You're moving the goalposts. I was replying to this:

> There's a three way ecosystem: the content creator, Google and the consumer.

Patreon is a different company than Google. So is Nebula. Sponsors pay the creator directly and don't go through Google.

> Wouldn't it be nice if you could pay a monthly subscription, and any video you viewed gave the creators a small fraction?

Yes, and I'm very happy with my Nebula subscription, thank you very much. It's nice to know that I'm contributing to creators without contributing to the centralization of the web.