Just a reminder for everyone that mald has been saying that his ferret streams, which is another twitch channel, funds the rescue on its own and is entirely self sufficient with the audience it has because it is advertiser friendly content (iirc around 2k ccv when he said this) Whether mald streams on his channel or not does not affect it. That's what he says, anyway, so it must be true!
except the ferret stream has a subscribe button, bits, then theres; dlc, merch, youtube ads. so where does it go if ad revenue does all the heavy lifting ( and it makes way more than is needed )? is he really separating the ads from subs and bits? because that's not how it works.
twitch bundles it all together and it's paid out per month, even if there's a visible breakdown for creators of how much each vector of income created, maybe he does napkin math and calls it a day and ignores his accountant when they're doing mental backflips and 2 degrees away from killing themselves, im sure they would though if they saw the shit he said about how money is handled on his stream.
this is basically self reporting as exhibition
the ferret stream's avg viewers and watch hours roughly go x20 ( watch hours are also similar ), safe to say ad revenue follows somewhat. ( this is with controversy + follower loss lmao )
mald himself proclaims in march/april he accrued ~4x what he needs to take care of about 10 ferrets from adrev alone. ( potential ad revenue was most likely equal for both months, their numbers are almost identical )
this is to showcase the ferret count in what would be roughly march, and over time.
his watch time to ferret ratio went up ~5.5x, hours watched ~32x ( for june at least, since we're still in july ). ( for january/the peak, it was 56x the watch hours with ~9.5x the watched-hours:ferret ratio ) and we can somewhat say watched hours = money, for the ratio.
even if we're strict and halved it ( which is unrealistic because people tune in with adblockers off under the guise that it's very supportive and it's a good cause ), it's still a monster amount of money alone. yea there's no doubt the argument against going for 501c falls apart ( which has been said before, but hopefully this will have more logic tied to the argument ) just from the very first month of him streaming, since he'd never have to put money into the actual ferret business, it pays for itself, it's only because he'd be taking money out of it that'd be the part he doesn't want seen.
he'd also still be able to legally build a ~million dollar facility like he's been talking about without it ever being shady, it can be started under the ferret business and he can personally fund it through the charity.
and he'd look like a non piece of shit for actually getting tax deductions on other people's money for building something he believed in and others' willfully funded toward, if anything he'd get even more support as an actual charity, but the cookie jar is a one way street and that's no good for him.
e: forgot to add, if he truly separates his ferret business like he's supposed to, i'm 99% sure any revenue going to the ferret business would not be allowed to be split up later(subs->personal & adrev->ferretbank), just another reason to not go the charity route without triggering irs