Twitch - my subs, gift subbing and related charities donations + Patreon fees = £15,000

Almost £15,000 gifted

I am a late arriver to twitch.  I think i started watching content in around 2022.  I focus almost purely on Eve Online.

And my first gift sub was in May 2023 to ContempoEnterprises who is still going strong.

Since then i now pay monthly subs to some content creators i like, get involved in gifting subs, donate to Charities fronted by Eve content creators on Twitch and contribute to Patreon fees.

So, i wondered how much in total i had spent in total since then to 31 December 2024.

The answer is almost £15,000.

. . . . . . and its all in my budget, so no worries there.

Monthly Subs (=£370)

I currently have monthly subs for 7 content creators.  They come at about £5 per month.

contempoenterprises (20 months subbed)

oz_eve (19 months subbed)

eve_university (14 months subbed)

funinc (13 months subbed)

bigglesworthxd (4 months subbed)

theoneandonlysidar (3 months subbed)

nth_dimensional (1 months subbed)

Gift Subs (=£8,620)

I have gifted 2,155 subs.

This is where i gift a monthly sub to a specific or random member of the audience.  I can gift anywhere from 1 to 100 subs at any one time.  And i suspect i have done the complete range.

(I had to recall the content creators i had gifted to work this out, the Twitch Wallet Payment History page stops working quite quickly).

I suspect the average price is £4 per sub - it varies with discounts for volume and seasonal discounts.

I will say right now, Twitch do it well and they know what they are doing: starting or sustaining a hype train is exhilarating; gifting with less than a minute to go on the hype train is great fun; taking content creators to new records puts me on a high.

oz_eve - gifted 1597 subs

raff_about_it - gifted 152 subs

theoneandonlysidar - gifted 147 subs

contempoenterprises - gifted 117 subs

dangerous_d666 - gifted 50 subs

nth_dimensional - gifted 45 subs

schadsquatch - gifted 19 subs

funinc - gifted 10 subs

crashnaps - gifted 6 subs

sniperkrizz - gifted 6 subs

asuralite - gifted 1 subs

imperiumnews - gifted 1 subs

milkonedge - gifted 1 subs

moon_wolf83 - gifted 1 subs

spacedoutblonde - gifted 1 subs

uedamascout - gifted 1 subs

Charities (=£5,070)

Eve players often have 24 hour charity streams for their favourite causes which i donate to.

schadsquatch / ExtraLife $1570

spacedoutblonde / ExtraLife $1185

sokaars_legions / ExtraLife $3207

contempoenterprises / Cancer Charity £300

I know there are one or two others i have done but can't find the records of.

In the (UK) tax year to April 2024, i spent another £7,400 on non-Eve Charitable donations (so not included in the £15k here) which will only include £300 of the above - donations to overseas charities does not get any tax relief so i don't record this on the Tax Return.

In the UK charity donations are paid out of gross income and therefore when i donate to UK charities the first 20% of the overpaid tax goes to the charity and then the following 25% comes back to me.  Hence, if i donate £80 to a charity then the charity gets an additional £20 and i get £25 back.

Patreon - Eve related (=£794)

I also contribute to Patreon for the following Eve Content generators, some monthly and some annually.

Xre Sloracknor for 51 months, ongoing =$510 (since 2020) (this is evetycoon)

The Oz (Oz_Eve) for 1 year, ongoing =£224

Declarations of War for 4 months, ongoing =$60

What for 2025?

Well, this all depends on my year end bonus at work which i will know in January.