Re: Forgive me if I'm being slow
"As far as I can tell this is identical to the cycle involving BAT in every respect, except you don't need to worry about swapping real money to pretend money and back again."
Isn't going to happen. There's no mechanism for either 1 or 2 and even if there were the cycle would be more like
1) Advertiser pays viewer
2) Viewer pockets it