here's a thought, sponsors pay out their deals via subs. Viewer counts will always be higher during a subathon, speculating view bots is a bit silly. A lot of streamers viewbot, it is what it is.
The more interesting part, is how for a lot of these subathons, the massive gifters always come from new or recent follow accounts. For these large streamer subathons, I have a hunch that these sponsors or other payouts are happening via gifted subs. Because it's a TOS grey area and it benefits the streamer more than a check. so imagine bang agreed to plaster their brand all over the house and overlay for 30 days straight. For streamers as large as cinna, and definitely kai...that's worth at least thousands of gifted subs. Marketing is expensive as a mother fuck. Adn these drones will buy out a gas station to drink whatever their streamer drinks.
At the end of the day, subathon or not- cinna makes a fuck ton of money from streaming. and to the guy that said 100 gifted subs only paid out to 2-3 bucks for the month...You're literally full of shit, unless those gifted fell onto the next and not current pay period or if the guy reported the charge and tried to reimburse it.
TLDR: cinna is not poor