I don't know about youtube but some time ago I saw an artist on facebook who said that he got 1 million(?) views in about a month. And during that time he earned around 7 dollars. On Hive I sometimes earn that much in a week. So that seems insane to me.
Yep that's what I mean with only the top 0.1% make "real money", sure no one on hive does that these days but we've seen how it can quickly turn around. We just need users which is the hardest thing to accomplish as a new social media platform. Only ones that come to mind in recent years are tiktok and letterboxd.