Sure, I'm sure he gets decent money from ads too. My point was that, I don't see why he needs sponsors in the first place. My 5000$ estimate was a bare bare min

Sure, I'm sure he gets decent money from ads too. My point was that, I don't see why he needs sponsors in the first place. My 5000$ estimate was a bare bare minimum. Realistically, I would guess around $10k-$15k from Patreon and another $5k from Youtube at least (he has 1M subscribers, which is the "Made it" threshold).