{"id":78296,"date":"2015-07-09T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=78296"},"modified":"2015-07-09T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T08:45:18","slug":"pewdiepie-and-the-hate-he-gets-for-earning-7-r87-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/78296-pewdiepie-and-the-hate-he-gets-for-earning-7-r87-million","title":{"rendered":"PewDiePie and the hate he gets for earning $7 (R87) million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know YouTubers can make a pretty-penny from their uploaded videos on the Google-owned platform, but exactly how much money do gaming YouTubers actually make?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A lot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PewDiePie, one of the most subscribed-to gaming channels racks up hundreds of thousands of views per video, and this turns into some serious moola.<\/p>\n<p>Felix Kjellberg, 25, is the guy behind the channel and its sole content creator. And if you thought &#8220;well, he&#8217;s <strong>big<\/strong> on the net, but surely he can&#8217;t make <strong>that<\/strong> much money!?&#8221;, you&#8217;d be sorely mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>Kjellberg racked in around $7 million in 2014, which translates to over R87 million down here in the good ol&#8217; Republic of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>While his fans were happy that\u00a0Kjellberg was rewarded for his hard work on PewDiePie, a lot of critics came calling too. This sparked a video from\u00a0Kjellberg to discuss his money-making and address the haters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>What people don&#8217;t think about until it&#8217;s in their face is that I have nine billion views, and that translates to something,<\/em>&#8221; PewDiePie says. <em>&#8220;I have ads on my videos and that translates to something.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>They thought I just sit on my ass all day and just yell at the screen over here, which is true! But there&#8217;s so much more to it than that, and I understand haters are gonna hate, right?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Amen, PewDie.<\/p>\n<p>Check out his video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zn0y3Opb8Wk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Article courtesy of<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More gaming features to check out<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Nintendo\u2019s NX is less powerful than the PS4\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/78284-nintendos-nx-is-less-powerful-than-the-ps4.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nintendo\u2019s NX is less powerful than the PS4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Sega wants us to love them again\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/78278-sega-wants-us-to-love-them-again.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sega wants us to love them again<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to The questionable Nintendo PlayStation prototype may be a fake\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/78216-the-questionable-nintendo-playstation-prototype-may-be-a-fake.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The questionable Nintendo PlayStation prototype may be a fake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine billion views has to translate into something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":78298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14680,1596,1966,1969,14676,1157,1713,14678],"class_list":["post-78296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-felix-kjellberg","tag-gamers","tag-games","tag-news-2","tag-pewdiepie","tag-video-games","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78316,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78296\/revisions\/78316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}