Since we're talking about vtubers, maybe we should look at vtubers.

https://playboard.co/en/youtube-rank...orldwide-total

In this list, the top 4 are all vtubers. Obviously youtube takes a cut, and if they're corporate, that takes a cut too, but that's not exactly a small amount of money, although that's over years of streaming. Amusingly enough, the top two in that list are both retired for over a year now - the 3rd is still active and she's the most popular female streamer in the world, with 6.48 million hours watched during the first quarter of 2023.

Jeph's established that Marigold, while popular, isn't the top level of popularity since that's apparently Aurelia. But it is certainly possible that she's made enough money - especially if she's done subathons which usually result in quite a lot of people subbing and donating money - that she could at least afford the down payment on a big fancy house and be able to keep up with the mortgage payments, depending on the financing.

Then again Jeph also had someone randomly donate 4.5 billion dollars to charity as a vague punchline without ever looking into what that really means so I don't think he's thinking about this as deeply as I am, but...