Jack Packard was the one that said "We’d be fine without Yahtzee". His excuse is that he though Frost was talking about hypothetical situations.
Even in a hypothetical situation - there's no Second Wind without Yahtzee. People aren't mad because of the drama, people just think (correctly) that's a remarkably dumb stance to have. You are participating in this company and shouldn't even
say something stupid
Quite literally only two of the SWG content creators have ever been profitable - one of them left and is openly badmouthing your company. Losing the second one (and the #1 to boot) would be catastrophic and the entire company would die inside of...
Well, let's take an actual guess.
They're currently losing $5,000 a month (as of the last financial report). They have $183,000 on hand - so if they tread water they're going to bleed out in 3 years. Without losing Yahtz.
Looking at their popular content to get a "lay of the land" - but their
40 most popular videos.
34 of them are something "Ramblomatic" from Yahtzee
4 are "Cold Takes" from Frost, who recently angrily left.
2 are "Design Delves" from J-M8
So let's napkin math and assume that 85% of the content income comes from Yahtz - because 85% of the
popular content comes from Yahtz and put that through their most recent financial report.
Youtube Revenue = $13166/month. Minus Yahtz (*.15 to remove 85%) = $1975/month.
Twitch = $426/month. Minus Yahtz = $63.95/month
Patreon = $54911/month. Minus Yahtz = $8236.65/month
Merch = $360/month. Minus Yahtz = $54/month
Sponsors = $23,280/month. Minus Yahtz = $3492.55/month
Donations = $331/month. Minus Yahtz = $49.65/month
Total Income = 92,462.31/month. Without Yahtz = $13869.35/month (resulting in a net loss of $78593/month)
Yahtz's salary = $12500/month (allegedly) which would no longer have to be paid gives us a theorhetical new loss of $66093/month if Yahtz left.
Combining it with the existing loss of $5000/month - this gives us a new monthly loss of $71093/month. Given the warchest amount - The site would die a horrible death in 2.5 months without Yahtz.
This is using the last quarterly report also - the one where they still had a sales department
and a #2 content creator. Those guys left angrily so it would be even worse.
TL;DR - The site would have a quick but painful death very quickly it Yahtz left. If a Kiwifarms Shitposter can napkin math this out in 10 minutes, I'd expect someone who actually works at the company to be a bit more aware about it.
Also unrelated but speaking of Lazy -
https://jackpackard.com/home has 0 Escapist or Second Wind content on it. For fuck's sake your a struggling website trying to attract sponsors take a few fucking minutes and clean your shit up.
