Highest paid Youtube members

steve-h · 23 Jan 2011 at 16:53

or not

G-MAN2004 · 23 Jan 2011 at 16:57

One guy gave up med school? He must be one hell of an idiot if he thinks he'll sustain the amount of viewers he has now for years.

Greenlizard0 · 23 Jan 2011 at 16:58

Or perhaps he's doing the smart thing and saving up tuition fees, it doesn't really say.

I'm shocked...a talking orange gets how much?!

Got to admire people that make money this way. Web based comics can rarely make their owners a sustainable income, e.g. XKCD.

steve-h · 23 Jan 2011 at 17:04

G-MAN2004 said:
One guy gave up med school? He must be one hell of an idiot if he thinks he'll sustain the amount of viewers he has now for years.

sxephil I believe. He's not doing too bad for himself at all... viewers growing in huge amounts daily.

m4rkw7 · 23 Jan 2011 at 17:36

The only one I've heard of is Fred and I don't think I'm alone when I say I wish he'd die..

kwerk · 23 Jan 2011 at 17:51

I just saw another thing about google adsense and this guy makes $30,000 a month off it. You'd think he could hire a proper web designer.

http://www.askthebuilder.com/

Alex_6n2 · 23 Jan 2011 at 18:03

Philip Defranco and RWJ are probably the best out of the lot. =3 has been getting a bit boring as of late though

G-MAN2004 · 23 Jan 2011 at 18:16

Ray William Johnson is so annoying. Can't stand his annoying face, annoying hair and annoying, horrible voice. Why do Americans have to sound so fake?

Blackhawk47 · 23 Jan 2011 at 19:14

It's always posted in the youtube thread but why not...

A2Z · 23 Jan 2011 at 19:20

Never heard of any of them.

Clicked on a few of the vids and they werent even funny.

Drake5 · 23 Jan 2011 at 19:23

YouTube 'celebrities' just try to hard. To me they came across as fame hungry idiots.

IceBus · 23 Jan 2011 at 19:28

So how are these folks actually making money?

Gerard · 23 Jan 2011 at 19:28

That "fred" crap really does my nut, how in the hell someone tweaking their voice pitch and acting like a grade a retard = "the funny" boggles the mind.

Scort · 23 Jan 2011 at 20:20

Quite amusing seeing how some ‘media moguls’ **** these youtube stars up – Numa guy and Chocolate rain come to mind; both of which seem to have plenty of cringe worthy spin-offs that are cash cow acts really.

Bit like the ‘Simples’ ads on TV…

Spyhop · 23 Jan 2011 at 21:20

Some **** being "random" with a jump cut every 2 seconds.

That's my understanding of YouTube stars

ElvisFan · 23 Jan 2011 at 21:42

Pat Condell has the best youtube channel.

Freefaller · 23 Jan 2011 at 21:50

That wannabe Japanese girl although hugely irritating has a cracking rack. :cool:

PermaChanged · 23 Jan 2011 at 21:58

I love RWJ, he saves me having to traul through the internet for funny/random videos which have been trending for the past few days, I also find him mildly humourous.

Blackhawk47 · 23 Jan 2011 at 22:12

IceBus said:
So how are these folks actually making money?

Adsense pretty much all the time.

Or doing reviews of products for businesses ie, 3DGAMEMAN.

buchtis · 23 Jan 2011 at 22:25

Anyone remember the good old days of YouTube before it was owned by Google? You know, where you had original content on the home page instead of some attention seeking, money craving randomers? Oh those were the good old days...

Highest paid Youtube members

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