>>10958364Given the absolutely worst estimate of each step taking half of the money (Youtube, then Cover, then Taxes), that's still $209,750 take-home. From Youtube alone.
I don't know what music streaming services do for their cut, but for good measure just assume that only 20% of any amount listed is actual take-home pay after cuts and overhead. From what I understand Cover doesn't take a very big cut from music since the chuuba has to front the cost of production themselves. We also know that merch is basically only overhead and the chuuba gets almost all of the profits, although with stuff like Nendos GoodSmile probably takes a cut for themselves.
One thing that people don't consider is that being a chuuba, even in a large company, is still very much in the mindset of running your own business. Corpo vtubing just gives you access to some resources that make it easier, like a manager to help you coordinate things, do scutwork for permissions, and help with OpSec
pretend with me for a moment that Cover's management does their job properly all the time. You are expected to be the driving force of your own business. A lot of this money will be going right back into equipment, up-front production fees for merch and music, booth rentals if they're needed, construction for installing new walls, a fancy bed so you can actually fucking sleep at night knowing you're one of the top earners in the world...overhead isn't something people think about in a 9-5 job. Running your own business is hell even when you're operating in the green. Ordering rush jobs on models and entire fucking detailed setpieces and purchasing licences and buying gluten-free bread aren't cheap.
Even after all of that, though, it's still a fuckton of money.
