It's not that they don't deserve it, it's that it's ironic.
Irony isn't a bad thing, it just is or isn't, and in this case it is. I was just trying to clarify that since someone said it wasn't.
You say that you're not the person I disagree with, but by saying "it's ironic" you gave the impression that we shouldn't expect leftists to make money from their work on Patreon. The point of the comic I linked was that there is nothing surprising about people earning money in the system they find themselves in while trying to change that system.
What I find ironic about it is that these podcasters in particular are crass, irreverent, and hypercritical of capitalism. But, they're using the status quo to make life changing amounts of money by talking about how bad the current system is. Good for them, though.
It is indeed too easy to see hypocrisy when strong opinions are expresses—particularly so if you don’t share the ideology. So easy in fact, and is done so often that it has become the meme that dane-pgp pointed out.
I accept that people might find it ironic if someone who complains about wealth inequality is also extremely wealthy, but on the other hand, someone who has managed to become extremely wealthy is arguably the best qualified to judge the unfairness or dangers of such a system.
Perhaps a better example of irony in this situation, though, is the fact that capitalism seems to be rewarding people for criticising (and potentially seeking to end) it, which is an odd property for a system to have.
Patreon is a world were value produced is both determined and rewarded by a free market of consumers choosing where to spend their money.
I do find it ironic that a socialists are at the top of the Patreon food chain and yet the comment:
> it's not ironic if you really understand socialism.
says I shouldn't. I'm looking for someone to explain to me why.
Yes, yes, I know that it's not hypocrisy for anticapitalists to use money. I also know that not all socialists are anticapitalist. Still ironic.