One previous survey of 3,000 children who were between the ages of 8 to 12 years old, from the United States, found that most of them want to become a famous YouTube star as their potential career.
But making it on YouTube is difficult to say the least.
Some of the more popular YouTube accounts now admit that they've been earning more from selling merchandise through their channels, or from memberships, than from simply video views alone.
from a video with 100k views it's between $500 to $1000
a video with 1 million views+ has an average payout of $2,000 but can range up to $10,000.
YouTube has continued to add hundreds of hours of new content every minute, but it's the largest channels that are still reportedly growing the most and receiving the most views.
Looking at the finished product alone can easily cause some to think it's easy to do or get there, but most haven't seen or know about what those creators did before that. They don't see the work and struggle that went into creating the content or doing the work up until that point, they might have made years of sacrifice. If it's something that someone is truly passionate about, there's nothing stopping them, but on the surface it might be too easy to overestimate the chance that someone might see fame and wealth thanks to YouTube views only.
