Content is either free or paid or ad supported or donations.
Or some combination of the above.
The new nice thing is V4V which kind of works for bigger names right now as not enough eyes and ears for all the content creators.
If you offer for free it’s because it’s for the love of it or you want to gain attention or one day in order to be paid moving to something that gives you value back.
If you give away everything for free, it’s going to be incredibly tough or impossible moving forward to a paid model unless you offer something additional, something new.
We have examples all over tech platforms today.
Not exactly but Twitter, YouTube are good examples of the services both offer.
Every model everywhere is being tried but no certainties.
Most artists, poets, actors have already been starving since beginning of time