If you own a restaurant and that’s your main source of income, you have to use your income to sustain your business. You have maintain facilities and equipment, order supplies, restock necessities, replace broken equipment, pay any loans you may have, and pay your employees. You’ll still have money left over for yourself, but a large portion of that income goes towards your self-made business, especially when you first start out.
People are wondering where the money is going because there’s (honestly) little to show for what he’s pulling in. From a customer stand-point, that looks shady and makes you want to not spend money on your product. If you claim you’re selling freshly made pancakes and charging $10 per plate, and the pancakes are soggy, microwave-ready and not made fresh, you’re lying to your consumers and scamming them.
Should all of Alex’s money go towards Yandere Simulator? No, but a portion of his money should be treated like a student loan or grant imo. Example: In trade school you’re given a grant every semester to pay for any expenses that you need. The stipulation was that there was no issue as long as what you were using the money on had an impact on your education. A lot of people in my class commuted, so their funds were spent on car repairs and maintenance (after school books and supplies were bought). Since whether or not their car worked had an impact on their education, there was no issue with where the extra money went.
Alex is running a self-made business and his income from this business should be used to improve it and fine-tune his craft. If he had outside expenditures like an apartment, car, bills, medical expenses, computer repairs, an assistant, paid employees, etc then I doubt most people (read: adults)would care where the money went because they would know/understand these things impacted his job. But Alex lives with his parents, has volunteers that he only pays a few of, doesn’t have an assistant to filter his EMAILS, nearly spent $10k on a subreddit just to stop mean words (if there’s been follow-up on that I’m a few weeks out of the loop, sorry), hasn’t learned new skills or tech, hasn’t evolved his “career” overtime, spends his money on games that he streams on Twitch (and then tries to copy ideas from a better game into his game), and is trying to sell an unfinished, unpolished, concept off as a though it’s a finished product. Follow all that up with him saying he only pays the volunteers if his Patreon bucks go above $3.5k and people will wonder where that initial $3.5k is going since it’s clearly not going towards his business.
As consumers, people are right to be suspicious and ask questions. Alex isn’t delivering the product he originally advertised in a timely or efficient manner, and he doesn’t take criticism or critiques well. He’s needlessly defensive about things a normal business-owner would have to account for and answer. He also doesn’t seem to enjoy his “passion project.” Do I think he’s intentionally scamming people? No. Do I think he’s an idiot with no real world experience and a shitty attitude? Very yes.
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