Youtube - the great life!

You have to have a million subs and a butt load of Patreon members and of course Merch. A couple of the whiskey You tubers I follow are around the $75,000 mark with Patreon. They also have 100,000+ subscribers. Rick Beato has 4.5 million subs. He's doing ok for himself. He's full time too and sells his music lessons online as well. He has a list of supporters but No Patreon that I can see. Others have a huge Patreon list but no published figures for their pay outs.