19-year-old who makes $10,000 a month from his video game side hustle: 'I never knew that writing could make me' so much money

the top gamer on the platform makes ~10x more money from direct payouts per year than the top music artist on the platform.

The Author’s Guild reported that the average U.S. full-time author “earned a median annual income from writing-related activities of $23,329 in 2022, of which an average of $12,000 was from their books.” (The median American worker brings home an estimated $54,132 a year.)

Now if that doesn’t scare you off, I don’t know what could.

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To make $1000 per month, a creator needs about 100K Instagram followers, 2M views monthly on YouTube or 25M on TikTok (New Creator Manifesto, 2021). Contrast this with platforms that provide a more competitive mechanism for creator monetization. Just over 200 subscribers on Substack, OnlyFans, Twitch or Patreon at $5 per month will yield the same $... See more