YouTubers under 18 who are earning up to US$22 million per year: Ryan ToysReview, Boram Tube Vlog and more

It doesn’t matter whether you’re a millennial or Gen Z-er, there is something both generations can agree on: YouTube is awesome. Millennials may not understand TikTok, and Gen Z-ers may not get Facebook, but YouTube appears to be that wonderful middle ground where video content is available for all to binge on.

If you are a millennial, you may be familiar with YouTube stars like PewDiePie – or Felix Kjellberg – who earned US$15.5 million in 2018, according to Forbes’ analytics; or Jeffree Star, who’s been around since the MySpace days and runs his own beauty channel and cosmetics line, Jeffree Star Cosmetics.

If you’re a Gen Z-er, perhaps you’re more familiar with brothers Logan Paul and Jake Paul, who earned US$14.5 million and US$21.5 million respectively in 2018.

But the highest earning YouTube star is someone who might be off the radars of both groups. Why? Because he’s an eight-year-old boy that unboxes toys.

With over 22 million followers, Ryan Kaji, who is the star of the Ryan ToysReview channel on YouTube, earned an estimated US$22 million in just a single year (the 12 months to June 1, 2018, according to Forbes).

Although YouTube is intended for users over the age of 13, these mini YouTubers are racking up fans and followers, sometimes reaping financial rewards more shrewdly than their older counterparts.

The Sun reported on a survey, conducted on over a thousand children by travel company First Choice in 2017, which showed that more than a third of six-to-17-year-olds wanted to be a professional YouTuber. Another substantial portion wanted to be vloggers or bloggers.

Here are five child millionaires on YouTube today that are evidently living almost every child’s dream.

Ryan Kaji, aged eight (Ryan ToysReview)