Just found out a cancelled YouTuber made over $200k before getting dropped

I was digging into that whole mess with the guy who got cancelled for those old tweets last month. Turns out he was pulling in like $12k a month from ad revenue alone before all the sponsors bailed. Found it in a public income breakdown he posted back in 2022 before anyone cared. It just hit me different seeing the actual numbers instead of people yelling about it. Does that kind of money change how you look at these cases? I mean is it more about the cash or the actual behavior?

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jamie8041mo agoMost Upvoted

YouTubers have always made crazy money off ad rates that don't make sense to normal people. It's just numbers on a screen, doesn't change what someone actually did or didn't do.

claire_grant341mo ago

I used to be one of those people who would see a YouTuber's paycheck and get all worked up about it. But you're right, it's just numbers on a screen. Like, the money doesn't make what they did more or less true. If someone lies or scams people, the fact they made a million dollars doesn't make it okay. And if they actually did something helpful, the cash doesn't change that either. It's weird how fast you forget that when you see a big number.

cole_flores441mo ago

You ever see somebody get cut off from a big paycheck and start acting like a completely different person? Not the YouTuber, but like a friend of mine who lost a sponsorship deal and suddenly changed his whole personality overnight. He was this super chill dude who never cared about views, but once that money got yanked he started chasing drama and posting weird clickbait just to get the numbers back up. The cash definitely changes people even if it's just "numbers on a screen" like you said.