15 YouTube Stars Who’ve Become Millionaires

3. Smosh – $8.5 Million

This one is relatively understandable. These best friends from California realized that YouTube is a great medium for reaching an audience. So they started out doing live action skits that were derived from Pokémon games. They branched out from there and now have 5 YouTube channels. They even have a full length movie and a Smosh en Espanol channel.