>>7419682I was interested whether /u/shit is actually profitable, so I went to look some of it up.
Korone's earnings don't show any significant increase - two of their collabs were even demonetized - and Flare's SC earnings actually take a sizable hit every time she collabs.
Which makes sense, /u/ schizos can jerk it over their relatoinships all they want, but there's no mental path to clicking the superchat button. What're you going to tell them? "omg you're so cute together take my money?" If anything it's hurting them by scaring away paypigs like this
>>7424727I think it's more likely you're just working backwards from, "they must be lying" -> "since they're lying they have something to gain" - > "they must be earning money from this somehow" when nothing backs it up. If they're getting any benefits from this it's not easily measurable, and there's a whole lot of risk. Maintaining a web of lies on your own around your 'real' persona is difficult enough when everything is recorded, and doing it with another person doubles the chance of fucking up. Every time you field a question from chat you need to look up and update a shared Google Calendar or something? "Ah yes, I was supposed to have given the friendship rings on August 3, and then the boob touching came after that, but not before the kissing in relation to the live..."
That said, they could be lying by omission. Their audience infers that they're in a romantic relaitonship when all they've said is what they've done. They could just be very close friends.
It's still a bigger stretch to think that they're putting this shit on for at most - if you're being very generous - a few thousand dollars more a year when any inconsistency could severely hurt their streaming careers, which are doing better than fine without any /u/shit.
