Why is having a Patreon account sound like it's being derided? Most content creators cannot live off of YT revenue alone, especially if they don't take on paid sponsors they shill for by inserting 3 minute tangents about eSim cards. The audience wants steady weekly+ content from their favorite creators, so they give money to them to support them. It makes enough sense to me. Ideally those creators then provide extra videos or other bonuses on Patreon, but I do recognize many of them aren't reliable this way with their Patreon output.
Why does it matter if she works full time or not at the shops? This is a long-term couple who work together to produce travel content. It's their shared job. They are self-employed. This doesn't seem controversial to me and while I do think there are transactional elements to their relationship based on her being younger and coming from seemingly less, I don't see anything we can confidently call out as pure exploitation running one way or the other. I definitely get people wondering out loud (I wonder too) but like obsessing about her hypothetical work schedule is strange business.