Patreon seems to be in a good position to help the creators with the demonitization situation. One of my favorite Youtube creators has a good day job and seems

Patreon seems to be in a good position to help the creators with the demonitization situation. One of my favorite Youtube creators has a good day job and seems to deliberately try to trigger the demonitization in his videos. But he has a Patreon that he uses to both fund the videos and to limit the first day or so of release of new videos to fans. I get the impression this helps kick-start the video so that it doesn't get flagged, based on what he has said about it. Youtube is in an interesting position right now. They have a lot of great content, but there are obvious huge problems standing in the way of run-away success. Finding new content is another of the big problems, I use Youtube a lot for "edutainment", but the recommendations engine doesn't really give me much diversity. And the diversity I explore seems to just confuse their recommendations.