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Eight-Year-Old Boy Is The Highest-Paid YouTuber For Second Year In A Row

When you were eight-years-old, you probably spent most of your days mucking about and playing with toys. Well, that is exactly what Ryan Kaji does as well – but he’s raking in an estimated $26 million (£19.8 million).

According to Forbes, Ryan – who has 22 million subscribers on his channel – was the highest-paid person on YouTube for the second year in a row, with his earnings increasing from $22 million (£17.3 million) last year.

The rich list was compiled based on how much money the YouTubers brought in from the site between June 2018 and June 2019.

Ryan, from Texas, USA, started out reviewing toys when he was three and has now surely earned enough to buy every toy he could possibly desire.

But rather than retiring at the age of eight, Ryan has expanded further and now has a line of more than 100 toys, a show on Nickelodeon and is branching out into science experiments on his channel, Ryan’s World (formerly Ryan ToysReview).

But it’s not all completely rosy in Ryan’s household. In September, his parents were accused of not fully disclosing sponsored content.

Consumer watchdog Truth In Advertising claimed Ryan’s parents Shion and Kieu-Loan Guan did not always clearly disclose when sponsored products were incorporated in videos – which was almost 90 per cent of the time, the watchdog claimed.

Monday Ashibogwu

Monday Michaels Ashibogwu is Editor-In-Chief of QUICK NEWS AFRICA, one of Nigeria's leading online news service.

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