>>66020871Meh, you're forgetting the merch and the sponsorships. Just look at Ina, who recently collabed with Kronii in a shilling stream for FGO, which had more than 10k viewers for the biggest part of it; must be counted as a relatively important source of revenue. These kind of streams are precious for companies, I don't see them getting less than a couple thousands of dollars each for it (that number being debatable though).
Also, with merch, the numbers are pretty easy to get (if you trust /#/, which is complicated sometimes, even if their merch numbers don't seem too unrealistic). Let's take Ina as an example. With that numberfag thread from a week ago, we can estimate that Ina's plushie made around $60,000, and we learned a couple months ago that Cover gives around 50% of the merch sales to the talents. That already gives Ina roughly $30,000, only for the "friends with u" plushies.
We can get even deeper in the merch thing, going all the way back to her birthday merch, which sold out in a couple of minutes, but finding the numbers out of is too long and I'm lazy as fuck honestly. What I'm sure about is that the limited edition pack was around $150-$200, with roughly 1000 of them on sale, and with that in mind, we're already talking about tens of thousands of dollars.
She doesn't even have many expenses since she draws nearly all of her merch and her MVs herself too, which amplifies even more that amount of money.
The big conclusion here is that the SCs and memberships are relatively minor things for the talents. That's why Gura can keep being rich as fuck without streaming, she really doesn't need to. These girls definitely earn 5 figures a year if they don't fuck up too hard.
