if they remove the ads then users have to pay monthly fee - they need revenue at the end of the day

to be honest I think you should be focusing on the users, not the creators. current business model is flawed - you either have it all free for users and creators, or you put a fee only on users, while you reward creators. so as a user would you rather get education/entertainment for free or even better get paid on top of that? is that payment sustainable? as long as there is a user base there creators and companies would want ppl to know them hence would pay fountain

at the end of the day creators without users means nothing. at the moment their revenue source comes from creators who promote their content or companies like zbd/casa/voltage

Oscar Merry is the co-founder, you can listen to his episode at Pomp for example