It has the wrong model. The consumer isn't choosing what THEY want to support al-a-cart or even automatically based on what they watch. (Either of these would

It has the wrong model. The consumer isn't choosing what THEY want to support al-a-cart or even automatically based on what they watch. (Either of these would be good models for the consumer.) The least regressive model would be for viewers to pay per time unit of video, say in 5 min blocks (round down) and probably with a decaying rate of compensation on a series per block of content produced (recovery time would probably vary depending on the popularity of the series, really popular things would recover more quickly, the producer should have some feedback from this metric). That kind of a model avoids penalizing groups of content creators, having them compete against each other (other than for viewer time, which is unavoidable), and it reduces the advertiser influenced network effect of more popular creators being over-paid compared to more niche / rising creators.