Highest Paid You Tuber Award Goes To ... This Guy?
By: Evan Jankens
@kingofthekc
I pride myself at being pretty darn good at the Madden video game series, but no one pays me for it.
And that means this guy is smarter than me.
A list of the top 10 highest paid YouTube stars came out and the winner was PewDiePie or otherwise known as Felix Arvid. He is a pro gamer from Sweden and made $15 million this past year thanks to his 49 million subscribers. Arvid is the first person to reach 10 billion YouTube views and was also named as one of Time Magazine's most influential people.
Felix has recently landed in hot water after joking he was joining ISIS and claiming YouTube was sabotaging his channel because he is white.
The gamer recently threatened to delete his YouTube account after reaching 50 million subscribers because he felt the site was trying to hamper his success.
Below is the complete list of the top 10.
1. PewDiePie - $15 million
2. Roman Atwood - $8 million
3. Lilly Singh - $7.5 million
4. SMOSH - $7 million
5. Tyler Oakley - $6 million
6. Rosanna Pansino - $6 million
7. Markiplier - $5.5 million
8. German Garmendia - $5.5 million
9. Colleen Ballinger - $5million
10. Rhett and Link - $5 million