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Remember all that “stay in school” propaganda our parents pushed on us growing up. Remember how bullish dad was on us going to college, as if drunkenly peeing the bed three times a week and shouldering obscene amounts of debt was a rite of passage into adulthood.
In the age of spectacle without substance, education is about as useful as a netted condom.
Exhibit A: The Cash Me Ousside girl, who was featured on the Dr. Phil episode titled “I Want To Give Up My Car-Stealing, Knife-Wielding, Twerking 13-Year-Old Daughter Who Tried To Frame Me For A Crime,” is now a gold-selling rapper worth millions.
Exhibit B: A six-year-old YouTube “star” just bought an entire fucking apartment complex.
Boram, a Korean YouTube celebrity made famous by a toy review channel with more than 13 million followers and a blog channel with more than 17 million subscribers, purchased a five-story building in the trendy South Korean suburb of Gangnam in the capital Seoul, one of the country’s richest regions.
A quick reminder that her immense fortune was cultivated through videos of her reviewing toys. Saving the world. (I’m not mad).
CNN reports that the price of the property was around $8 million, which is pocket change for Boram, who makes an estimated $3.1 million a MONTH from video-related revenue.
This video titled “Boram has a cold” has amassed over 334 million views on YouTube.
Again, not mad and these are not tears.
Boram far from the only child millionaire. According to Forbes, the highest earning YouTuber last year was seven-year-old Ryan Kaji aka Ryan ToysReview, who earned an estimated $22 million through his channel, which has over 20.8 million subscribers.
Me? Oh, I’m doing just fine.
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