Reddit to pay moderators and creators??

https://lemmyunchained.net/post/1339

Why would they??
because it seems to be an effective model for meta.
In what universe is paying people for something they are willing to do for a free a sustainable business model?
The meta and YouTube universe.

Youtube has advertisers on individual videos which requires more moderation than endless text posts.

Or to put it another way; video advertisers ask for a lot more than just crappy spam reddit post ads.

That's probably why YouTube has such a hair trigger on demonetizing, removing, and copyright striking videos.
Yes, and also video/audio content is much more ripe for copyright claims than image/text content, since it's all owned by giant corporations. For example the music version of all the art bots now was only trained on royalty free/copyright free music... I wonder why.