Yeah a little? But this is an elected official with real power misbehaving in public as well as being hypocritical with their anti-lgbt "for the children" stance.
As far as political news goes, this is pretty mild in terms of scandal. Not sure anybody's mind is going to change about her as a result of this, but I think if it can end up in an honest attack ad then it's probably newsworthy.
You've just described YouTube Premium. Except it's $14/month now. And I don't know the numbers for how much of that goes to creators.
You can also "join" a channel, assuming that channel has it enabled.
They do point out a couple of instances of questionable if not outright scummy things (e.g. the affiliate codes situation) but the article mostly gives off "stop using brave, I've decided it's cancelled" vibes.
It'd be interesting to see if there's data on this. It certainly seems like this should be true.