Eh, it's patronage. Can't really be that mad at people giving money to folks they find entertaining where the content is given away freely even to people who don't pay.
There's so many sketchy business models, hard to be mad at one that's completely devoid of coercion and people enthusiastically participate in
When giving money to the content creator is the game mechanic that allows the cc to "win", it becomes something else imho.
There is "I tell stories and here's a hat you can put some pennies in" and there's "I'm in a contest, the one with the most money in their hat wins". I feel like there is some abuse of human traits to extract money going on here.
But I agree, there's many wat more sketchy MOs around. In a way I have to respect this one, they make it work with so few moving parts.
There's so many sketchy business models, hard to be mad at one that's completely devoid of coercion and people enthusiastically participate in