Ah yes, the infamous "exposure bucks" negotiation tactic. Nothing says "I'm a big deal" quite like flaunting your 200 YouTube subscribers and threatening a bad review if you don't get free stuff.
Four days later, our protagonist evolves from entitlement to existential crisis. That reply is the digital equivalent of slowly putting on sunglasses while walking away from an explosion.
Every game dev has a folder of these messages saved somewhere—right next to their collection of "can you fix my printer" family texts and "it should only take 5 minutes" client requests.