Can someone tell me what the creator economy is on Ethereum apart from just minting NFT’s or tokens that you can sell your fans? Like, is there any kind of interesting unique business model that’s not a convoluted weird way of just saying “hey please buy my art on chain, even though you could’ve just watched it for free, as a way of supporting me or speculating on the price” ? Sincere question 

I’m not saying that that’s totally unvaluable.  Platforms like Patreon are successful, but I kind of hope there’s a more interesting business model that either hasn’t been thought of yet or that I haven’t heard of.

There's a lot of nascent work with streaming payments automatically/splitting them automatically 

See eg sablier or superfluid

And protocols built on top which can do things like automatically redirect interest or staking rewards earned back to creators

So still sort of like patronage but no upfront capital required