YouTuber Earned $16 Million from Minecraft!

The highest-paid YouTuber of 2017 according to Forbes magazine is 26-year-old Briton Daniel Middleton. Daniel created his own channel under the name DanTDM on YouTube in 2012 and started recording videos of the popular game Minecraft.

By the end of 2017, his subscriber count exceeded 17 million, and total views nearly reached 12 billion!

In just one year, the guy earned about $16 million (about 960 million rubles) and took first place in the published ranking. It is worth noting that famous YouTuber Felix Kjellberg (PewDiePie) dropped to sixth place due to controversial events.