No, just the general failure of the pay-to-read model. Other than the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist, few general publications with a paywall make money. They all have large, worldwide reporting staffs.
Nobody is going to pay to read your blog.
Pando Daily is trying pay-to-read. It's too soon to tell how that will work out.
Text is a rather small part of web traffic. Most bandwidth nowadays is used to deliver multimedia content (music and movies), much of it in real time.
Several people have written articles about how the Internet has been and is being changed to work as a more efficient video distribution network, which is a long way from the original idea.....
Some of that is paid for by subscriptions (eg Netflix, Spotify) though I assume the vast majority is -- like most radio and television -- paid for by advertising.
Pando Daily is trying pay-to-read. It's too soon to tell how that will work out.