Peertube is also p2p, so the videos can be hosted apart from the host instance, and there’s nothing stopping peertube instances from maintaining a distributed ledger of references to videos without the blockchain.

Everything you say blockchain does can be achieved via distributed plaintext ledgers. It is solving a problem that doesn’t exist.

As for the earning money part, eventually you do have to connect your personal details in order to transfer crypto to a usable currency, so that problem isn’t really solved either.