The long version is how I got to this conclusion.
Im writting this as im searching and trying to better understand this stuff now, so sorry if I get something wrong.
According to SocialBlade LP makes this much.
The issue here is that this is wrong. The subcriber numbers and views should be right, it just takes them from youtube (unless youtube rounds the numbers) but the revenue is far from right.
First 4 dollars is actually really low for European and American countries. According to some people its usually triple. But theres also the fact that just how much money per 1000 views an ad is gonna give you.
This means if LP was making 12$ per ad, his "How to kill a god" video would give him a total of 19200$ if every viewer saw 1 ad that paid that much. Since different ads could be played on the video and I assume pay different rates this would lower it + the fact is that not every viewer also gets ads. According to youtube.
He could also get multiple ads, that could increase the number of ad impressions thus making him more money so the number could be actually higher. (LP makes long videos that can play more ads thats partially why youtubers make long videos.) And of course theres also the youtube cut. Youtube takes 45% of a video revenue. So that makes 19200 x 0.45 = 8640. He is either making more or less than that, its hard to tell really.
CPM is really not a good metric to use to understand how much a person makes from a video it haves too many things influencing it and its only money from advertisers.
RPM is much better metric to use for a videos and a channels revenue.
The problem is, its only shown to the creator. So unless I have a way to see all of monetized views LP got in a video + how much each paid I can only make a very inacurate estimation.
Also I have no idea about CPR that is when you click on a ad and how much youtube premium gives to the creator.
So to calculate a youtube video revenue the equation would be something like:
(CPM*ad impressions) + CPR + youtube premium + Super chats + Super Sticker + Youtube members - youtube cut.
And of course that is if you aren't losing money from some other bullshit.
Now theres other ways to make more consistent revenue. Patreon and merch.
And heres the actuall why he is doing just fine.
He writes this thing as a joke but the irony is that he is right, YOU shouldn't give him money for low quality content. But despite that he makes a decent ammount of money. Now lets check LP merch. (If you buy this shit I honestly can't say what opinion I have of you but its something negative, literally just give money to charity).
If this is true he makes no money from it.
Conclusion. While I am not aware of the cost of living in scotland bigger cities LP is probably living a comfortable life just from is Patreon alone. I know what having 2k every month is like. For a family. I imagine LP doesnt have any kids is probably doing just fine. The total amount of money he made from youtube is probably way lower than half a million. I am sure its still really good money. He gets millions of views on his videos over the course of months. His channel growth is rather slow compare to the views but its growing. His videos are long allowing to have more ads and if get people to watch the hole thing he gets bigger RPMs. Youtube also pays less or more if you have a niche, thats something to consider. So while I can't say how much money he actually makes from each video. I can conclude that he is definitely making good money from it(really not surprising to anyone) + 2k at the end of every month.
Now LP does have 1 expense that I want to highlight. You know the video I used as an exemple to try understand how much money he pulls from youtube anus? That video thats the same fucking background footage playing on a loop that is about a theory of his that is poorly explained and poorly sourced. That video was only possible cause LP saw another video by another creator. He does say this but what he doesn't say is that video is litreally everything his video isn't. Good.
its actually well explained, and its source material is not only displayed to you in the actual video, he also puts alot of effort more than he usually does, to list it for anyone to see.
After all he haves a theory he wants to share with the world and wants to be taken seriously. He actually haves to put effort into giving a proper explanation on why he believes what he believes and is true to him.
If you compared this to LP video.
A book, several articles, 1 cia document a 1 hour long video. And I have no idea what am I supposed to be looking for in all of these reading material. On top of that if you actually watch sarcasmitron video you would know that LP defenition of color Revolution is actually wrong. And that he doesn't understand what it actually is considering the things he says after giving the defenition. At least he is not following the video where he claimed to take most of his information about the subject.
Sarcasmitron video is 1 year older than LP's but, despite lp recomending it. It haves a fraction of LP views.
Sarcasmitron asks very little from his fans and also gets very little in comparison.
Now To be fair and balence to LP, Sarcasmitron did 4 videos regarding his theory, those sources are from all of them, and he does have 1 video that got Millions of views.
But it doesnt change the fact that LP didn't put that much effort into his video, that he got stuff wrong from his sources, that he doesn't actually properly display his sources. And that he used another creators theory that he didn't quite understand to make his video and end up way more succesful than the person that actually posted something with actual Quality.
What I am trying to say here is.
You can make something that is well researched, well written, have sources for your arguments and have no fear in actually displaying them in the video making it easier for the audience to understand and throw some jokes in there but remain consistant and accurate in your explenation. For this you get no views in comparrison to a literally ManPig that comes around, takes part of your arguments and frankenstein it to his own arguments. Put it a video that its just the same music and footage on a loop while he reads its script with a confiden voice and emotion to it like he just wants you to listen to it, like its a goddam podcast, while never actually displaying any sources for his arguments, to an audience of people (mostly teens) that never actually stop to question the things he says. Regurgitate a rethoric thats literally propaganda while also denouncing another and insulting others over their naivety, and their lack of critical thinking, that he also displays in the same video. He is neither smart, a good writter and hardworking individual. At least in this particular video. But for some reason that I still dont comprehend, most of his fans see it completly different than me. You can make good videos but youtube just gonna push and reward slop, so you might as well just make slop.
(dont take this as he steals from small creators, im just saying that youtube doesn't reward quality but you probably dont need to be told that).
But hey, Im proud to announce that LP at least gave a total of 5 bucks of his well earned money to Sarcarsmitron and is a patreon member, right after he made his video. (and also posted his video on the same day sarcasmitron posted this video).
