ajhahn wrote:
Those membership numbers seem like a massive overshoot.
I watch tons of sailing channels. Many of them have Patreon accounts. One of the largest sailing channels - SV Delos with 800k YouTube subs - has 1938 Patreon subscribers.
Sailing Good Bad and Ugly - with similar YouTube subs as SJD - has 703 Patreon subs.
I'd wager that SJD has less than 1000 YouTube memberships.
Based off of those numbers as a reference point, I would absolutely agree that my guestimate was too aggressive. He just didn't seem that financially ignorant back in the day...that's what makes this so confusing to me.