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less than half

I think the first year or so would've been a bit stagnant; while I was grabbing water I was trying to think, and the first thing I can remember him actively mentioning Patreon about was the Moody Bidoofs album, where you could buy it on Bandcamp or sub on Patreon to download it

Rob has only ever gained patreons from one start of a month to another twice since he started declining, and he only gained like 3-4

That coincided with OR/AS releasing, which was 2014

His early patreon prob would have had 100-200 people knowing his fanbase size right away

when he announced it

then it grew to probably 300 with almost no drops

then we get the data we have

If he announced it before at least mid 2014, it was pretty quiet then, I think. He was getting money from PkmnRob on Twitch, still had a chunk of money from Unforgotten Quest, I think that's right before Blip got bought out by Maker

So he'd be getting at least a little ad revenue from all the shit on there still

I did not realize Rob launched his patreon on my 15th birthday

thats funny

the only sad part about not having the earlier patreon stuff is I can't say rob has as many patreons as he had in x year anymore

he is below the lowest point since 2015

which was 312 patrons

Oh, was the DvZ redux in 2013? Not when it was killed and revived the first time, but when it had been stagnant for a while and then he started hyping it more?

choose the night was in dec 2012, so it was post uquest kickstarter when he started the patreon

UQuest Kickstarter was end of October to end of November 2012

maybe he just uploaded the video later for choose the night

idk

I know for a fact he played DvZ going into sep 2013

because I created PHIJKCHU Aug 2013

and I watched him play DvZ/pokemon for like 5-6 months before that

Because the game had an "estimated delivery" of two years after the Kickstarter's end date

Oh really now.

~500k subs would be considered a Z-List Youtube celeb, right?

I woldn't say thats Z list

thast like C list in modern youtube, at least B from the time rob got those subs

Nah, not talking about Rob

500k is still a lot, considering 99,9% of youtubers do not get more than 100k

I was gonna say, where I can I find a Z^-32-List version of Matt McMuscles to do a "What Happened?" style video on Rob?

I've always dreamed of someone like GamerFromMars or Down The Rabbit Hole making that sort of style of video about him

Kiwi farms levels of research

I forgot how good Patreon used to look

I have the original video Rob used to launch his patreon too

so remember, Fall 2012 was his kickstarter,

and his plan to stay relevent while making the game was to use YouTube (which he really wasn't using before) and to do 2 weekly streams on Twitch

that started in the Spring of 2013, and the numbers were alright

YT was lower than he thought it would be, Twitch was larger than he thought it'd be

hence the Patreon

he started at ~$4k/month, big drop after that first month to like 3.5k, and then it held steady there for a while, he'd pimp it once every so often and it'd go up a bit

he was really on-top of doing his monthly Patreon chats, and had ~50 people watch it live most months

eventually dwindled a bit, but then after the start of Urealms, it spiked back up

Imagine $4k a month making “silly internet videos”

Rob didn't know what he wanted to invest his time into, which was good and bad

Tuna Bandits is what blew up his YT channel to 100k average views

people forget that Rob wasn't a YouTuber at all at that point

So he'd do these projects, and put time into things that he liked, with no expectation on them being popular

which is what he always did

but now with a Patreon he had enough month-to-month funding to just fuck around

which I think most people at the time liked

I don't really think there was even that much hype for his game, most people were pretty muted and just liked seeing Rob do new stuff

Urealms Live, for as Popular and profitable as it was, was this shift where suddenly Rob was consuming 100% of his time, producing something that felt like it should take 20% of his time

and you'd have entire years, where the guy would put out what felt like zero videos or streams other than URL

I mean tbh url was making him a decent amount of money in donation events in addition to his patreon income? Did he just like ignore it all?

this is way before that Vinny

well I guess not way before

and it's decent, but gets burned through pretty fast

2 people living in Toronto, on top of Rob "re-investing" in the show to make it bigger for some reason

The most Rob made, at any point in his career, was PlayMindcrack

that dwarfed what he made on Unforgotten Realms Live

Dolf probably knows better than I do

what the donation totals were for the campaigns

but he's essentially live off that for a year, because he was doing ZERO else

Do we know what the average youtube reupload made as well?

you mean putting the campaigns on YouTube?

Yeah

probably not much of anything?

I feel like not much

they were mostly sub 50k views

I don't think you get much from youtube ads unless you bring in big dog numbers

which is like what, $1k

on a good day

$500 on a bad one

but having them uploaded to youtube definitely would help with promotion

So he went from one extreme on the guaranteed money spectrum to the other: Taking the money and saving basically nothing, trying to turn it into much more than it needed to be, to the point of detriment(in both product and state of mind), to doing basically nothing because for enough time, he could do absolutely nothing and barely lose income.

yep

which is why him canceling S4 was so crazy

years of investment, and sole focus on that show