A hobby makes money on YouTube. Should I share the revenue?

Question

When I was young I played with Kapla with my brother. At around 19 I had my own place to live and I decided to take with me the 6000 planks (unused for many years) we had at the time. I then started making big constructions alone and uploading it on youtube. This is the first video that made ~100k views at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzVcXvCcE5s. I turned on monetization and my channel earned about 30eur/month. I let it run for about 5 or 6 months then turned it off because I didn't need the money at the time and preferred that my viewers see no ads. I kept making kapla constructions. I made deals with citiblocs (another plank company) where they give me free planks and I make videos for them on a separate channel. I then made a deal with Kapla (the company) where they send me 25000 planks and I make videos for them. At one point, kapla asked that I remove (set as unlisted) citiblocs videos and I did because they have been quite generous overall.Recently I turned on monetization again and it makes in the order of 400-500eur/month. I told my brother who helped me on some videos. To give a few examples, here he does help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W61THELYq48, here he doesn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIbsx9PeH84. About ~1/4 of the videos he helps me, it depends. The projects always have been my initiative, I own the planks and I edit and post the videos on youtube.Today he wants some of the youtube revenue. What he specifically asked for is that I "give" him all de-listed citiblocs videos (with the consent or not of kapla), so he can create his own channel and have the revenue of those. I should mention that we have past disagreements about how to share the equity of a startup I'm trying to create and he left early (but that's another story)Given the situation I describe, what is the reasonable thing to do? Is it legitimate for him to ask for some of the youtube revenue of my channel?

celticninja · Accepted Answer

He's your brother is family so even if she may have fallen out sometimes you just gotta help out. sounds like you have an ideal situation you keep making videos for kapla he makes them for city blocks I would advise that you don't mention each other or anything like that as in your brother's so the both organisations don't know you're competing against one another for their stuff. No reason you both can't get paid but I would suggest that perhaps instead of paying him YouTube revenue you offer to help him get set up and start doing his own channel at no cost similar to how he helped you when you started your channel.I would suggest he didn't money out of it and try and get him set up so he's making his own money but make it clear to him that you never gonna want to claim off his. what he does on his channel is his, what you do on your channel is yours