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Re:More than a decade later, how original YouTube stars feel... by markdown on Monday July 03, 2017 @10:34PM (#14693098)
One more data point:

Primitive Tech makes $5k-$6k per month purely from Patreon, no ads, affiliate links, or endorsements. He produces one video per month.

Has almost 5m subscribers and each video gets at least 10M views.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA/fea...

Re:More than a decade later, how original YouTube stars feel... by rjeli on Monday July 03, 2017 @11:08PM (#14693240)
He's probably pretty abnormal, in that every single video is at the top of Reddit for a day