What the passive-income gurus leave out.
A YouTube video says TapStitch makes a real clothing brand possible with no money. The garment margins are real — the customer-acquisition math is not.
A Printify ad promises six figures a month in passive income from print-on-demand. Printify's own data says the median Etsy seller makes ~$574. Here's the gap.
LaCresha Sims shows $13,964/month from home. The dashboards are real — but her Etsy shop made $1,203 while her course made $80,801. Here's what that means.
Alek's video pitches Claude Design plus Printify on Etsy and TikTok Shop as a route to $11k a month. Here's the math, fees, and saturation it skips.