Royalroad has been growing like crazy, and pretty much anything that makes it to the trending page will get a couple people in the comments asking the author to

Royalroad has been growing like crazy, and pretty much anything that makes it to the trending page will get a couple people in the comments asking the author to hurry up and make a patreon page for themselves. WNs definitely seem like a great way for a decent writer to side-hustle without having to write and publish an entire book first, since you can just publish chapters as you go. RavensDagger, One of the authors that I follow, posted an infographic of their 2020 work & earnings: https://i.redd.it/0cur92r6ll861.jpg https://i.redd.it/0cur92r6ll861.jpg No actual earnings numbers, but Pirateaba is probably the highest paid person on the platform with north of 4k patrons at various tiers, although they recently switched to publishing on their own website only rather than using RR.