by rtkwe on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:19PM (#29184385)
The Patreon or buying merch route doesn't really work for wide scale though. I can do that for a handful of the very top channels I watch regularly but I can't chip in a buck a month for all 400ish channels I'm subscribed to. Supporting a few creators is easy but giving a trickle the a wide field is kind of the sweet spot for ads.

It'd be really nice to have a way to say spread say $10 a month among the channels I watch, with maybe some options to weight towards smaller channels too.

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by BizarroLand on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:51PM (#29191544)
Like if Humble Bundle and Patreon had a content creator baby together.
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by rtkwe on Friday November 12, 2021 @09:32AM (#29199588)
Yeah a way for me to not pay much, but still more than my measly ad views would be to a creator, without individually giving them a few pennies every month or a bit at the end of the year. A bit problem is this kind of micro payment is expensive to process unless you can aggregate them at the scale of a platform.