The Internet Has Been Fooling You
Statistically speaking, almost everyone is going to fail.
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3 min readOct 25, 2024
- Only 8% of YouTube channels earn money. Only 5% of YouTubers earn enough to live comfortably with YouTube alone.
- Only 0.3% of YouTubers earn $5,000 or more monthly, and even fewer make enough to become millionaires.
- Only 10% of the Etsy stores make more than $400.
- The average earnings for an OnlyFans creator is between $150 and $180 per month, totaling around $2,000 per year.
- The average monthly income of a Medium writer is 75.72. Only 65% of writers make money there.
- Only 10% of Twitch streamers earn six figures. There are 7.5 million active streamers on the platform, and just over 1,000 of them have 1,000 subscribers.
- 98.6% of the world’s Spotify artists earn $12 per month.
- A regular podcaster with 5,000 downloads only earns $90. But only 7.1% of podcasts get 5,000 downloads per episode.
- The average earnings of a Patreon user is $88 monthly.
- Most people earn less than a dollar daily in the Quora Partner Program. They paid less than $9 for 23 million content views.
- Only 1% of educators on Udemy make a full-time income. 75% of users on…
