Let's humor Bob for a moment.
I'll near-guarantee he is in the 22% tax bracket, if Geek.com and Screen whatever the fuck pay him enough to put his earnings over 83k I'm going to have a stroke at the fact that he complains about money troubles.
So he pays 22% taxes like me. He also pays the other half of medicare and social security. Usually you pay half while your employer pays the other half. He's self employed so he pays both halves.
We do have to make some assumptions so that we're not going crazy with math and unknown variables:
- His only income is Patreon
- His current Patreon income ($4,564/mo) is consistent through the year.
At a base level, Google's quick calculator says he should make about $54,768 this year.

There are several online calculators that help determine how much you pay in your self-employment taxes. I've used the one provided by
TaxACT. According to this calculator, he will be paying $7738 over the course of a year.

That's ALREADY not nearly as bad as you would think. But remember, your self-employment tax is really just the fact that, since you are your own employer, you have to pay both halves of medicare and social security. So, really, when it comes to how much worse he has it than people who get W-2's, it's really only half that, or $3,869, according to google dot com's calculator, but I'll stop posting screenshots.
Now, let's amortize that out even further, because that's three thousand, eight hundred sixty-nine United States Petrodollars over the course of a
year he pays in more taxes than someone who gets a W-2. According to my trusty numbermajig he's paying $322.42 per month more than standard waged employees.
Cry me a fucking river, Bob. You can't fit $330 a month out of $4600 into your damn budget? Not to mention the amount you fucking spend on stupid video game ephemera and seeing Marvel capeshit movies like Black Panther ten times -- BECAUSE IT'S YOUR JOB -- that you can itemize as deductions you probably get to pay even less than me in taxes.
Learn to manage your money.