Sorry, got distracted by the archaeology. As for the quest of monetizing video edits I think precisely a good target are the TV shows of Gen X and Boomers. Even elders in terms of care! for them they could make use some oldies film edits, I could imagine. Youtube makes it difficult to monetize them indeed; once because of the copyright suits and twice because of the 'good ettiquette of behavior", —such as banning audience for reply commenting quotes of the show that happens to carry cursing words—.

Maybe nostr can help, we'll see.