The point would be micropayments without the ads - which are mostly noise anyway. From the creator POV YouTube and Kindle Unlimited approach this model. So doe

The point would be micropayments without the ads - which are mostly noise anyway. From the creator POV YouTube and Kindle Unlimited approach this model. So does Spotify, to an extent. But the payments are much smaller than the value generated. And creators are at the mercy of gigantic centralised content distribution machines which can destroy your career on a whim, or because of an unfortunate outbreak of stupidity and bureaucracy. There isn't anything like a federated micropayments system which would offer aggregation and payment services, but would be run at cost - a bit like the cultural equivalent of a credit union.