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Every day, people tune in by the hundreds of thousands to watch him play, and he's making bank doing it. The most commonly reported figure is $500,000 a month.
by baxtr 8y ago
Every day, people tune in by the hundreds of thousands to watch him play, and he's making bank doing it. The most commonly reported figure is $500,000 a month. Blevins suggests the number is closer to seven figures.
And then later:
"Until my family is taken care of. Say this ends tomorrow, we don't have enough for the rest of our lives. I tell Jess, 'Honey, we're not going to have that much quality time this year, or even next year. But if we do this right and I continue to grind for a couple more years, we can set ourselves up, and our family and our family's family, for the rest of our lives.'"
Even though he makes so much money I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes. He doesn’t seem to have a good, relaxed life. One vacation in 8 years while making 500k+ a month? Why...?
- woolvalley 8y agoIt's pretty god damn smart, work hard for 10 years and have generational wealth for the rest of your god damn life. He knows that this was a lucky break of fame, and as celebrities rise and fall with fads. It's way better than most startups.
- ndh2 8y agoThere's got to be some boundary, though. The guy streams every single day. Doesn't even take one weekday off. That's not healthy.
- Doxin 8y agoWorking until you're 80 isn't healthy either. given the choice I'd rather do 10 years with no free time than 60 years with only a tiny bit of free time.
- tuesdayrain 8y agoHe plays videogames for a living. I could do that all day every day for free if I had the opportunity, nevermind 500k a month.
- mylons 8y agothere's no guarantee he lasts beyond a month. streaming is very "fad" driven. follow the memes. you're also ruling things like health issues, etc.
- ben_jones 8y agoAgreed. Engaging in a very demanding, sensory over-loaded, massively toxic, environment for ten hours a day is enough to make anyone mad. As to WHY he has to stream so much I believe its two-fold, if he takes his foot off the gas he's afraid he'll lose his audience as has happened to many other streamers. Two, you form the habits to play 10 hours of video games a day it becomes a sort of addiction where the happiness your derive in life partly belongs to those 10 hours.