The wording is unfortunate, but the ask is not free money for past work, it's to support upcoming work which she does wants to release for free and not be dependent on ad-driven monetization schemes. Frankly, I think this is something to be applauded. I'd very much prefer to see more indie and small studio creators versus big gaming and tech with their free-to-play shenanigans and bottom-line mentality sanding down all the interesting edges.

Judging people because they had a windfall that enabled them to do something good is crab mentality.