Now, Lucre has seemingly earned revenue from the platform through its ad revenue sharing program, which is a program Musk announced in February that pays eligible creators a share “for ads that appear in their reply threads.” The first payments to creators started on July 13, with Musk confirming that “revenue payout to content creators will be cumulative from when I first promised to do so in February.” Multiple right-wing misinformers and bad actors announced that they had received a combined total of at least tens of thousands of dollars in ad revenue from that first payment.

A second round of ad revenue sharing payouts were seemingly sent to creators on August 7, including to some creators who also received revenue from the first payout.

Lucre announced that he also received a payout via the ad revenue sharing program, posting an image that showed that he had earned about $2,400 from the platform.

Besides Lucre, another figure associated with QAnon, influencer John Sabal, known online as “QAnon John,” announced that he received his “first payout” from the ad revenue program on August 7 — earning over $1,200. Sabal lauded Musk for making it “possible to make a LIVING fighting the GOOD fight.”

Lucre and Sabal’s announcements come as major companies continue to pay for advertising on the platform, thus helping to subsidize these extreme figures and harmful content, despite advertisers overall fleeing the platform due to its increasingly toxic environment under Musk.