"but when the idea of paying for youtube comes along, who directly profit shares with small creators you adore, people fall over backwards in disgust." Probabl

"but when the idea of paying for youtube comes along, who directly profit shares with small creators you adore, people fall over backwards in disgust." Probably a combination of misgivings: 1. Google cant keep a product/service alive worth a damn, or ones that do get changed to be piss eventually 2. Paying other content providers for content they provide feels different than paying Youtube for mostly content they carry that was pirated/unlicensed anyway (e.g. full disclosure,I mostly use it to watch jazz and funk bootleg concerts or old 80s music videos or other ephemera YT really had damn all to do with and likely dont monetize for the actual creators worth a damn). 3. Somewhere between the two is the fact that for some licensed materials, you still have the region-constraint. If Yt Premium covered truly global reach, it might be more tantalizing, but as it stands...meh. It's dryshite ROI.