These Are Forbes’ Highest Paid YouTube Stars of 2016
Another year and Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie is back on top of Forbes‘ highest paid YouTube stars list. Unsurprisingly, the 26-year-old’s account boasts the most subscribers on the platform, with 49.6 million as of press time. However, PewDiePie (real name Felix Kjellberg) recently announced that he would be deleting his YouTube channel once he hits 50 million subscribers after suggesting that the platform is promoting only clickbait through its “Recommended Videos” algorithm and hurting content creators’ views in the process. (more…)