I don’t think you can divorce the streamers and YouTube content creators consumption of obscene amounts of bullshit from the amount of the money they make. Sure they may get “donations” and ad reads but that’s all contingent on this consumption bs in the first place. Streaming may be exploitative relationships that huge platforms benefit from; many of the biggest strangers are companies in and of themselves. Their platform and streaming is run like a business. They have employees through editors and mods (not paid monetarily) that do labor for them to produce content. Their expenses for videos are carefully calculated to generate revenue. I think there’s a few similarities here with someone renting commercial space the more I think about it.

Something that sticks out to me is “if you love my content and want me to make more…” which is not greatly different then a normal commercial exchange. It’s just veiled in para-social mediated charity.

That being said I totally agree with you about how it’s not problem A.

Edit: I hope it didn’t feel like I was putting you in a corner to defend a position you didn’t hold.