High into the six the figures
And yet the savings are almost instantly gone despite sharing a house with her brother and parents.....in Detroit.
Hmmmm
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I said the same thing! She's living in a basement that looks straight out of hoarders and is making 6 figures for years (that's how I read it) and then manages to spend it all? The documentary was shot in 2-3 years I believe. How do you go through that kind of money in such a short period of time...unless some kind of catastrophe or health situations depleted it?
I just didn't buy it...nor did I agree with her suing someone over stolen virtual property, while she even said she copied a gown that she saw in a window (in the game) when she first started playing it!
She did talk about her parents' health problems along with her own.
Health bills can easily skyrocket up into the 6 figure amount.
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"It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have."
That was the only thing that lead me to believe it could be true. Medical bills will bleed anybody dry.
I still feel like that's a crazy amount to make on items that cost so little.
Who knows. I've never ventured into the realm of second life, so I know nothing of the concept of profiting from it.
And is it any wonder that she has been sick? She smokes her way though 20-hour stretches on the computer every day. Lady just be glad you're still alive.
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I sort of wondered, when the filmmaker made a point of underscoring that the $525 won in that lawsuit was equal to something like $12,000 Linden Dollars, if maybe the woman was overstating by using her "virtual income" figure, as opposed to real money. Or that she was SO entrenched in that world that she actually considers faux currency to be real & had her family convinced of it too. Yeah, that bit really jumped out at me! Although the medical expenses angle is a possibility, I suppose...but I just got the impression that the director deliberately pointed out the discrepancy between the two amounts for a reason.
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She also mentioned having to put money into the game to get money out of it. Who knows where her investment began and where her revenue ended. It takes her something like months to build a house. The most expensive property they showed was less than $20.00 USD.
I just didn't buy it...nor did I agree with her suing someone over stolen virtual property, while she even said she copied a gown that she saw in a window (in the game) when she first started playing it!
She said she copied it because she went and recreated it for herself, which would've taken a good deal of time to do. The dude she sued was exploiting a glitch in the game that allowed him to run off with instant duplicates of her virtual merchandise, even selling them for a profit.
The Second Life CEO said playing the game involved a certain amount of risk... I think she or anyone should have known better than to ensconce a business within the confines of what amounts to poorly understood game software.
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