[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.