David Dobrik might want to be careful with the money he currently has because while he was once making over $275,000 each month thanks to YouTube, he took a staggering financial hit that significantly hurt his earnings. Although he's seen an enormous increase in his monthly channel views over the years, he told Men's Health in 2019 that a year or two earlier something had drastically changed when it comes to how money was being made (and paid) behind the scenes.
Dobrik explained that "there was this thing ... called the 'Adpocalypse' and basically a bunch of advertisers pulled out of YouTube and some YouTubers started to get paid a lot less because their content wasn't friendly [meaning it's inappropriate for some viewers], so advertisers wouldn't come on the channel anymore." The star added, "I was one of those people."
So even though Dobrik is getting "more than three times the amount of views" than he was before, his monthly paycheck is now "under $2,000." If you do a bit of math, that means that he went from making more than $3,300,000 from YouTube per year to around $24,000. He admitted, "I'm actually making less money a month now on YouTube than I was when I was waiting tables at a retirement home." Ouch! Thankfully for Dobrik, he likely still has plenty of cash in the bank.
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