they were broke because traffic and hosting was too expensive so google stepped in. How do you want to solve this problem? With a fee you have to pay for each video?
Not really a big idea just a day dream.....
I believe there are definite ways to work around it. If you have a video platform that secures it's users and creators in a cryptocurrency, it would be possible subsidize funds from the platform to facilitate hosting.
That's where they went wrong - Instead there should be a completely separate token made by the platform. No one would have to pay any money or fees for tipping creators either if every user's webpage acted as a miner. Every token mined by the users themselves can bee evenly distributed upon total active users - creating a fair distribution of wealth, while creators can be rewarded by users for good content. - this means no advertisers and no adpocalypse.