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How Much We Earned On YouTube in Our First 5 Months (20K Subscribers)

And our goals in the new year.

Kevin Shan
Internet Millionaires
7 min readJan 2, 2025

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It’s January 1st, 2025, and I’m sitting at a Starbucks in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, waiting to board a flight to Thailand.

What’s unreal is the fact that I even wrote that sentence.

The first half of 2024 certainly wasn’t the best for me, but the latter half made up for it. I had just spent three months training in Malaysia, and now I’m about to embark on another two-month adventure in Thailand.

The business initiatives I started in the middle of 2024 allowed me to quit my coaching job and make money wherever I was.

One of these initiatives was a YouTube channel I co-created with my brother.

Robust developments in AI, particularly regarding speech synthesis, allowed us to overcome one of our biggest mental blocks when making videos — showing our faces and talking.

With the power of ElevenLabs, we no longer needed to record ourselves, so we began creating badminton analysis videos.

Our main goal was to make videos to help ourselves improve in badminton, so we did not expect to earn much from our videos or even get monetized as fast as we did.

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Kevin Shan
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