Congratulations to you!! I hope that your efforts continue to bring you everything you hope for.

For me, I think it is hard for me to monetize the content that I really enjoy producing. There's tangentially related things that would probably make a bit more money (native youtube ads, teaching, t shirts), but since I am fortunate enough to have a good day job, I am able to make the content available entirely for free, uninfluenced by profit motives.

Life is just a big navigation of trade-offs, it seems.