So as someone that has experience building PCs, asking for 18,000 dollars to upgrade Kiwi Farms where Jersh wanted to buy a new network switch and some nvme drives doesn't add up.
So if you look up Amazon or Newegg, they sell nvme drives with storage space of usually up to 4TB usually and they cost around 300 bucks each at the most (and they sell some 4TB nvme drives in the 200 dollar range). I have seen some that costs around 500 dollars each for more higher end machines but this is assuming Jersh need a few SSDs to expand storage. So he shouldn't spend no more than around 2000 dollars on SSDs so he cannot worry about storage for a while.
He said that this is enough money for a new 10Gpbs switch where the ones I've seen for sale (brand new) can cost as low as 100 dollars. I have seen one for sale that costs around 2000 dollars so assuming Jersh wants to buy the most high end 10Gpbs switch on the market then combining this along with the most high end nvme drives on the market should total to around 4000 dollars at the most. Him asking for 18,000 sounds really screwy to me. 4000 dollars is still a lot of money for computer parts but for someone running a niche community like Kiwi Farms, you don't need 18,000 dollars (or let alone 36,000) to keep this community afloat.
You can even build some really great machines using budget parts as many tech Youtubers demonstrated before. Chances are Jersh will spend the bare minimum on Kiwi Farms and use the rest of the money to satisfy his hedonistic habits.
The Kiwis got scammed.