To me its a big middle finger towards up and coming creators moving the goalposts without warning.
Both Youtube and LINE as of late have made it crystal clear imo where they stand in regards to top creators.
Yeah they earn both sites money, but eventually the regular audience will get tired of them and want something fresh and in regards to popular creators, it seems to me that after a certain point, they could very well make their own website and survive without the help of the site that made them popular in the first place.
Unfortunately, neither Youtube nor LINE seems to view it that way and as it stands, they'd rather let smaller creators starve instead of giving them the help they could most certainly use. And the thing is, neither site would be what it is without help from the little guy who made their growth possible to begin with.
And while I haven't seen any top webcomic creators acting snooty towards small time creators regarding what's been going on with LINE (yet), I've been seeing big name Youtubers cough Boogie cough telling smaller ones affected by Youtube's asinine new policy to basically suck it up. Real rich coming from the same big name YT celebs who are always whining about their videos getting demonetized for BS reasons or how they need money for such and such and are always shilling their Patreon accounts telling those beneath them to just bend over and accept Youtube's latest screwing over of creators.
If I wanted a successful out of touch person talking down to me, I'd just turn on the news.
God forbid some people want to make a little pocket change and thus have a motive to keep doing what they like to do until they can start making more doing what they love. And in my experience, big creators generally don't give a damn about the little people who are serious about their craft even though they started out small once too and thus should have every reason to be sympathetic and help out to the best of their ability.
Yeah...I've been pretty peeved by all this crap happening as of late.