Forbes magazine has again placed Jeffree Star at number five on its list of the highest YouTube earners of the year. The makeup guru netted an estimated $17million in 2019. He has 16.8million subscribers to his channel.
Star also placed at number five last year, with a calculated income of $18million in 2018.
As well as generating money through advertising, he netted much of his worth through sales of his highly successful makeup range, Jeffree Star Cosmetics.
That said, 2019 hasn’t all been plain sailing. In April, the influencer revealed thieves had broken into a warehouse storing his makeup stock and made off with an estimated $2.5million of products.
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The latest Forbes placing makes the gay vlogger and entrepreneur the most profitable makeup YouTuber in a top ten dominated by video game players and kids.
At number one on the list is eight-year-old Ryan Kaji of Ryan’s World, who has built a huge following with videos opening presents and playing with toys. For this, the youngster netted an estimated $26million in 2019. Kind of puts your holidays bonus into perspective, right?
Ryan was not the only child on the list. At number three is Anastasia ‘Nastya’ Radzinskaya. The Russian 5-year-old has cerebral palsy. Her parents started posting YouTube videos of her shortly after she was born to show her progress to friends and family, but they proved unexpectedly popular with the general public.
It’s believed her channel helped generate $18million in revenue for the family.
Other established names on the list include Markiplier (Mark Edward Fischbach) and PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg) in joint seventh place (on $13million each).
Kjellberg recently announced he was going to take a break for a while due to exhaustion, so his 2020 figure could be lower.
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Star, 34, began his career as a musician on MySpace, but launched his own cosmetics brand in 2014 and hasn’t looked back since.
In the summer he posted a video of himself surprising his boyfriend Nathan with a brand new Aston Martin. We have a feeling the holiday celebrations in the Star household will be lavish!
You can read the full Forbes list here.
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Chrisk
I Can’t believe people actually watch that vomit inducing shit. Apparently lots are and making him filthy rich. Yikes.
Also interesting how the kids are raking in the $ when their fan base is mostly kids. Oh wait. Yeah, the parents.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Rapper Lil’ Bow Wow was reported to be near bankrupt in the not too distant past. In an effort to thwart those rumors he goes out and gets his picture taken with a private jet and a rolls-royces parked next to it. It was soon revealed he had posted a photo shopped image and he offered nothing to prove otherwise (in other words he couldn’t produce either the plane, the rolls-royce nor explain how his luxury sports car got repossessed).
sfhairy
Ugh, I work in the beauty industry (corporate side) and none of us like him (Jeffrey Star).
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I just did a google search and according to what I read advertisers only pay when a viewer has watched the COMPLETE ad. As do most of us that ad is gone as soon as the SKIP AD tab appears in the lower right hand corner of the screen. What makes this guy so special that many people watch COMPLETE ads to net him $17 million? Those numbers sound too fishy. I would have to see copies of cancelled checks from google or direct deposit slips from google to believe those figures. Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk has over 3 billion hits and I doubt if he has made that much from youtube.
UlfRaynor
Obviously you didn’t read the article, it clearly states he made the money off of his cosmetic business.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Please point out WHERE in the article it states just what you said. No where in this article does it not lead the reader to believe this alleged fortune wasn’t made off of youtube and you know it.
Kangol2
@Sis, you’re having trouble comprehending these straightforward articles.
The Queerty piece says, “As well as generating money through advertising, he netted much of his worth through sales of his highly successful makeup range, Jeffree Star Cosmetics.” That’s basically what UlfRaynor wrote.
What about that very clear sentence befuddles you so?
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
From the article: “Forbes magazine has again placed Jeffree Star at number five on its list of the highest YouTube earners of the year. The makeup guru netted an estimated $17million in 2019. He has 16.8million subscribers to his channel.”
Some how I don’t feel that I was wrong in my assumption but if the queen and princess say I’m wrong in my assumption then I MUST be wrong, your grace.
Smith David
I can’t stand this man with a passion. But, i can’t knock his hustle.