That isn't the same though, if I put up a sign on my front lawn and you walk by, it would be unreasonable for me to expect a donation from you as I did nothing. But if I upload a Youtube video I spent weeks working on, and I'm a partner. I should reasonably expect that I'll make money from each view. And obviously the model works at least somewhat. The Epicmealtime dudes and many others are making a living from their Youtube videos.
I can understand your point, but my point is that Youtube allows people to block ads and still view their videos. Therefore, if you upload your video to such a service, you can't expect everyone to watch the ads. (My comment was assuming that you were providing a service for the donation)
How much time and effort gets spent making the video isn't relevant, it only matters how much someone is willing to PAY for it, and how that money is collected. Some museums stay open on donations, but that doesn't make it a good business model; giving something away and then expecting peoples' sense of guilt to kick in is unfair, and only penalizes the honest.
So don't ask me to turn off my ad blocker, ask Youtube to fix their view counter and lower the per-click payout accordingly.