MyLifeIsACollectionOfMiserableVacationsLikeJen Pt. 272

I can actually help with this. I’ll say the YouTube video income is basically nothing. If it were significant I don’t think she would have killed her MHWL channel. Maybe Don paid her to take those down but but with the frequency of her uploads and current views she’s not making more than 6k a year from YT. Most OG YouTubers were in it for the free shit and Jen used to LOVE free shit.

The people who make money learned how to get sponsorships/mastered affiliate marketing/streaming/ make paid subscriber content and found success on other platforms (Jen isn’t making any cash from her dying insta.) Sure, with a channel her size she could make more money but Jen will never put the work in. She’s in it for the views alone and some small percentage on the links under her videos. She’d have to treat her job as a job to make money.

The sad truth is, with lifestyle and travel blogs only people with cult followings like Jonna make money from views alone. Everyone else has someone else paying for it (like Jen) and unfortunately a large number of the younger ones are in sex work. (No judgement from me on that one, sugar daddy money spends just the same as real daddy or exs)

The people who are making the most on YT right now from views are the ASMR people.

It’s to the influencers benefit to make people believe that social blade is wholly inaccurate, their big egos couldn’t handle people knowing the truth.