This 6-Year-Old Kid Made $11M On YouTube Over The Last Year

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Six-year-old Ryan of the YouTube channel Ryan ToysReview who, according to Forbes, made $11 million last year, has put him 8th on their list of the world’s top ten YouTube earners.

Yep, you read right – he’s just six years old!

For many of us (including me) being a “YouTuber” still sounds like a made-up job, right?

But it’s proving that it can sure pay the bills-in fact, being a popular YouTuber can make your family a fortune for generations to come.

Forbes first began making a list of the highest-paid “YouTube stars” back in 2015, when Swedish gamer PewDiePie held the top spot with $12 million in earnings (before taxes).

In 2017, that spot went to 26-year-old gamer Daniel Middleton (known as DanTDM on YouTube) who made $16.5 million last year.

And now, making the list for the first time is Ryan, a toy-reviewer who has over 10 million subscribers and will never have to work a day in his life!

This has to be the best retirement planning on earth,  right?

Ryan’s parents created his popular channel only two years ago, in March of 2015.

It had humble beginnings, as we  can see from this line from an article about Ryan in The Washington Post: “When his family started recording and posting the videos…the 3-year-old barely had any views let alone reviews…In his first video, he simply opened a Lego box, set up the blocks, and played with them.”

No page views and just playing with Legos?

The idea of making toy-review videos began from a then-3-year-old Ryan, who was a fan of other toy review channels on YouTube. In an interview with TubeFilter, Ryan’s Mom said: “One day, he asked me, ‘How come I’m not on YouTube when all the other kids are?’ So we just decided — yeah, we can do that.”

Ryan’s page had about 8 billion views last year and he makes approximately a million dollars a month for all of this!

According to Forbes, the YouTubers on their top ten list made a combined $127 million dollars in 2017 “before management fees and taxes.” In 2016, the top ten made $70.5 million, meaning total earnings in that group have gone up 80% in just the past year.

Crazy, right?