@dasmatus as a creator with YouTube revenues, I can assure you that the few bucks of the ads isn't the number one issue for many small or medium creators (who need to rely on patreon\tipeee\etc more to pay the bills). The main attraction to a platform like YouTube is the discoverability via the search engine or the recommendation system. The issue is then more about promising to creators large number of views , new visitors, and growing audience size, than ads revenues IMO.