Personally, this will mean less youtube for me. It's not a big enough painpoint for me to pay for. I'd consider paying for an entirely ad-free youtube, but not for a paywall on some content. I'm not sure how well content creators will do behind a paywall. It seems to put them at a major disadvantage.
I got a free year-long subscription to Vessel, which essentially works like the premium ad free option that youtube is talking about, and I basically never use it. It's not Better enough for me to want to pay for it, or even for me to use it instead of youtube as it stands, even though some of the creators I follow release videos a week to a month earlier on that platform. My attraction to youtube is that it is free content which I can choose to support by whitelisting channels on adblock. I don't care about watching ads for content that I support.
Yeah. I feel the same way. While I like shows like Regular Car Reviews and Roadkill, I don't like them enough to feel compelled to pay money. Likewise, there are other avenues of finding and listening to music as well, many of them just as good if not arguably better. Chances are the only reason why Youtube is such a big music streaming service is just because it's there and it has so many other offerings all under one roof. If the whole paywall thing becomes a mess, I wouldn't think twice about just walking away.
With the adblocker online, you mean? From what I understand, YouTube has it great at the moment: they share the content freely but gather revenue from donations from Patreon or somesuch. If you want to support the content maker, you can donate as much as you'd like - or you can never give them a cent and still enjoy the great stories and great informational resources they provide. People like CGP Grey who thrive off quality content make thousands of dollars every month by publishing one polished, interesting and informative video (he makes staggering $15 thousand off a single video which he releases once in a while, plus $2.5k+ off a single Hello Internet podcast episode). Someone like Birgirpall, whose videos are still good but in a very different venue, can make quite a bit by putting forth several shorther videos a month (Biggi and Banzaii make $766 off of a single video while releasing 3 or 4 per month). Then, if someone like Markiplier ever needed personal money through Patreon, if even a quarter of his subscribers decided to pay a dollar a month, he'd be racking millions as soon as the next payment goes through (he has 9 million subscribers). They all release their content for free, available for everybody; the Patreon rewards are what one might call "supplimentary material" and doesn't affect the overall YouTube content experience. If each of those popular YouTubers hid behind a paywall all of a sudden, their userbase would collapse. Like rd95 said: they're good, but not that good; well, maybe beside CGP Grey's. It would lead to other, less-known before-paywall YouTubers rising in popularity, however, so it's a sword with both sides sharp (what's the idiom for it?).Would you pay to avoid ads on YouTube?
From youtube to hubski nobody has a clue how to make money on the internet.