To those forum members who are feeling defeated because of the spike in donors I would like to discuss with you this. Preamble: I always try to be analytical, using logic rather than impacting emotions.
Mr Evans has a channel with 109k subscribers. He manages to "convince" 1000 new people every 3 to 5 weeks to subscribe to his channels. These "people" as new followers should interact with him more than anyone else. Yet the begging video managed to get only 30k to date. More than two thirds of his subscribers didn't even bother. Many views from that video stats came from us the "non subscribers". Mr Evans generally gets around 20/30k views for top videos (Morris, Report etc). However, he averages 4k views counting all the videos he has put out in the last year. One should think that since he "convinces" so many new followers he should get more views. He doesn't.
And even more interesting is the fact that he managed to get only 168 new patrons to date which translate to only a misery 0.5% from a 30k viewer video. From the comments on his video many have pointed out that they were struggling but willing to offer "something". Even if the new patrons averaged a $15 each what is it actually he gained? $2500? I am telling you he needs far more than that. He need $5k extra per month at least to cover his lifestyle. I would call this an Epic Failure not a success. This is a Pyrrhic victory.
On Reddit as many of you pointed out, there is thread with some ehm let's say "colorful" comments about Mr Evans' begging. If he was planning to establish a momentum in cash flow increase then he failed miserably. Eventually he would regret posting that video mark my words. This is obviously my opinion based on the numbers and stats which differently from Mr Evans do not lie.
