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I think one of the main challenges here is subscription-overload.

Bingo! I had been using Patreon as a "poor man's micropayments." I was implementing the "spend what you would on a cable subscription" idea and spreading mostly $1 payments across nearly 40 YouTubers. I would love a system that just makes micropayments as I browse/watch.

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Exactly!

Just don't fall into the trap of many others that wants to take an amount from my account every month. I'm quite fed up with that.

Instead allow me to pay per view. I'll happy pay a sum in up front to reduce friction.

I think Flattr now has a system that is close to what you describe for YouTube. Micropayments are hard and Patreon is the 1st company to produce serious results experiments like Steem are interesting but siloed in the cryptosphere.

This is exactly what I currently do. I like it: It gives me the feeling of a personal relationship with a creator.

I don't want to pay for everything I watch eiher; I don't think I need to give money to people who repost memes on YouTube.

I am however missing some way to toss creators who don't create frequently, but made something really valuable to me a bit of money.

I'd also like to be able to more finely split the money I give to creators.

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