[dtech]

> Also, $4.99 feels too steep – many people only give $1-2 on Patreon.

It's a copy of Twitch's subscription model, which is also $4.99 a month per channel and gives similar perks like emoticons.

A lot of content creators migrated to Twitch because a reliable fan-base giving you (a part of) $5/month/person is very attractive in comparison to Youtube's fickle advertising CPM and algorithm which determines who gets which videos in his feed.

[mjevans]

It makes a LOT more sense on Twitch where everything is live interaction and you can reuse the 'stickers' anywhere on the site. (which is actually a good thing given that allowing ANY images from anywhere would be rampantly abused)

[JackCh]

From what I've gathered, a great deal of the money flowing through Twitch is from "whales", to whom $5 seems like a pittance because they drop 100x that a day in tips. Maybe replicating that phenomena on youtube will work.

[makomk]

Yup, that's what I've seen too. There are a few people who seem to gift hundreds of people $5 one-month subscriptions every month.