There could be a the address of a smart contact at the end of the credits. Every time more than, say $1000, piles up in that address, whatever is there gets dispensed to the contributors at the end of that month.
Plex could aggregate those addresses and tell you how to allocate your payment based on how you allocated your attention. Yes I know that's what Netflix does, but I control my Plex server. Nobody is then going to find additional ways to monetize that data.
I know it's unconventional, but I really don't think it's crazy to want to reward the creators of content that you consume while simultaneously not wanting to contribute towards the development of ecosystems that prevent people from being in control of their tech.
Studios already plan for this.
For a short time in the 80's, one of my mother's job responsibilities was making sure every single person involved in the production of a movie in the 1940's got their revenue check each quarter, whether it was for $50.00, or 12¢. Hundreds of people. Hundreds of checks.
Perhaps in the 80's it would've been impractical to pay her to multiplex hundreds of $1 input checks into the appropriate set of $50 or $0.12 output checks, but that's now a job that's early done by a computer.
Or perhaps IMBD will include a wallet addresses on cast & crew pages.
Whoever does this is essentially part of the crew now and probably deserves to get paid too, but it would be an easy scam for them to just set up each contributor with a wallet that secretly they control. I'm not sure how to prevent that.
If only we had some sort of distributed ledger that can programmaticaly send payments to anyone from anyone on the network in almost any quantity large or small!
I don’t think you realize how impractical that is. Take a look at the credits at the end of a movie some time. Or look up the list of people who worked on a particular episode of a show (yes, it can vary throughout a season).