It depends on how you see it, would you say that Patreon pays TK to do the game or are his supporters the one pay him? I guess you'll answer that his supporters pay him because a patreon account without supporters don't make any money.
Youtube does the same, you'll get as much money as people saw the publicity on your videos and the money you'll get depends on what publicity the viewer saw, and that depends on what company/products are being publicited on Youtube and in what country/region the viewer is (because it'd make no sense if a mexican watches publicity for a product sold only in Rusia), so Youtube never pays you, Youtube is just the middleman (like Patreon) between the youtuber and the company looking for publicity. That is assuming that you're speaking about making money using ads, because if you get yourself a sponsor for your video, like Skillshare and so many others, then they will talk to you directly without even naming Youtube.
Now since you're a question guy, maybe this questions would help you get the differences. Will Youtube fire you if you don't do videos? Will they scold you if you do a bad quiality video? Will they tell you how to do your videos? Will they force you to check in an office, work for 8-10 hours and then check out? Will they scold you if you don't do that the next day? Will they even notice if you don't do your job at all? Will they suddenly stop paying you if you suddenly stop uploading videos? Or the monetization that is still on will give you money anyway? Will Youtube ask you to work extra hours? Will Youtube change your work schedule if they see fit? I don't know how old are you but if you ever had a real job then it's more a thing of common sense.
In any case, this is already becoming way off-topic.