This is Boram. She's six years old and already richer than you and I ever will be.
She's made her millions with a wildly successful YouTube channel in which she reviews toys and plays with them. She is so skilled at these tasks that she recently purchased a multi-million dollar house. CNN laments:
Boram bought the 9.5 billion Korean won ($8 million) building in the trendy Seoul suburb of Gangnam earlier this year, through the Boram Family company, which was set up by the YouTuber's parents, according to a public real estate registration document.
Boram is not an outlier. Some of the highest-paid YouTubers are kids:
According to Forbes, the highest earning YouTuber last year was seven-year-old Ryan Kaji, the American star of Ryan ToysReview. In 2018, he earned an estimated $22 million through his channel, which has attracted over 20.8 million subscribers.
Other young stars include five-year-old American Tydus, who appears on his family's YouTube channel Trav and Cor, which has 3.1 million subscribers.
YouTubers make money in a number of ways, including through taking a cut of the ads that play on their videos, and by partnering with brands to sell merchandise or include products in their content. Boram, for instance, sometimes links out to products featured in her video reviews.
-via Dave Barry