A YouTuber shared his earnings after 10 years – and people are shocked.
After spotting a gap in the market, Rag ‘n’ Bone Brown, real name Keith, began making videos in 2015 mainly building sheds and other projects from salvaged materials.
What started as a hobby soon turned into a business, with his main source of income coming from YouTube’s ad revenue.
He broke down his earnings to calculate how much he exactly earned per video.
In his first year, Keith posted 22 videos and made a modest $765 (£626) – which breaks down to about £28 per video. This also considers the six months that it took for the video-sharing platform to monetise his videos, so he didn’t start earning until the second half of the year.
By Year 2, he was still working a full-time job but managed to post 60 videos, earning $2,656 (£2,172).
Into his third year, Keith sad he potential to expand his business and started taking on ‘woodworking commissions,’ that involved ‘making custom items and selling restored furniture.’
This added more income to his channel, as he also began selling items on Esty (a platform he later discovered to not be so cost-efficient) and launching a Patreon page for exclusive content.
At the end of Year 3, he again posted 60 videos and earned a total of $6,930 (£5,666).
Furthermore, in Year 7 (2021), coming out of the pandemic, he posted 52 videos and earned $33,683 (£27,521).
Fast forward to his 10th year (2024), the woodworker posted 40 videos and earned a whopping total of $61,307 (£50,100).
After 10 years of his YouTube business, his total earnings from YouTube have reached $228,633 (£186,595), with a lifetime total of 52.8 million views and 4.6 million watch hours.
This sounds like a pretty hefty sum, but after doing the maths, Keith found the reality to be a little less impressive.
NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty
On average, he makes $435 (£355) per video. And each video takes around 30 hours of work (including planning, filming, editing, and post-production).
When broken down, his hourly wage comes to just £11.83 per hour.
For context, the UK minimum wage in 2024 was £11.44 and is expected to rise to £12.21 in May 2025. After sharing his income breakdown, many fans were surprised at how little he actually makes for his hard work.
Keith acknowledged that there are other earnings and expenses that keep his business running, but at the end of the day, his true earnings are much lower than people expect.
“284,000 subscribers, millions of views, hundreds of hours of effort…. I thought it’d pay you more,” said one user.
“Like the other commenters here, I really wish you’ve made more money doing this because you’re obviously a prolific grafter and your content looks really good,” another commented.
“Enough credit can’t be given for the ten year grind you have shared,” someone else agreed.
Featured Image Credit: SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty
MrBeast’s alleged YouTube earnings leak online leaving fans in total disbelief at the amount
If true, the YouTuber is making an enormous sum from his videos
The alleged YouTube earnings of MrBeast have been leaked online and it has left fans in total disbelief at the amount.
MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is known for his over-the-top challenges that come with huge cash prizes.
His videos have earned him the title of most subscribed-to YouTuber, with a whopping 363 million followers.
It has left a lot of people wondering just how lucrative his videos are and now it looks like we may have an answer.
In the last month alone, Donaldson has had over 2.44 billion views on the videos he has uploaded in that timeframe and a leaked screenshot claims to reveal how much he is earning on a monthly basis.
In a post by @DramaAlert on X, formerly Twitter, an alleged screenshot was shared of the MrBeast channel monthly revenue analytics.
The user wrote: “MrBeast LEAKED earnings are being shared online.
“$4M+ Revenue. This leak has yet to be confirmed, so take it with a grain of salt.”
People were shocked by the huge amount, with many taking to social media themselves to share their reactions.
One user wrote: “Add the sponsors and we are looking at 7 mil a month, All deserved tho without any doubt.”
Another said: “He’s rich either way you look at it.”
MrBeast’s alleged earnings have leaked (Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Prime Video)
And a third person added: “This is monthly. 90% of a larger creator’s income is ads.
“4 million is only scratching the surface.
“Bro, also deserves more than that with all the good he’s done in the world. This should surprise no one.”
The screenshot appears to show that Donaldson had 2.688 billion views in the last 28 days and a total number of 162 million watch hours.
It also shared an estimated income of $4.2 million for that one month which, if true, would mean Donaldson’s annual earnings reach nearly $50 million a year.
However, things might not be all as they seem as the ViewStats co-founder and member of MrBeast’s ‘Ideas & Thumbnails Team’ has said that it is a fake screenshot.
On X, he wrote: “Fake screenshot, so many things wrong it’s just inspect element.”
He went on to add: “It’s close enough, just real time numbers and view abbreviations need to be fixed lol.”
Although, with Donaldson’s multiple avenues of income, including Amazon’s Beast Games, Feastables chocolate and Lunchly, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the YouTuber’s income far surpassed that sum in reality.
Featured Image Credit: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Prime Video
People in disbelief after finding out what YouTube was originally created for
It’s a far cry from what the video platform is used for today
YouTube is one of the biggest and most visited websites in the world right now, but people are in disbelief after realizing what it originally began as back in 2005.
Created all the way back in February 2024 by former PayPal employees Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, the video-sharing platform has undergone a dramatic evolution and fundamentally revolutionized how people watch and create videos on the internet.
YouTube remains to this day the second most visited website in the world, sitting behind only Google, its parent company, with 71,973,289,021 views in September 2024 according to Semrush.
While the platform has fundamentally changed since “Me at the zoo” was uploaded by founder Jawed Karim in April 2005 – with YouTubers now facing lengthy prison sentences, influencing election results, and even being accused of having a ‘creepy’ smile – it’s initial origins might still shock you.
In a post on the r/youtube subreddit, one user has used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to reveal and perhaps remind others on social media that YouTube used to be a dating site.
The site, which coincidentally began on Valentine’s Day in 2005, can be shown as having a completely different interface to the one that we know now.
Importantly, we can see a section just below the username and password entry that details the dating element, asking visitors to the site to fill in their gender, who they’re ‘seeking’, and the age range of their desired connections.
We can also see tabs for ‘Favorites’, ‘Messages’, ‘Videos’, and ‘My Profile’ at the top which are far more reminiscent of a dating platform than the video sharing site we know today.
The earliest entry on the Wayback Machine shows this on April 28, 2005, but on April 29, just the next day, we can see that the gender, preference, and age range selection has now disappeared.
It isn’t until June 14, 2005, that we see the more traditional YouTube homepage, featuring none of the dating site-like aspects that were present in the site’s earliest form.
What YouTube eventually settled on in June 2005 (YouTube/Internet Archive)
Unsurprisingly, the social media reaction to this has been that of disbelief, with many unaware and in shock that this was YouTube’s original purpose.
One commenter refuses to believe that dating would be a part of the site, stating that “knowing the web back then, that part of the page is probably a banner ad for some dating site, not for YouTube itself,” but they are indeed incorrect.
Another remarks that this reminded then of “back when Hey Apple was the funniest video on YouTube” – although we’d still have to wait half a decade before the Annoying Orange would make their video debut.
“YouTube back then was an entirely different place,” says one commenter, and it makes you wonder how many websites we use now will rapidly change in 10 to 20 years time.
Featured Image Credit: NurPhoto/Contributor / ullstein bild/Contributor / Getty Images
YouTube subtly change their logo for the first time in 7 years and people aren’t happy
Pink to make the angry fans wink
YouTube have made a small but mighty change to their logo after seven years.
Change can be scary sometimes, and when it comes things we use every day, it can be terrifying. Apple might only deliver subtle changes to its iPhones, but every year, it seems there’s some newfangled feature we have to get used to.
You’ll finally get used to Netflix‘s new interface, and then suddenly, it becomes a confusing mess where all your favorite shows have been shifted around.
YouTube has been our constant, taking us through the years with a manageable user interface and plenty of easy features. It was like coming home to a huge from an old friend.
Emphasis on the was part of that.
For the first time in seven years, YouTube has changed its logo. Safe to say, you aren’t happy.
YouTube logos in 2015 and 2017 (YouTube)
If you boot up YouTube, it might look like business as usual with your favorite mukbang videos and Lady Gaga’s new single there to be enjoyed. However, eagle-eyed ‘Tubers’ have noticed that YouTube has changed its logo.
You might remember when we wrote about the subtle change to the playback bar adding a pinkish hue to your clips. YouTube was clearly a fan of that color, because now, the logo has been given a bit of pink blush.
Things have kicked off on Reddit, with fans not sure why the video giant would make such a minute change instead of going for a whole redesign.
After seven years of the bright-red logo, YouTube could probably do with a bit of a refresh, but why not go the whole hog? Before it was swallowed to make way for X, Twitter was known for regularly changing its logo.
Someone in the the comments claimed to have a degree in advertising and suggested that this new red could be seen as ‘friendlier’ and as a way to distance YouTube from the similar red color it shares with Netflix.
YouTube’s xFE0000 is ‘pure red’, and as there have been plenty of different shades in the past, most are unable to see what all the fuss is about. Still, it’s clear you aren’t happy.
One disgruntled fan said: “Pure red is my favorite color. I find the new one uglier, disproportionately so when you think about how small of a change it really is. I’m the same way with reds that lean slightly towards pink or orange.”
Another raged: “I’m moderately colorblind and it makes the UI more difficult.”
Not everyone hated it, as someone else chimed in: “Pure red hurts to look at, the pinkish red is a lot more easier on the eyes, so i appreciate the color change, although I’m not too sure why they couldn’t have chosen a darker shade.”
We’d understand if there was outrage after YouTube changed its logo to some sort of abstract monstrosity where you can’t tell it’s YouTube, but at the end of the day, this is just a slight color change to most. Unless you’re colorblind and it’s genuinely affecting your UI, we’re sure there are bigger problems going on in the world right now.