DeleteLawZ Jose “Chille” DeCastro’s recent temporary exit from the GoFundMe race by suspending campaigns – without offering refunds – had little to no impact on the market this week as our own Ongoing Expenses campaign edged out Long Island Audit’s Support Freedom Stand Against Tyranny Together fund by taking in $10.00 to the LIA fund’s $8.00 to win Friday.
If DeCastro had been in the race, he more than likely would have pulled in more blanks as DeCastro’s new focus has been trying to get his friends and family to pay him a $10.00 monthly fee to join his revived Patreon account.
As of Saturday morning, DeCastro’s Patreon stands at 31 members, with two paid members. DeCastro currently is selling $10.00 access per video to non-members on his site, including charging $10.00 a video to access individual YouTube shorts.
DeCastro, has been complaining of financial woes for the past three months, claiming at various times that an unspecified “they” were conspiring against him and were forcing him to delete his main channel and start over.
After weeks of that claim, DeCastro abruptly stopped making those claims, stopped mentioning the mysterious “they” and announced that his fans could truly support him by going to his Patreon account. Without linking to said account or providing more promotion than “go to my Patreon account.”
The YouTuber recently completed a move from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Los Angeles, California and has been claiming that his revenue from YouTube has been down significantly.
While observed super chats and membership donations still earn him several hundred dollars per live stream, according to social blade, his main channel continues a pattern of being down 62.5% in new subscribers and down 53.5% in views for the past 30 days.
DeCastro’s DLZ Clips channel is flat at 0.0% subscriber growth while his views on that channel are actually up 14.3%. His American Patriot channel is also flat with new subscribers but is trending downward with a 16.8% drop in video views for the past 30 days.
According to Social Blade, he still has a high-end estimate of $27,879.00 in revenue per month across the three channels from YouTube monetization, not considering super chats, super stickers, memberships or super thanks.
Despite his massive earnings, DeCastro announced on his Friday night live stream that he was being forced to increase the price of his trifolds from their current $12.00 pricing to $15.00 on Monday. He also announced that he can no longer afford to eat the cost on lost or wrongfully delivered packages; his customers will now have to pay $11.00 in shipping costs to have “lost” packages replaced.
He is also charging his Patreon supporters $11.00 in shipping on top of their monthly dues to obtain the trifolds and 5A cop cards promised by the premium $25.00 and $100.00 a month level membership.
DeCastro has only blamed the loss of YouTube revenue for his sudden bout of internet poverty. However, DeCastro does have significant legal fees as he agreed to pay for Garrett “Press with Racon” Van Nett’s legal fees, his own legal fees for lawyers in his California based lawsuit against Kate Peter, Team Skeptic, Blue Bacon and Daniel Clement and his federal lawsuit against the Las Vegas Metro Police Department.
But are those costs enough to eat a possibility of nearly $30,000.00 a month in revenue?
On that note, if you’d like to help someone who really is living in self-declared poverty, or to keep the bastard Jim Finch writing this dreadful column each day, you can contribute to the GoFundMe run by this very channel (https://gofund.me/b8144e31). All proceeds go to keeping the lights on, eating, and writing new stories to feature here and on reallycoolsite.org.
