[jayd16]

Here he defines his own success as the ability of his patreon to support him financially. He says he couldn't make that work.

It doesn't really go into detail about whether he offered other direct contracts or work fire hire or other tried other licensing or any other strategy.

[gentleman11]

If it’s a side project, then work for hire would have been a side-side project, wouldn’t it? That’s quite a lot to juggle with a presumably full time job