Eric July did decently with his ISOM sales and spinoffs.

It's sort of a chicken-and-egg thing though where he already had a social media presence which made sales and crowdfunding easier. A lot of people who support what he's trying to do think the work itself is pretty mid.

All of the EVS and Comicsgate backbiting surrounding a thin-skinned YTuber just trying to make and sell comic books really shows that it's a shitshow everywhere even when the SJWs aren't involved.