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⧖.* 𝙸𝙽𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙴 .

Despite the seemingly common opinion in Gotham that social media ain’t shit, any and all aspects of such Nix has managed to claim as her own… possibly because there’s apparently a vast majority of her peers that remain stuck living in the eighties, as she’d say, so she generally has a monopoly on the market. Even if that wasn’t the case, however, Nix has proven a popular talking point and someone the masses wish to follow every step of the way since she was a child. It’s just that now her audience has changed from paper-reading, gossiping fear mongerers, to twitch chat, insta followers, and onlyfans subs.

Skizm was originally something of an income, perhaps moreso at the beginning when Nix actually did receive a percentage of the streaming services profits at the end of each shoot. Originally Skizm was the more traditional ‘torture porn, red room’ streams, meaning that donations were made live, specifically for the people being shown. Which meant that, even with Riktor’s rather skewed views, the ‘artists’, of which Nix was the most popular, received what they were ‘owed’ according to him. Back in the day Nix mostly spent her money on a little amount of food, the odd hotel room if she was feeling fancy, and drugs. On top of his entrepreneurship, Riktor was also the head of a drug ring, dealing at lesser prices to his Skizm minions. Occasionally Nix would sell some herself, too, for a little extra bump of finances each week. Later on, coke became the only currency the Skizm victors were dealing with. That and free body mods, hence her teeth and numerous tattoos.

She still has the internet in a chokehold, and is certainly deemed a ‘mainstream’ internet celebrity now. Nix is a household name through North America, and is known worldwide too, for good or for bad. With Skizm being a growing ‘business’ at the time, Nix has been watched in every country on earth for more than a few years. She very smartly, once given the freedom and the resources, turned that infamy into viable (and, frankly, legal) profit and income.

INSTAGRAM.

Beginning with her instagram, Nix collected a good few million followers after making one single post, proving to those outside her ‘bubble’ that a large majority were simply waiting with baited breath for her to make her social media return. This, of course, opened the door to her receiving sponsorship deals, largely from more ‘edgy’ or ‘quirky’ companies as a means to relate to her assumed audience. While this wasn’t the most stable source of income, it was her first real one, and she treasured and nursed it from the beginning and now currently boasts over 35million followers and multiple sponsorship deals from various companies from gaming, to men’s grooming (m.anscaped is her most loyal sponsor, don’t even worry about it, but do ask if you want a t-shirt), to beauty and fashion.

With her uniquely high engagement rates, Nix could ask for anywhere between £55.4K – £100K for one single post + one single story if she didn’t have the outside reputation that she does. One top of the profit a company will make by sponsoring her, there is also an assumed loss for associating with a literal mass killer —even if her reputation is slowly turning in Mrs. Wayne first and foremost, thanks to the unseen hands of the Court— so Nix charges far less, and is rarely paid more than £25k for her sponsors. Realistically, that number can go much lower, as she supports smaller business too. It’s a range, never a settled amount.

ONLYFANS.

Her onlyfans subscription is $14.99 a month, with her number of subscribers jumping up and down rather consistently with each month as it goes, but she generally makes anywhere between $15k and $50k a month, depending on where she lands in the top 10% of OF earners. And she is always in the top 10%… if not the top 5%. This may seem like a lot, but with so-called ‘down’ months (her pregnancies, and the fact that she has lessened the amount of collabs she makes with other female creators more recently), she definitely notices any dip in earnings…

TWITCH.

…Which is where her Twitch comes into play. With a subscription fee of $4.99, she averages a steadier little nest each month if she consistently streams her three days a week (tues, thurs, sat). However, a big bulk of twitch subscribers are Prime subs, which are free, or gifted to random viewers each stream. This keeps her sub number up, but doesn’t necessarily flood the bank account with the thousands it ‘should’. Small donations are made throughout each stream, however, which are always welcome, and are usually made by common, recognisable names in chat. These can range from $1.50 to a couple hundred. She's had more than a handful of four-figure gifts, too.

She is also a rare streamer in that she actually pays her mods a percentage of what’s made each stream, as her chat specifically is known to be tempestuous and in dire need of those moderators’ hard work.

MERCH.

With all of the above, it's no surprise that Nix created her own merch. Simple drops of t-shirts with the phrase 'Live, Laugh, Lobotomise' on them two or so years ago has since transcended into an entire clothing line, branded under the same phrase that was the foundation for her success. LLL, or Triple L is now a full store, typically making drops of merchandise four set times each year, a drop for each season. Since its humble beginnings Nix herself has created several infamous designs of the many: Paul the Alien was the first big design after the initial LLL, her Mother of Three line is also one of her most popular, and most recently her I Used To Be Worse line launched and broke all of her previous records.

Random restocks also occur, which she posts countdowns for across all platforms to ensure that her audience races to the store the second the drop is online in 'limited' numbers. She's very fortunate to have kept and tended to a bulk of absolutely obsessed fans that never fail to buy from her, even if it's the same design but in a new colour. She's aware of the ilk who typically follow her, and tends to play into exactly what she knows they want.

Each drop can make around $25k, depending on how exclusive she makes it. There's usually only a certain set amount of pieces each time, which caps her earnings when they do sell out in 48 hours. If she does just four drops a year, however, that's a guaranteed $100k every 12 months.

Before her own store opened, places like Hot Topic and such would sell unofficial merch, that consistently sold out. She leads trends and starts brand new ones just by taking her kid to school. Knowing this, she applies the same knowledge and perspective across all platforms. She’s on show walking up the street, she’s working when she’s taking a selfie, while she’s killing a man, while she’s texting you back. It’s all work.

BRAND X NIX.

More recently, as of last year, Nix actually was offered the opportunity to partner with a long-term small business sponsor of hers. Unearthly Cosmetics and Nix have been friends since almost the beginning of her real online career, post-Skizm, and they teamed up for the holiday drop of 'Dreamer'. The eye-shadow palette and further make-up collection sold out three times after it's initial release in early November.

It is limited edition and may never be restocked again, thus making it a finite source of income for her, but she so loved the entire process, and so did her fans and countless other make-up enthusiasts around the globe.

Due to Dreamer's success, Nix also worked with the brand on their Valentines mystery box, 'Charmer', which is on its way to selling out a second time since it's initial drop at the beginning of 2024. Both of Nix's collabs have been inspired by her marriage and life with Arthur, which should come as a surprise to no one. Such does make her the perfect partner for both drops, however, due to the romance surrounding their design and making, mostly hand-picked by Nix herself.

THE ICEBERG LOUNGE.

Arguably the biggest addition to her rosta of jobs, the original Lounge is still partially under the ocean, along with the rest of Downtown. Despite FEMA doing their supposed best to flush the sea out of that end of Gotham, the Lounge was near unsalvageable, leading Oswald to commandeer a new space and build The Iceberg Lounge 2.0. He had an unexpected partner in the process in Nix.

Due to Mrs. Wayne's admittedly strained ties to the elite through the Court of Owls, she was assigned Oswald to keep an eye on. Constance's son has never seen eye-to-eye with the Court's ways, and though he has yet to even make an attempt at exposing the nefarious secret society, and is ostensibly of no threat due to his apathy, Jacob Kane and Constance Cobblepot saw fit to have eyes on the man at all times.

Enter: Nix. A prominent business woman in her own right, with ownership of all the above mentioned, she was placed in Oswald's path as a would-be partner. The two do not get along, and yet have somehow built one of the most influential and record-breaking venues in modern history together. The new Lounge's profit margins are grossly bloated in comparison to the last dive Oswald was running. The drugs are still prevalent enough to engage those hooked from all walks of life, but largely the Lounge's design and enrapturing making actually pulls in a large sum of legal profit every single night.

The Lounge operates Friday-Saturday evenings and hosts events on Wednesday, Thursday or Sunday. All visitors must pay a $25 cover charge, on which the house makes a profit after factoring in entertainment and operating expenses. Margins on drinks sold alone verge on 90% every single open night there is, and so you can only imagine the bulk that amasses over time. Operating costs and equipment costs are their highest outgoing, with little in the way of marketing needing to be spent on account of the Court's dirty fingers being all over that for their own sake.

Together Oswald and Nix take home 50% after expenses are paid, splitting that to 25% each. All being well, this could add up to around $300,000 for each of them every year, solely working the math with their two open nights each week. Nix plans on putting this money specifically toward she and Arthur's children's' futures.

TLDR?

The Flecks are doing just fine, and are living comfortably with all of the aforementioned as well as Arthur's Grammy-award-winning music career. They do not have a single dime of Wayne coin. Everything they have they built on their own. It's something Nix is terrifyingly proud of and viscous in protecting. The only help she ever received was from Arthur, who gifted her the freedom to create and build in the way she's done. She does credit him for all of the above. The gift of life and all that comes of it? From her husband.

#☠ abt. ⋙ 𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠.#hi yes hello this was sweaty #at some point i gave up on the math i freely admit that #i was calculating profit margins on the average cost of cocktails at one point but honestly? fuck that i'm worth more than that being my ev #but her income meta hadn't been updated since she had 26mil on insta soooooo #here we go #had to throw in her latest efforts #she's a busy busy lady and it shows and so it should #she's very proud and very creative and very savvy and more opportunistic than most #those traits paired w the man she married fully supporting her in her ever endeavour and believing in her is what got her where she is #it's a lot and it's so much life and that's why she thrives so much #bc it's life she was lacking before arthur #actual real life #real opportunity real freedom

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