> But why, when YouTube has chosen to provide the content ad-free?
Why pay for games when you can pirate them? Why pay for the New York Times when you can read all their articles on archive.is? Are you saying you would prefer if YouTube locked everything down with DRM?
And I don't really buy the "I'll just support their Patreon" argument that a lot of people are using in this thread. Ignoring the obvious issue that you're depending on people to go out of their way to give the creator money, unless there's some kind of micropayment solution most creators just go from making some amount of money to making no money. A bigger cut of $0 is still $0.