Here are the economics of content creation, because most people commenting on this are not Creators and are completely IGNORANT... In addition to not reading the terms of service, which would tell anyone the lawyer for this lawsuit is ripping off his clients... Most of you as consumers have not idea how Creators actually get paid and how it works, or how much/little, even you as an individual die hard fan actually generate in revenue when you only support with your eyeballs... That sounds ungrateful... but I want you to actually run the math here... The average content creator based in entertainment has an RPM of $5 per 1000 views if they are fortunate (long form only) which means each individual viewer is approximately $.002 per view... 1/5 of a penny per view... The average creator in entertainment uploads 50-100 long form videos per year. Even if someone watched 100 videos of that person's long form catalog that is $.20 You get 50-100 long form videos to enjoy... for FREE... and your contribution is $.20... that's it... That's how much an individual dedicated viewer contributes to a creator with their eyeballs as a DIE HARD FAN... if they creator had a $20 RPM like in finance it jumps to about $.80 as a die hard fan... If someone is getting VIRAL views that adds up and is a nice living, but that is the .01% elite of creators in long form... most of whom are already RICH... So the working class creators who make up the majority of monetized creators really aren't subsidized by their fans if their fans are not customers. Sponsored content is the way they make their money. YouTube Premium does pay a share of that money to Creators... but there are only 100M Premium users worldwide and even established middle class creators still have less than 2% of their audience paying for Premium... Essentially what consumers advocate for, means that the only people who can make content are essentially broke kids doing it for fun... and people who are already millionaires... Similar to regular society, the Creator Middle Class has the same problem as the actual Middle Class... Consumers want high quality... with little or no investment, and when they do invest... it goes to people who are already rich...