What I mean is that paying for YouTube premium is a very indirect and inefficient way to support your preferred content creator.
But my preferred content creator could not exist without YouTube and YouTube shoulders the enormous expense of hosting videos. I don’t get why they should not get compensated for that as well.
That’s an ok justification, but I thought you were buying YouTube premium to support your content creator, not to support YouTube. YouTube premium doesn’t support your content creator.
That’s just false. Premium supports the creator and YouTube and NOT the advertiser. That’s a win in my book. Saying that premium does not give anything to creators is just not true.
Creators nearly always make substantially more from premium subscribers
“The YouTubers” not your YouTuber.
Better just to split $7 a month between your favourite patreon accounts and put up with some advertising.
What’s the difference? Most stuff I watch comes from a longer list of channels I’m subscribed to. I could go and figure out which Channel I want to donate how much to and then split 12€ between them and keep my donations updated if my viewing habits change and then deal with ads, or I could just not do any of that and support the video platform as well because honestly, I’m very happy with the distribution quality and selection YouTube gives me.
I have a subscription to nebula/curiosity stream as well but compared to YouTube, every other platform just suuuucks at content Delivery 🤷
The difference is 45% of $12 and your original goal at the top of this thread was to support your content creators, not YouTube.
At the top I said "So if you care about supporting creators and the platform they run on, then premium is an easy choice. "
So that’s perfectly in line with what I said, no?
Still not sure why you are so adamant about giving $5 a month to a monopoly generating 30bn per year. But you be you.