>>92953515It can't. Look how much trouble indies have even getting a tiny amount of merch organised.
Holos have merch relatively streamlined from factory to end buyer. The girls don't have to do shit but say "yes" or "no" or "tweak this a little" and the chinese factory has a mock-up done in a week.
I see this fallacy a lot when phasefags seethe and cope and try to say that X phase whoever made $X more in SC or whatever at a given snapshot in time. They never talk about how Miko generated >$800k from the sales of a single bday merch set alone a few years ago when we could still get figures off the sites before leddit faggots let slip to cover that their sites had gaping data holes. The holo girls make bank off merch. They buy cars, houses, houses for their parents, investment property to lease out, holidays for their families to exotic locales and they all fly business or first when they travel because who the fuck flies coach if they don't have to?
This is all possible not because of some shitty 3 way split +tax on a handful of stream donations or even from adsense rev which is also often neglected.
It's all from selling plastic chinkshit.
Fauna will not be able to achieve that kind of revenue again. If she's been clever she'll have been saving and investing properly so that the amount she has accrued can reach some kind of self sustainability. The magic number is about $100k and she's no doubt cleared that easy.