Youtube - the great life!

toolmanmike said

You have to have a million subs and a butt load of Patreon members and of course Merch. A couple of the whiskey You tubers I follow are around the $75,000 mark with Patreon. They also have 100,000+ subscribers. Rick Beato has 4.5 million subs. He's doing ok for himself. He's full time too and sells his music lessons online as well. He has a list of supporters but No Patreon that I can see. Others have a huge Patreon list but no published figures for their pay outs.

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The other side of it that folks don't see is how much off camera time it can consume interacting with viewers, like private emails and such, plus I try to respond to every single comment made on all videos. Couple that with family life, church life, and 50 hrs of work life a week, it can get time-crunchy! But I enjoy it as it is a part of the hobby, kind of like this FABO :) And I have honestly some of the absolute BEST viewers/subscribers on youtube. You'd be shocked what they have offered when they thought I was in time of need. For real.