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(12-09-2014 10:42 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  

(12-09-2014 08:06 AM)Parlay44 Wrote:  

I just think it's a sign of the times. Bitches are so silly with cats these days that a stupid little cat can generate that much money in sales. It's crazy.

With some very good viral content nowadays you can make millions $. That Vitaly guy from Youtube made millions with his channel. The same goes for the guy who dressed his dog as a spider and did those pranks.

Grumpy cat is just much more market-able. Due to our very connected current media culture such viral stuff might be more profitable in the future.

Not exactly. The typical pay for youtube videos after the split is something like 1000 dollars per million views, unless the person gets a lot of viewers in a marketable niche like baby toys and so provides extra value to advertisers.
The SA Wardega channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/wardegasa/about), has 399,303,345 views as of right now, with nearly a 1/3rd of those coming from the spider dog video. So, they have something like 400-500K gross income from youtube, having joined about 3 years ago, it works out to 130,000 a year or so, but really the lion's share of that is the last year when they have been popular.

Also, there is no way the woman and her cat have generated 100 MM in profit, let alone taken home that much.
Just because Business Insider or the Daily Fail publishes something doesn't make it true.
For example, Dan Bilzerian is said to have a net worth of 100 MM on wikipedia. The source? An article in the Daily Fail that has been passed around and cited in other publications. What does he own? Just because you take a picture in front of a private jet doesn't mean you own it. He likes to vaguely imply that his financial criminal father stashed money abroad, but I don't buy that. It's actually really, really difficult to hide money in the financial system these days. There is a huge scandal in Brazil right now involving Petrobras and many top politicians and business owners, and it all began with a money laundering investigation and just three Federal Police agents.
Blizerian makes good money now, but when you look at the early pictures especially and in general all of his instagram stuff, there is NO proof that he is anything but someone with access to money in the 6 figures and free time on his hands. People buy into that shit, because they want to believe. I know a handful of people in the ultra high net worth category, and the one common denominator is that they avoid publicity like the plague.