>>3815887>>3815755These are scraped member numbers. HoloEN are doing great, sure, if that gigantic member burst didn't unsub after the honeymoon months. The JPs are another story.
Being generous and allocating Matsuri that count since the start, and using the gauge of 1/3 going to the girls after YT and Cover cuts, she makes 2.2K a month from memberships, or 77K total in the last 3 years. Add on the ~800K USD from her SC earnings, that's 266K into her pocket over 3 years, or about 88K a year. So that's 110K a year before taxes. Obviously that's nothing to sneeze at, but many other jobs in CS, law, etc can eclipse her earnings and still be guaranteed a smooth career path into retirement. If Cover goes down, most of the holos face an uncertain future.
Add on that you have to put some of that back into your work, it definitely does sting. And it's not like Matsuri's a bottom-hitter, she's the 12th most SCed channel in the world.
Money from ads isn't that much either, for a million views you're looking at around 3-5K in returns, probably less for chuubas given the subject matter.
I'm not saying that they don't have the money to do it, though. Obviously this doesn't factor in sponsorships and merch. But even then a pimply dude sitting on his arse at Facebook rewriting their shitty messenger is probably outearning these "famous rich chuubas" and will keep doing so for decades, while it's uncertain if the top vtubers will still be pulling these numbers after five years.
