The pirate bay guys tried to spin up somthing called flattr a decade or two back. You put in a fixed amount per month, then when you engage with media you like you click a “flattr” button and that media gets a slice. You coule alao setup differnt people to always get a cut.

Say you put in $10/month and flattr 100 things? Everyone gets 10 cents. $100/month? $1 each.

It didnt catch on, likely due to processing fees, but I always like that idea. Signing up for dozens or hundreds of patrons/ghosts/etc is just too hard to manage and fund, but if I and several million other people could hand out pennies a month, it might really matter to small artists/journalists.