This passage from his “Channel Update” two months ago is revealing in the sense of how he portrays his own financial situation:
But all were lies aimed at smearing my character either outright or more surreptitiously by claiming I make (or made) more money through my activism work than is justified, inevitably leading to a huge and ultimately crippling drop in patron support.
People discovered that he wasn’t this struggling family man who was scraping together pennies in order to put food on the table, and in his view, this was the underlying factor of the falling Patreon revenue. Naturally it drills much deeper than that with the misuse of donation funds, but he’s correct in that the facade he put up previously is now gone and people know he’s been doing quite well when he had the grift on full throttle. So much so that two of the ten complaints he listed against the Magnificent Seven are directly related to this:
- 5 - Claims that I was earning a “six-figure salary”
- 7 - Claims that I was earning $3000 per livestream
He has been brought down uncomfortably close to the national average in earnings and he’s finding it necessary to deny himself things in the past would have been easy to come by.
Moving forward, earning at or slightly above the national average is the best case scenario for him for the little work that he does. It will carve out an existence in Zagreb for him but little else. That’s what he’s so angry about and why he had to get out of town for as long as he did.