Not that it makes a difference to eligibility, or in this case lack of eligibility, but Amber didn't have ovarian cancer, she had endometrial cancer aka uterine cancer. Still not eligible as per the link. If she'd left ovarian cancer raging in her body for years, she'd probably be dead by now.
Thanks - my apologies to everyone for the error regarding the typing of her "cancer".
It is to be of note that this is the first of Amber's Mukbangs in years and I mean like 4 years to barely kiss 70k views. If I was her, I would be worried because THAT is her fallback. Everything from now on appears to be a diminishing return. The problem is when numbers drop, the time for people leaving is unsustainable because it is something she has no control over.
Her views overall since going to the bare minimum/least possible effort business model are total shit. The first live, the ones where she bitching and moaning and crying, and the one with "weight" in the title are the only ones to get near or over the 100K threshold. A month ago, almost all her eating vids are over that magical number, and her haul (the one where she wastefully buys four of the same purses in different colors as some stupid flex) is sharply lower than even the downward trend of her haul videos. For someone who enjoyed 100K+ views regularly, this has to be worrisome, but not just yet into the panic arena.
I cannot even really think how she could get out of this at this point because being below one million views is bad. This is removing past content of the month because it kind of does not count because you have to view it from a month to month basis and if it is hitting numbers.
I she start pumping out mukbangs and more diet starts/fails - and she really should, these are legitimately the only skills she has - she could start creeping back up. The hate watching on those is higher, and it also ropes in the reaction channels, which drives engagement.
Interestingly enough I went back to I'm back and the views of her current content adds up to 819,000 meaning 302,000 of her views are legacy views. The second those views dip on legacy to 100,000 is the time she should just quit Youtube. Amber's content the last year especially has been non-replayable to anyone because it is so boring.
Those are terrible numbers. I've seen people in the comments of her lives complaining about how boring she is and suggesting other things she could do for content: book reviews, learning a hobby like knitting, learning how to cook and doing cook with me vids, ride with mes (presumably Becky hauling her ass around town and then sitting in the car while Becky actually does the errands), visiting some of the sites and beauty in nature in KY, and so on. As well-intentioned as they may be, she is not going to do any of these things, and as longtime viewers, they should know better.
If she is in tax issues like she said then she is in an incredibly uncomfortable position. I find it really interesting though that Amber and Chantal's channels are both imploding at the same time almost like it is a trend.
Not so much a tax issue as a liquidity issue, I'd imagine. If she wasn't so useless and stupid about money, she could have had her money working for her all these years, or at least the past six or seven, when she was making real money, to offset the hit of taxes. Of course, if she wasn't stupid, she'd also be making quarterly payments so she doesn't take that giant hit once a year, and if she'd done any investing with something that throws off dividends or interest on a regular basis, that itself could have gone to partially pay those taxes. She's relying on memberships and superchats that a are fickle and not something that can really be plotted accurately, trend-wise, for even a month ahead.
If you consider what she has to offer, her best bet would be mukbangs on the public channel, and some kind of icky thing like OF or patreon for feeders and kinksters - really high calorie meals, like the actual mukbangers in the US do, and of courseL layyygs. Eventually, anything she put in there would make it into the wild, but like reaction channels talking about her YT channel, that also drives engagement.
Amber is still making a good amount of money considering the contents that she puts out. Her problem is that she has no discipline as per her finance, or at least as much as her diets. While she claims that she has a budget, her budget likely consists of a list of expenses that she must pay monthly; rent, mobile, automobile insurance, utilities, etc. Her gross income after YT cut is around $2.5k a month. Not bad but not enough to live in luxury. She is going through her saving but seems to not care, as buying a load of graphic novels.
She reminds me of professional football players who get giant contracts to sign with a team and then two years later are out of the league and bankrupt, or those people who win the lottery and also wind up bankrupt after couple of years. Her YT fame and the money that comes with it is a total fucking waste on her.
How are you arriving at 2.5K per month net after YT takes their slice of the pie? They have 1K minimum in rent alone. I'd think she'd be rather more frantic than she is if her take home is that low.