I don't even want to speculate on whether or not she makes the money she shows in the video. I think it's hard to gauge as, like she rightfully says in her video (I will give her that), the whole influencer world is so hush hush about money in a lot of ways and it makes it hard to understand how much money is the norm. So I will just believe that these are her real earnings.
If these are the real numbers, this makes her complaining about being "stuck" in a situation and blaming it on Covid all the more disingenuous, imo. Her and Thomas have painted themselves as victims of the housing crisis in Ireland saying that they have to live in an attic because of Covid. (They moved in there beforehand, but hey who's keeping score, right?) When during all of this time, from the looks of it, Melanie alone earned a decent enough income and he earned significantly less than expected but still a fair amount. There hasn't been a month during covid, I'd reckon, they haven't gotten paid. Unlike so many others during this pandemic. Add to that the fact that they lived with his family, so expenses would have been low. And yet Melanie painted a dreary picture of how hard it all was on them financially and how impossible.
She says she is aware that she's really lucky and in a good position financially in this vidro, yet over the last year and a half she complained a ton about their financial hardship. Pointing out Thomas's student loans etc etc.
There are ways to point out things like the housing without the "poor little me" spiel, when this is the financial situation. How terrified should normal earning people be then if someone with this kind of income is struggling to get a house or even get by?
I am glad that they got the house they wanted. I really am. Also because the prospect of a couple, with one partner earning the salary of a pilot and the other one earning the amount she specifies in the video, not being able to achieve this would be quite haunting to be perfectly honest.