I'm with others here in that this - while an extreme example - is just another version of common revenue-sharing that happens on pretty much all online creation platforms where the user isn't responsible for hosting the content themselves.

I think it's a bit ludicrous that the company is pushing that as a marketing point towards children, that the payout-threshold is so high, and that they take multiple cuts of that payout, but at the end of the day; aren't all monetized products aimed at children kind of a scam built on exploiting people who can't recognize they're being exploited?

Kind of egregious, but also just the same principle as many other platforms like Twitch, YouTube, Spotify, Medium, Google, etc.