Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20180322113157/@comment-28951715-20180506192539

@Dizzy Okay then, consider this; Aki put out a tweet in that explanation thread (I will try and hunt it down for you bc it was an interesting little run from a few weeks ago and I'd love to show it to you), a picture of a little booklet that she and her dad had run through all the costs on for the last concert they had in Europe. It was a little over 3k, which was over their budget and they ended up losing money.

But if their concerts only cost 3k, that's a very small percentage of that 20k. Now granted, doing as many concerts as they do, I'm sure that'd be run through very quickly, however there's also the profit they're supposed to be making off of their merchandise, as well as their Patreon (which last I checked was still in the 300 USD range per month). What that's telling me is that they're losing money on the merchandise that sucked up so much of their 20k, and it doesn't seem like a sustainable model for the concerts.

So what that says is that this whole thing has essentially become a charity case, which I wonder if it could've been avoided if they had better spent and strategized on their money. There's nothing we can do for it now, but it really is disappointing to see how the concert turned out after all that hype.