Do you mean this entire time or just this week's video?
I'll take a stab at both.... What is making $150,000+ in patreon & YouTube bits while gaining notoriety to help fuel his future writing endeavors?
I support & admire Lira for his efforts, but let no one be disillusioned that his journalism was motivated by the self. He could've left before the conflict started with his family. Lira banking on the war being over quickly or not effecting him personally was a very risky gamble made out of greed. It had dick-all to do with "the sake of journalism"... That's just what his reasoning devolved to after a year+ of being stuck in a conflict zone.
In his latest videos this week, he outright mentions $147,000 SBU found in his paypal, purely his YouTube & patreon gains. This is what they extorted from him.
Makes sense his paypal would be so flush. You'll have a hard time using paypal for stuff in E.Europe... Let alone in Ukraine.
Again, I both enjoy his content and agree with Lira a litany of issues. But he stayed in Karkhov because he wanted to, and that want was most likely career/greed driven. IMO once the war was over, he would rake in oodles from online persona & journalism pay and then retire on the book sales revenue. After all, this would've made for his second successfully selling book...
Do you mean this entire time or just this week's video?
I'll take a stab at both.... What is making $150,000+ in patreon & YouTube bits while gaining notoriety to help fuel his future writing endeavors?
I support & admire Lira for his efforts, but let no one be disillusioned that his journalism was motivated by the self. He could've left before the conflict started with his family. Lira banking on the war being over quickly or not effecting him personally was a very risky gamble made out of greed. It had dick-all to do with "the sake of journalism"... That's just what his reasoning devolved to after a year+ of being stuck in a conflict zone.
I have no trouble agreeing with all of this. Updoot.
Didn't realize he was making so much money from this, but also somehow not surprised. Clown World.
In his latest videos this week, he outright mentions $147,000 SBU found in his paypal, purely his YouTube & patreon gains. This is what they extorted from him.
Makes sense his paypal would be so flush. You'll have a hard time using paypal for stuff in E.Europe... Let alone in Ukraine.
Again, I both enjoy his content and agree with Lira a litany of issues. But he stayed in Karkhov because he wanted to, and that want was most likely career/greed driven. IMO once the war was over, he would rake in oodles from online persona & journalism pay and then retire on the book sales revenue. After all, this would've made for his second successfully selling book...
What a dumbass.
Never tell your enemy about your movements, finances, etc.