Tangentially related, even in YouTube Premium you can still see ads if the content creator embeds ads as part of their content. This seems like double-dipping to me and I am seeing more and more of this.
crowdsourced auto-skip for in-video adverts.
The creators I tend to watch the most these days either don’t have sponsorships or they only run their ad at the end of the video in which case I just stop watching or click to the next video.
Even the lame concept of throwing up Pateron supporter's names on the video for mere frames scrolling by is just moronic to me. Do people really think they are special for having their username flashed on a screen? What value/meaning is derived from this?
Someone is supporting a creator whose content they like and the creator is publicly saying thank you.
How is this confusing to you?
how is their sincerity (more to the point, lack thereof) confusing to you?
How deeply cynical and also, besides the point; even if you believe all creators don't give a shit (I believe many do), people still like being thanked.
I mean, clearly you don't ...