I can't imagine the number of people who paid for non-Hollywood content on YouTube was anything more than miniscule. There is a social contract on YouTube -- if

I can't imagine the number of people who paid for non-Hollywood content on YouTube was anything more than miniscule. There is a social contract on YouTube -- if I enjoy your videos I will "like" them, share them, and maybe subscribe to you. It's your job as a content creator to turn those numbers into a business if that's what you are trying to do (as opposed to a hobby), and there are ample ways of doing that. As a YouTube viewer I am already being treated as "the product" as the old saying goes in multiple ways. Paying directly for videos goes completely against the entire ethos of YouTube. There are other sites for that.