even if you "earn" some on YouTube, you'll hardly ever see it as they wait until it hits $100 -- which, even upon an overly positive calculation, will take until 2059 in my case. Trouble is, they're (a) getting a far-too-large chip for themselves, and (2) they cannot *and do not want to * handle small amounts, let alone micro-payments.
No problem for Steemit though as the cut out the middleman already and, using Crypto, have no trouble at all to pay out immediately, even small amounts...
This is the future vs YouTube's last millenium business model :)