What is Carson King's net worth? A look at the fortune the 21-year-old makes from YouTube and Twitch
YouTuber and comedian Carson King is a well-known name in the world of social media and apart from his videos on YouTube, the 21-year-old social media star is also a very active Twitch streamer. He is also known for his gaming skills on Minecraft. The young lad is all over the news most recently when a now-deleted Twitter thread claimed that Carson used to indulge in sexting with his underaged fans.
The Twitter thread claimed, “tw // grooming , pedophilia if you didn't watch keemstar's video and aren't in the headspace to right now basically what was said is that carson had been sexting and sending sexual things to his underaged fans for months and all of lunch club knew and didn't say anything.”
The Twitter user, also wrote, "+ they don't know if he still does this because they haven't really spoken to him for awhile.” The thread further read, “Lunch club were a group of creators (callmecarson, jschlatt, slimecicle, traves, hugbox, ted nivison and cscoop) from smplive that formed a collaborative group.”
Carson King, who runs his YouTube channel under the name CallMeCarson, has been on social media since 2011. He made his first video in the same year under the username bluecreepers1 with the title ‘Minecraft Multiplayer Adventures-Episode 1:Awesome’. He filmed 26 videos before switching to his new YouTube channel. He surely makes a lot of moolah from his videos and therefore, let’s have a look at his flourishing net worth.
Carson King’s net worth
According to the website YouTube Fandom, the social media influencer first opened his YouTube account on his birthday on May 10, 2012. He creates videos with his friends, typically recording themselves on Discord or in a video game such as Minecraft. He started gaining fame for his ‘Invading Discord Servers’ and ‘DeviantArt is NOT Safe’ videos.
If we check the stats on the website Stashmash, it says Carson has a net worth of $1.2 million as of January 2021 and the website Naibuzz reported that Carson’s net value in 2020 stood at $7,50,000.
Earnings from YouTube
Carson first touched the one million subscribers mark on his YouTube channel in March 2019, while his next million subscribers came early as he touched the two million number by September 2019. He crossed three million subscribers and accumulated over 350 million views on his YouTube channel in August 2020.
According to the website Naibuzz, Carson King gets 300,000 views per day from different sources which add up to the revenue of around $1,500 per day which amounts to $550,000 a year from advertisements on the videos. YouTubers get paid between $2 to $7 per 1000 monetized views after YouTube takes its share and the monetized views range from 40% to 80% of the total views.
Carson also runs another YouTube channel called CallMeCarsonLIVE which has close to 2 million followers allowing him to further make more money.
Earnings from Twitch
Apart from YouTube, Carson pockets extra money through his Twitch account with the help of subscribers, ad revenue, donations and Twitch bits. According to the website Naibuzz, Carson had 70,000 followers at the beginning of 2020 where he had accumulated over 260,000 views but cut to 2021, his Twitch account now stands strong with a massive 1.4 million followers.