Creating to create or to profit?

Timeflies is a musical duo that started off by making their own home music videos every Tuesday, Timeflies would post a music video to YouTube which soon became known as Timeflies Tuesday. The duo gained popularity by consistently publishing these videos every week for YouTubers to view. However, as a 

In the case of Timeflies, the only money they were making was from various shows, but not from the creation of their music in general;they were not profiting from posting videos, YouTube was technically. Lanier thinks that the creation or the creators should be the ones benefiting or profiting not the aggregators or the platforms. 

It is only very recently that Timeflies paused their creation of Timeflies Tuesday videos to focus on creating an album (which is available on iTunes) to make some sort of profit. This shows their shift from their desire to simply create if their want to make money or a profit.