That situation seems to be the case already - Professional YouTubers are the ones pulling in big view counts and so receiving the lion's share of the revenue. Y

That situation seems to be the case already - Professional YouTubers are the ones pulling in big view counts and so receiving the lion's share of the revenue. Yet there are millions of tiny contributors doing it for non-monetary reasons. This situation is also true on Twitch. For every big streamer pulling >1k viewers per stream, there's thousands of small streamers with <10. Youtube has already made a token effort to mimicing this with the 'join' button, but right now that more patron-centric revenue model looks to be a short- and medium-term winning formula. Youtube would likely benefit from pursuing it.