How do these stats compare to your state from the US?

This commenter is wondering how much money I make on TikTok when I'm getting bombarded with hate comments versus how much money I make when I'm making my regular daily content. The short answer is that I make 10 to 100 times more money during seasons of bullying. If you are new here and don't know my backstory, a couple years ago I installed a game off of a floppy disk because I thought it'd be fun and cute to do. I referred to this thing as a floppy disk, which it is one. And I got a bunch of hate comments, people telling me that I was too stupid and too woman to know about technology. I did end up making several hundred dollars that first round of videos, probably about 300 to 400 dollars. The second time it happened because I am a retro tech channel, I guess, I made about the same. About 600 to 700 dollars over the course of a few weeks, just responding to people's claims that this is a diskette, not a floppy disk. People were very enraged by that. That was probably my most hate-watched video. It got the most engagement. And I think on just that individual video, that probably brought in about 400 of those dollars. I'm looking at my stats for the past 60 days. I've been trying to post consistently at least once a day, sometimes up to three times a day. And I have earned a whopping $94.59 from the creator rewards program. It says it's less than 10% of my earnings rate during the last round of controversy despite posting deliberately every day and spending many hours on videos. I've also earned like 1360 from Live Rewards and then a few people are subscribing to me, which I'm going to fade out and replace with a Patreon. It totals $1,160.03 from the past 60 days. It says it's a 44% drop from the previous 60 days. So it's evidently profitable to make ragebait and artificial controversy on this app because TikTok rarely rewards you otherwise. My last video to get "additional rewards" (TikTok's bonus for engagement) was about Gen Z and what we grew up with, which is a debate topic on here. I made more money from that video of me casually talking than I did my well-edited videos that got twice as many views that took hours to put together. So it's not really incentivized to make good, informative, and entertaining content. It's incentivized to make ragebait content. Because of my mental health, I can't be incentivized to constantly try to talk about floppy disks so that haters and ignorant people can argue with me. I had a bad time last time. But it would be nice to get several hundred dollars off of one video again. That's why people do it. It's because it makes so much more money than regular entertaining and informative content. Because people actually engage with your video when they're mad about it. That's, unfortunately, just how it works. Because of my mental health, I can't be incentivized to constantly try to talk about floppy disks so that haters and ignorant people can argue with me. I had a bad time last time. But it would be nice to get several hundred dollars off of one video again.