List of highest-paid YouTube stars shows we’re all in the wrong business
Dec06
If you’d told someone 20 years ago we’d one day have a man that makes $15 million a year playing video games and making dick jokes, you would have been laughed out of the room. In 2016, this isn’t just a reality, it just doesn’t seem like a stretch anymore. In Forbes second annual ranking of the highest-paid YouTube stars, the man leading the list, PewDiePie, does just that: plays video games, overreacts to said video games, and drops the occasional joke. He also raked in $15 million last year, as part of a crop of YouTubers that saw collective income…
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