Hello, Babes!
I felt we were long overdue some autistic posts in the thread, and I'm home with the flu bored out of my skull so please enjoy:
(skip to the end if you just want the numbers)
Have you ever wondered how much money a creator makes on Patreon? While graphtreon exists, which is a great tool for keeping track of the general performance of a creator (see images below), you're very limited to the whims of what the creator wishes to divulge.

(Contra graph for scale. Lmao at how Contra absolutely destroys Choob's Sigma Grindset by doing nothing at all (read opium)).

If the creator (Choob) has hidden the amount you're shit out of luck at finding out any exact sum they get per month. All you get is this range pictured above, which doesn't really say much of anything. So I did a little digging to see if I could come up with a better rough estimate for what income the Choob gets per month from Patreon alone, pre taxes. There are fortunately some key pieces of information to consider that we can glean from the perks of his 10 different tiers:
List of Perks:
$2 - Nothing
$5 - Your name gets listed in the credits of Philosophy Tube
$10 - Your name on the printouts he posts on twitter and tumblr every month
$15 - ++* early access to Chubetube
$20 - ++ BIG NAME in the credits (the list of names that scroll by first in the credits)
$30 - ++ A thank you card
$40 - ++ You are granted one question for the Chube to answer during livestream
$50 - ++ An introductory book to philosophy, signed
$100 - ++ A guide to create an educational YouTube channel
$125 - ++ He will cry
*++ all perks from previous tiers included
The notable pieces of info here are in the $5, $10 and $20 tiers, which tell us what names should show up in which list.
First let's consider the credits of the latest PT.
We now know that every patron who donates $5 and above show up in the credits list, and additionally every patron donating $20 and above shows up in the Big credits list. The big credit takes precedence over the ordinary credit, so the ordinary credits only contain people who donate between $5-15.
I'm not going to go through each name manually, there's way too many. Instead in order approximately count the number of names per list I first estimated the time it takes to fill a screen with names, as well as the total time between the start of the scrolling and the final name being fully visible.


~40 names in ~5 seconds for the Big Credits - total time to see all names: ~25 seconds
~60 names in ~3 seconds for the ordinary credits - total time to see all names: ~153 seconds
From this we calculate an approximate:
(40/5) * 25 = 200 names in the Big Credits aka $20+ patrons
(60/3) * 153 = 3060 names in the ordinary credits aka $5-15 patrons
With that out of the way let's move on to the printouts









The first paper has 31 names on it. The other ones have 64 excluding the final paper which only has 61. Which gives us:
31 + 7*64 + 61 = 540 $10+ patrons
Something we should take note of however is that the names on the first paper are his big spenders, kindly note our friend Diana who throws him $500 tips whenever he streams makes an appearance there. Exactly how much they donate is impossible to tell, but we can make a reasonable deduction given that their names all appear in the Big Credits. Since not all who appear in the Big Credits show up on this special list we can safely assume that these people donate $30+ (I'm positive they give more than that in actuality).
An example to prove my thesis:
Augustin Chiappe - Big Credits, First page of Twitter list
Aaron Conole - Big Credits, Second page of Twitter list
The names are consistent between months as well, so it's not like he's picking out random $20+ donators to show extra appreciation for.
So what we're actually seeing on these lists are:
509 $10-20 patrons
31 $30+ patrons
Final Calculation
With the numbers in place all we have to do is some simple algebra to figure out the sum totals. I can't be arsed to type it all out so you'll have to make do with this shorthand work.
- Total patrons: ~6500
- $5+ patrons: ~3260
- $5-15 patrons: ~3060
- $10-20 patrons: ~509
- $20+ patrons: ~200
- $30+ patrons: ~31
$2 patrons: 6500 - 3260 = 3240 => $6,480/month
$5 patrons: 3060 - 340 = 2720 => $13,600/month
$10-15 patrons: 509 - 169 = 340 => $3,400-5,100/month
$20 patrons: 200 - 31 = 169 => $3,380/month
$30+ patrons: 31 => $930-3,875/month
Summing these up results in a very rough estimate of $27,790-32,435 before Patreon takes their cut. They have a deal with older partners where they take a cut of 5% which lands us at a neat little span between
$26,400-30,813*
*Pre stinky taxes which he may or may not pay
Edit: I got a little carried away with the upper bound estimate, I forgot to account for the span that opens up when you raise the $30+ to a $125. There's not currently enough info to give a definite number there, I do however believe that it's most likely that they're $100+ donators, could be that they are all folks who make him cry with $125 too but my gut tells me no. I'll leave the previous section as is and post the range with the bound I feel is most likely below.
If we assume the First pagers are his $100+ patrons then a theoretical max would be $40,885, after Patreons cut: $38,840
If we assume they're all $125 patrons then we're up to $45,955, after Patreons cut: $43,657. (This option assumes all so called $20+ patrons pay $100 and all $30+ pay $125)
Most likely range of Patreon earnings
$26,400-38,840