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MrMallard posted...

Isn't this why Patreon took off so hard? Content creators realised that people were blocking the ads on their videos and hampering their income - a fair few of them totally understanding the situation, themselves being fed up with the increasing monetization of YouTube - and began using a third party service where they offered a look behind the curtain in exchange for a consistent revenue stream from interested subscribers.

LinusTechTips could start a Patreon and advertise it at the end of his videos. Unless he already has one, which would be pretty :/ of him

No

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/patreon-story/

Conte came up with the idea for Patreon in February 2013 due to his own financial situation: the small amount of ad revenue he expected from YouTube wouldnt come close to repaying the thousands of dollars he was expecting to spend on the Pedals music video (it ultimately cost $10,000). He believed there was a small subset of his audience who would be happy to help though, and to do so for each future video. He mocked-up his vision on 14 pieces of printer paper and, unable to build a software platform himself, reached out to his old Stanford roommate, Sam Yam.