I am not against the whole "buy me a cup of coffee" ask by content creators but I do think it is really sad.

We have we devalued ourselves for corporate profits so much that it is unreasonable to ask for anything in exchange for hours of virtually unpaid labor other than a cup of coffee to drink while we do hours of virtually unpaid labor.

Like can we normalize "if you like my stuff, help me pay a little bit of my rent!" or "if you like my channel buy me some damn food so I can eat".