Check your sources. Fortunately they never hid their numbers and we can easily take a look at them at
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As it happens, they never got 10k per month, not even at their peak (9.9k, Oct 25, 2021). And their number of subscribers never went beyond 2.3k and currently sits at 1.6k, so that's the max number of persons who could have been actually paying 'for nothing' during the last 28 months in a row (the time actually passed since the last update) -and obviously they are less than that, as every month there's some people coming and going. In the last 12 months they've lost 250 subscribers that never got replaced, and they are currently earning 1.5k less per month than exactly a year ago (or 21% less, if you prefer) and 3.5k less than at their peak (or 36% less). They are now cashing in 6.4k gross per month, which translates into roughly 4k per month at most once you detract Patreon's cut and taxes, and is way less than your claimed 10k unless you're using some obscure currency instead of dollars or euros.
You can still feel the same about it but at least don't try to fool people (and yourself) with false, invented data. Being a developer yourself, that's pretty mean and even counterproductive. Who is gonna believe you if/when you'd need to explain your own shortcomings, if you're proven to have lied in other instances like that?
