Beast (Jimmy Donaldson), a famous American YouTuber who made the real version of the Netflix original drama ‘Squid Game’, took the top spot in YouTube revenue last year.
On the 14th, the BBC reported that Donaldson was ranked first among the ’10 highest-paid YouTubers in the world’ compiled by Forbes, an American business magazine.
Donaldson’s YouTube earnings last year amounted to $44 million (about 64.1 billion won), which is higher than the average salary of a Wall Street CEO.
Donaldson’s YouTube videos uploaded last year were viewed more than 10 billion times.
In particular, the video of the survival game, which reproduces the ‘Squid Game’ as it is in November of last year, was very popular.
The video was so popular that 10 million people watched it within 4 hours of being released, and it surpassed 200 million views within a month.
Donaldson’s channel had 50 million subscribers at the beginning of 2021, but has grown to 88 million as of January 2022 thanks to a video of the squid game.
His channel ranked 8th most subscribed channels on YouTube worldwide and 3rd in the United States.
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