Yeah, I do like these thoughts a lot. I think, overall, audiences who like the creators whose output they enjoy should be culturally incentivized (though not required) to tip said creators. I think ads are honestly not a healthy economic relationship, as the YouTube vs. ad-blocker debacle has shown, and the advertisement industry has grown extremely predatory and immoral over time, what with the enormous, unfathomable amounts of user data it harvests regularly. (I'm glad governments are finally rolling out regulations on data privacy throughout the world, I think that is a necessary step, but I digress.)

Ideally, we'd live in a world that values art and creation and the people in it, but then again in a truly ideal world we wouldn't put shelter and survival behind a paywall to begin with, so.