Mark Brown, of Game Maker's Toolkit, puts out vids on Youtube that get a couple hundred thousand views (1 or 2 vids a month). So he could theoretically get a couple hundred from those. But his Patreon following nets him a couple thousand a month ($11k!)
When you have niche content you can end up getting way more per subscriber if people feel your content is worth it.
I think that genre allows for showing those scammy get rich quick motivational guru type ads, which pay well. Everyone else has to be sponsored by ExpressVPN and CuriosityStream.
I also get a lot of Farage's new presumably penny stock product adds ( just let those play out to maker sure he's paying out)
What strikes me as odd is those super low quality portrait videos with uncanny valley synthesised like I am going to buy that crap?
Did he break that down publicly or do you get your info from elsewhere? I've always been curious to know what a typical high profile youtuber income flow looks like, and how much they're really tied to Youtube.