Nah, Elliot is loaded. He can easily afford this and I'm sure is backing this and funding other 'members' of DropKiwiFarms. Keffals is just the frontman puppet for Elliot and his friend's crusade against kiwifarms. They chose keffals because he had a lot of exposure from the destiny thing and seemed to be good for optics, they didn't realize Lucas wasn't as squeeky clean as he first appeared which is why they pushed so hard to discredit all of the facts presented about Lucas. Lucas is just a puppet, he wouldn't even be involved if he didn't have 10k followers on twitter, the payday for lucas was a consolation prize.
Elliot and his friends are 100% pulling the strings, organizing these protests, compiling the press kits, advising Lucas what to do/say. Lucas' entire contribution is sitting in front of a camera and tweeting "ratio".
This whole AUS arc is directly related to Elliot's DMCA request to cloudflare illuminating the APNIC IP Ranges. If there was no aussie IP, there would be no aussie cloudflare protest. This is all because of Elliot.
Elliot needs someone like Keffals, because it doesn't look good for him to be the frontman leader of the movement since he's legitimately batshit crazy and has a history with police telling him to take his anti-psychotics and log off.(and is in a relationship with a direct competitor to cloudflare) The fucking retards from pol/discord/wherever that swatted Lucas/MTG put a fire under this and gave them a lot of ammunition unfortunately.
Note; I'd be really interested to see who else is in Elliot's inner circle, he's obviously working with others and they've mostly remained quiet. I'm interested in knowing their motivations as well.