Celebs who owe their success to YouTube – Once upon a time, YouTube was just a place where you and your friends could upload videos and share them with people around the world. No one was making millions of dollars from making videos for YouTube – it was just for fun. Now, YouTube is a media giant, and the most popular channel to make fortunes for their creators.
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The staggering amount of profit some YouTube users generate is almost comical. Consider Jordan Maron, also known as CaptainSparklez, who used the money he made making YouTube videos of himself playing Minecraft to buy a $4.575 million home in the Hollywood Hills this year. Maron is only 23 years old. Of course, money is not the only reward successful YouTubers have managed to find – some of them have established successful acting careers based on their work on YouTube.
Talent agencies now actively watch YouTube, looking for the next big star, so they can take them from internet fame to bonafide Hollywood fame. Groups like Good Neighbor, The Lonely Island, and Smosh started out on YouTube and made their members into famous celebrities. You can now see one-time YouTubers like Andy Samberg and Beck Bennett on television shows on major networks, like Brooklyn Nine Nine and Saturday Night Live.
With more and more YouTube success stories appearing every year, competition is becoming more fierce, and it’s not as easy to make it on YouTube as it once was. Here are 10 actors who managed to bridge successful YouTube channels into real fame and fortune.
10. Bo Burnham
Bo Burnham is a hilarious, offbeat comedian who started in his parents’ attic, singing funny songs he wrote himself about his own awkwardness. He quickly became incredibly popular online and eventually released an album of his songs. Now he takes his act on tour, and he has tried his hand as an actor to a certain degree of success. His first role was in the Judd Apatow film Funny People, but he went on to star in his own TV show on MTV called Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous, and has had guest appearances on shows like Parks and Recreation and Key and Peele.
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