/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

To clarify:

Festival is not 'broke' as in, actually out of money. You have to understand the way she handles her finances.

When she started streaming, because of how uncertain the line of work actually is, she decided to save a lot of her money for if it ever went south. This normalised into a fixed amount of money every month that she would aim at saving, which got easier over time (because her stream career grew rapidly, esp. after covid)

The benchmark she put on her saving never grew though, This resulted in that she had more 'F-you' money left to consoom product and buy the things she liked or create custom merch.

She then got to the point where she was comfortable enough to get herself an apartment in Tokyo. However, because most of the money she was now earning was getting gobbled up by the incredible size of all the crap she was buying or is (still) subbed to, it meant that really all she had for moving out was her savings money.

So she started spending her savings on her apartment, furniture, getting stuff renovated etc. This had a more dramatic impact on her savings than she anticipated (mom won't pay the bills anymore). Now add inflation and a slowing down of subs and viewers to the situation, and we've gotten to the point her spending and saving benchmark have nullified eachother. Every new thing she wants now, has to come from savings.

She's not broke, she just has to cut her spending habits and it's eating her up inside because her savings is what made her feel safe.