How A 16-Year-Old Boy Earned $100,000

Becoming an entrepreneur was his dream. From a young age, he has always seemed to gravitate towards doing something creative, whether that be filming something or making a game online. As he grew up watching content online, he really wanted to be a YouTuber.

He started his first channel in late 2017. It was an average run-of-the-mill. 11-year-old trying to do mind craft videos. He posted about 58 videos in half a year but a few years passed nothing happened.

On his 12th birthday, all of this changed. It was about mid-2018. At this point, his channel got monetized and he could make $60. He got proof that he could actually do it.

To make more money, he tried to hustle more on different platforms.

Fiverr, Upwork, PeoplePerHour

He went to edit videos for people. Spent almost 30min per day trying to find clients. It took him one month to get his first client. In five hours of work, he earned $10. He continued on this platform for a few months, earning $400. He uploaded the online earning story on his other YouTube channel.

He created another gig on these platforms as a photographer and within two weeks he had his first order, making a whopping 100 dollars from taking free photos. It was also throughout this time he saw the opportunity to specialize in amazon product photography, which not only meant he can sell bundles of photos but it also meant that per picture he was getting paid more than buyers. Next two months he made 370 dollars.

His total now is around $600

YouTube

At the start of November, he started another channel that was meant to be a joke. As a bored 14-year-old kid thought, Let's make a dumb video on Roblox promo code videos.

But this joke started getting tons of videos and finally got monetized. In February his channel kicked off with views of more than 200k. from YouTube ad revenue he made $1100 for three months. Till April end the total went up to $3100.

By doubling the uploads and taking sponsorships of $500 on a single video, his income skyrocketed. In 2019 October, he hit 100k subscribers. So till now, his total went up to $13500.

Yet he started another YouTube channel doing the same stuff and just over a month, his new channel got monetized with 10k subscribers. Within 3 months, the channel had 100k subscribers, yet no change in content in two channels. Both channels earned $20,000 in 3 months.

total $34,500

So the gaming channel made $150 per 100k views.

In January 2020, he got 3M, combining views with income of $10,000 per month. Till April 2020 he made a Total $86,000.

The Downfall

As his expectations were high from the channels, it all came crumbling down on one Sunday afternoon. So his original roblex channel with 750k subscribers got terminated overnight. He panicked and assumed that might have been a ban wave, so he deleted all the videos from other channels too.

YouTube is momentum based that after uploading a video after deleting everything, it got 10 times fewer views than it normally would with half a million subscribers.

Financially, it was a huge shift from making twenty thousand a month to just $100. The positive of this was he invested his time and efforts into his original channel. He transitioned his videos into more entrepreneur videos. His channel now has 50k subscribers and is still growing…

Total till the date is $100,000