16 Years Old JUST Bought A GTR

That's dope and is inspiring, what happened and what kinds of video? What do you think about the product review niche.

I was 17 years old at that time and I uploaded donald duck cartoon show which is very popular. Since it is a copyright content, I got 3 copyright strikes from Disney which banned my channel in Feb, 2015 and disabled monetization. But made 71,000 $ which is a huge success for me as a 17 year old student. I was very happy and able to pay my own school and tuition fees. In 2014, it was great for making money off youtube using copyright content but now (2016), it is very strict. Your video can get claimed within a week if its copyright content.

So few months back, I made a new gaming channel (own content) and making now 400 $ per month which is still good and growing. Hope this helped and good luck!
 
I was 17 years old at that time and I uploaded donald duck cartoon show which is very popular. Since it is a copyright content, I got 3 copyright strikes from Disney which banned my channel in Feb, 2015 and disabled monetization. But made 71,000 $ which is a huge success for me as a 17 year old student. I was very happy and able to pay my own school and tuition fees. In 2014, it was great for making money off youtube using copyright content but now (2016), it is very strict. Your video can get claimed within a week if its copyright content.

So few months back, I made a new gaming channel (own content) and making now 400 $ per month which is still good and growing. Hope this helped and good luck!

you mind sharing your gaming channel just for inspiration ?
 
Sorry to dissapoint, but the average youtuber's lifespan is of 5 years.
I even have a friend that got kinda big (half a million subs) His videos used to reach 1 million views at his peak, how he's lucky if he gets 20,000 views. And it just keeps decreasing and decreasing, and the same happens to 90% of channels.
Lol where ssid you find those numbers? There are plenty of you tubers that have been doing it for more than 5 years. I don't even think it's about keeping it new and fresh, I think it all about uploading consistently. You know who Casey neistat is? He is a YouTuber and I think he started in 2008-2009. He is said 3-4 years he was doing it he only reach about a millions subs, he started doing daily vlogs aka uploading daily and consistently not saying it has to be vlogs really just anything. And anyways in the last 2 years he started blogging he has a total of 3 million subs, so he trippled up his subs in 2 years time, compared to 4 years and 1 million subs. It makes sense to the more you put out, the more people have a better chance of seeing your videos, watching and subbing.

If you start a prank channel and upload 2 times a week your not going to be successful even if a video goes viral. Viral videos don't gain many subs, they gain their subs from consistently uploading
 
I was 17 years old at that time and I uploaded donald duck cartoon show which is very popular. Since it is a copyright content, I got 3 copyright strikes from Disney which banned my channel in Feb, 2015 and disabled monetization. But made 71,000 $ which is a huge success for me as a 17 year old student. I was very happy and able to pay my own school and tuition fees. In 2014, it was great for making money off youtube using copyright content but now (2016), it is very strict. Your video can get claimed within a week if its copyright content.

So few months back, I made a new gaming channel (own content) and making now 400 $ per month which is still good and growing. Hope this helped and good luck!
Do you do commentary with your gaming? How many subs did you have on your Disney and gaming channels?
 
It was a private sale and if it's in future videos chances are it's legit. I understand what your saying but he has like 1.5 million subs and gets 500-800k views Ina 24 hour period on his vlogs. More than likely it's legit. I understand what your saying but regardless the kid is making crazy money. I'd be nervous tho living off YouTube what happens if tomorrow YouTube gets bought out and they change their policies or if your forget your password to your account or your channel gets deleted
You have money saved up. Look at keem star
 
Do you do commentary with your gaming? How many subs did you have on your Disney and gaming channels?

This was my donald duck cartoon channel and gained 28k subs. Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/user/KinderStarTVofficial/videos

It is now at 26k subs because I didn't upload anything since 2015 and subs are unsubbing now. No point in uploading in this channel because my monetization got disabled and asked YT to enable so I could do something else, but they didn't enable it.

And no, I don't do commentary on my gaming videos (planning to do in future). My gaming channel is now at 4k subs.
 
This was my donald duck cartoon channel and gained 28k subs. Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/user/KinderStarTVofficial/videos

It is now at 26k subs because I didn't upload anything since 2015 and subs are unsubbing now. No point in uploading in this channel because my monetization got disabled and asked YT to enable so I could do something else, but they didn't enable it.

And no, I don't do commentary on my gaming videos (planning to do in future). My gaming channel is now at 4k subs.
Why don't you upload videos on your Disney channel and tell them to subscribe to your gaming channel? You make $400 a month from 4K subs? That's seem very high.
 
Youtube is quite hard to earn a living unless you have over millions subs. Most youtubers get income from selling books etc.
 
Youtube is quite hard to earn a living unless you have over millions subs. Most youtubers get income from selling books etc.
Youtube is quite hard to earn a living unless you have over millions subs. Most youtubers get income from selling books etc.
I beg to differ as you seen the black cat said he earns $400 a month off his gaming channel with 4K subs and yeah you can't live off that, that's just with 4K subs. Imagine if he had 100k subs?
 
I beg to differ as you seen the black cat said he earns $400 a month off his gaming channel with 4K subs and yeah you can't live off that, that's just with 4K subs. Imagine if he had 100k subs?

Some of his videos must go viral or something, $400 is quite a lot of money for 4k account.

My friend had a 50k account he get less than $1k each month.

It depends on your content I guess
 
Some of his videos must go viral or something, $400 is quite a lot of money for 4k account.

My friend had a 50k account he get less than $1k each month.

It depends on your content I guess
Most likely I agree with you. Not saying it's easy or I'd be doing it even tho I am thinking about jumping on the band wagon. Just upload stupid videos I guess that really have no meaning and seee where it goes. If I upload 1 video a day for a month I wonder how many subs I could get. I'd be happy with anything close to 500 subs and then I hear once you get close to 10k subs your account will start to snowball.

People assume you need a viral video to make a shit ton of money and IMO that's not the case. Say over a 2-3 month period you upload 70-75 videos so almost a video per day and each video get: 500 views a day on average . Which is A lot for a small channel and I wouldn't expect a new channel to do that ASAP obviously I'm just making a point. That's a lot of views in a 30 day period, if I did my math right that would be about roughly 1.2 million views. Now I'm sure 1.2 million views would equate to atleast $1k if not closer to $2-3k that's a lot of money form a channel only getting 500 views assume per video.

I feel like 500 views a day per video is achievable. Obviously the older the video is the less views it will get but I'm just giving a realistic average number of views.


Anyways that's my little outlook.
 
I don't think anyone is going to read this, but let me give you guys a word of advice. I've been in IM for well over 10 years and have seen my fair share of people make millions a year and then have their income disappear overnight.

That's the nature of the internet. Things change fast. One day you're on top of the world and the next day your business model is obsolete.

A 16-year-old buying a GTR is NOT set for life. That is chump change over the scope of a lifetime. If he is smart, he is squirreling his money away into some really good investments in preparation for the day when his business dies. Oh! and to ruin everyone's dream: Yes it will die. Most online business' have an expiration date. Hopefully, he will be smart enough to re-invest into new ideas and grow new business'.

I'm glad that kid made it big. I truly am. But please stop thinking that making a few hundred k a year off of youtube is being set for life.
 
I don't think anyone is going to read this, but let me give you guys a word of advice. I've been in IM for well over 10 years and have seen my fair share of people make millions a year and then have their income disappear overnight.

That's the nature of the internet. Things change fast. One day you're on top of the world and the next day your business model is obsolete.

A 16-year-old buying a GTR is NOT set for life. That is chump change over the scope of a lifetime. If he is smart, he is squirreling his money away into some really good investments in preparation for the day when his business dies. Oh! and to ruin everyone's dream: Yes it will die. Most online business' have an expiration date. Hopefully, he will be smart enough to re-invest into new ideas and grow new business'.

I'm glad that kid made it big. I truly am. But please stop thinking that making a few hundred k a year off of youtube is being set for life.
That is set for life, if YouTube is around for the next 50 years, which it very well could be Google owns them, wouldn't make sense for it to not to be and you can't just assume t won't be around because Myspace died or your Addense or micro niche site died those are 2 different animals. He very well is set for life and even if YouTube dies he is famous and can get acting gigs and he also has a Instagram and Facebook account. And gets brand deals or can get brand deals so he is set for life. Now if I were to win my fan duel lineup and won $300k then obviously that's not set for life. I acknowledge 300k isn't set for life. He is set for life because of his business model.
 
Why don't you upload videos on your Disney channel and tell them to subscribe to your gaming channel? You make $400 a month from 4K subs? That's seem very high.

Not from 4k subs. 3 of my videos has gone viral (500k views each) and I am getting subscribers from those videos. I make more than 10 mins videos so I could put extra ads between them. The gaming content which I make is very trendy and my competitors get like 200k views PER DAY (per video). onelettershor is right. Its not about subs, its about content. By making good content, you get subs.

Here is a screenshot of my earnings this month (Aug 1-21). Still 10 days left, so I think I can get to 600$.

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Not from 4k subs. 3 of my videos has gone viral (500k views each) and I am getting subscribers from those videos. I make more than 10 mins videos so I could put extra ads between them. The gaming content which I make is very trendy and my competitors get like 200k views PER DAY (per video). onelettershor is right. Its not about subs, its about content. By making good content, you get subs.

Here is a screenshot of my earnings this month (Aug 1-21). Still 10 days left, so I think I can get to 600$.

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from how many views is that? and where is your audience mostly from ?
 
Whats up guys, i havent read all cause to long :P
I just want to mention that someone said something along the lines of " The channel is only getting bigger " and thats something thats not true at all.
Youtube is a nice plattform sure, there are blackhat and whitehat ways to make money but it does not matter how many subs/views peer day you get.
Your channel will DIE.

As new generations comes into youtube and watching videos, there will be always a shift, i remember when i was 16 years old watching all those youtubers that had 300-600k subs ( wich was the highest at that time )
and when i watch them now 90% of those people are gone, meaning they still have 2mill+ subs but they barely make 10k views peer vid.

Whatthebuck would be a perfect example of that.
Athenewins too, he never reached 1 million subs despite beeing on youtube since the very beginning.

Wich is still better then most of us do but not enough to make a comfy living off youtube.

Thats just because generations are shifting there view habbits, youtube chaning the algo etc.
Just remember even if you where to have a scuessfull youtube channel with millions upon millions of views, milk it down to the last freaking cent.

Someone here on this forum once said, save 50% invest 30% and live with 20%.
And thats the way to go.

And please remember, Adsense/MNC is not what gives a youtuber the money, infact i would say what a sucessfull youtuber makes with adsense is nothing compared to what they make in
Merchandise/Sponsored Videos.

I have a couple of friends that only have 20k subs and yet there banking 2k+ a month with that, 25% of that beeing adsense and the rest sponosered videos.
So dont really focus that much on adsense money alone, sure for the start it may be cool to get a bit money doing videos, but adsense money is just candy.
 
It's 80% luck and 20% effort. In some business you will succeed, others will fail. I experienced this so many times. When I had a great idea, it totally didn't work out. Now I have after trying, failing and succeeding a good running company with long term strategy. A Youtuber won't last for like 10 years with this business. I mean: 10 years ago we all played Runescape and watched those vids on youtube. Now are those views huge dropped. Don't watch those vids too much otherwise you will get huge demotivated. Ofcourse the Kid is doing a great job, but I have no reason to be jealous...

80% luck? What the fuck
 
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