OK somebody enlighten me. What does it cost to make a youtube video? I assume there is a little equipment required; video camera, a computer, maybe a sound system. I suspect lots of youtubers get by with the computer and nothing else if its equipped with camera and microphone. He already has those.
The starting cost is about $200, a cheap phone is all you need (and most people will already have one more than capable). You don't need fancy production equipment because you're not creating the next Star Wars blockbuster - it's meant to be about the message and the content (right?) and who cares about fancy lighting? These are temporary videos, quickly past their sell-by-date. No one is watching them in 10 years time like they're Titanic or Avatar.
I can't see where he has to spend money to put out content. Of course he thinks he needs to be paid to do this. Sorry Lloyd, it appears that nobody is buying what you're selling.
He doesn't need and likely doesn't spend the money on video production. He spends the money on, ehem, "other activities", but for some reason people won't donate when you tell them you want to go whoreing in foreign lands...
The "activism" is just a front to raise money from the gullible, for a cause they are more likely to support, because they have their own unresolved issues.
Your costs can be as little as you want or as much as you want to pretend and everything in between. None of it is really necessary.