The money that is shown is what she has bought from bid-bots. That's what she means when she wrote "Recently I discovered the voting bots and guess what? Now I'm losing money paying them to make sure you guys get to read what I write, because hey, I believe in myself!"

You pay with your own money for bots to upvote you, like that you get on the trending page and you get seen. But, you pay for it.