I hadn't been following this thread but yeah, if they turned on monetisation and not swearing etc, then they should be getting a little bit from YT, however don't overestimate that, because they were infrequent posters and only hit around 300k - 900k views per video, which isn't a huge amount of watch time in total.duncs500 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 5:18 pm So very roughly speaking, they were making £6.5k in 2019 when they had around 50% of their peak number of patrons. So about £13k per month at the peak.
Add that to the other private client work, merch sales, and presume this doesn't include YT revenue either?
Seems to me they could have been funding a very respectable coke and hookers habit at their peak.
The Patreon thing is awful. Creators seem to let that slide (presumably because it's easy, free money) until people cancel or complain. Same thing happening with Jack Monroe, she's been getting potentially ~£2k per month but not done an update in years, whilst genuinely blowing it up the wall on wasteful spending and drugs, with which has caused a lot of ill feeling and resentment.