The books
Every dollar, in and out.
Blacksimon has published the stream's finances every month since 2020 — not a summary, the actual ledger. It runs at a deliberate loss. If it ever turns a real profit, that money goes back to the community as giveaways.
He drew $9,281.98 out of the company over the years, and paid every cent of it back — so his personal take, so far, is nothing. This is a live figure: as he starts drawing a modest wage, it will go up, and it'll be published here when it does.
This year, as it happens
From 2026 the books are kept here rather than in a spreadsheet — every purchase filed under a real category as it's made, published month by month.
2020 to 2025, in full
Six years of it, kept in a spreadsheet and updated live on stream every month. It's closed now and stays exactly as it was — the original is here, unedited.
Where the money came from
Almost all of it is people watching. No brand appears anywhere on this list, and that is rather the point of it.
Where it went
171 individual purchases. Cameras and audio dominate, because that is what a stream actually costs. The rest went to giveaways, tax, and paying the people who help run the show.
He pays the team
The recap team builds the review database the whole site rests on. They volunteer, and they get paid anyway — $1,673 so far, itemised like everything else.
What he took out
$9,281.98 across six years, recorded as loans rather than profit, and paid back in full. Any wage he draws from here on gets published the same way.
The biggest single purchases
- $2,610Company back taxesOwed by the LLC, paid off
- $2,563Sony FX2 cinema cameraThe main stream camera
- $1,885Sony ZV-E1 face cameraThe face cam
- $1,864New streaming PCCPU, motherboard, RAM, SSD, power supply, cooler
- $1,849Sony A7C cameraThe keyboard close-up camera
- $1,340Recap team paymentPaying the mods who build the review database
- $1,323Thocctober giveaway fundHis October income, given away
- $1,195Sony 90mm macro lensFor the close-up keyboard shots
Don't take his word for it
The ledger says Twitch paid him $13,374.62 between May 2022 – Dec 2025. Twitch's own revenue export, for exactly the same period, says $14,158.50.
The gap is six percent, and it is payout timing — December's money arrives in January. The books check out against the platform that writes the cheques.
What it bought, in hours
2,261.9 hours live, across 786 separate days.
