Product design question

Create a platform like YouTube for artists.

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What this question tests

Product design for a niche creator vertical, requiring domain specific needs beyond generic video hosting.

Clarify artists means visual artists, painters, illustrators, digital artists, rather than musicians, and state that assumption.
Identify core needs: showcasing process like time lapse painting videos, selling original work or prints, and building a collector base.
Contrast with YouTube's generic model, which doesn't support commerce or portfolio style presentation well for visual art.
Prioritize the process to sale journey, since that is the artist's actual monetization path, not just view count.
Propose process videos, an integrated print or original shop, and commission request tools built into the creator's channel.
Define success as artist revenue generated through the platform and repeat buyer rate.

Resolves the ambiguity of artists explicitly rather than guessing silently.
Identifies commerce, not just content hosting, as the true differentiator versus existing YouTube.
Gives an illustrative number, for example assuming 10 percent of active artist channels generate a sale monthly.
Considers competition from Patreon and Etsy, and states why bundling video and commerce beats using both separately.

Treating this as YouTube but for a different niche without a real differentiator like commerce.
Ignoring that this competes with well established tools that already serve artists.

How would you handle payments and taxes for artist sales across different countries?
What would make an artist choose this over Patreon plus Etsy separately?