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Agreed, it’s definitely inaccurate. I didn’t know about social blade but I just looked up my own channel and the high end of earnings is still underestimated by about 60%. Again even Minks’ isn’t a large amount in comparison to a high paying career/owning a business, but it’s a fun hobby that you happen to get compensated for. I love her channel and she does seem like a very genuine person, I was just totally thrown by her statement
I kind of took what she said about not making much from Youtube as meaning it's not the amount people assume influencers make (where they can fund their trips and all their purchases). She also lives in California where cost of living is not cheap depending on the city, so it might just be a perspective thing.
I agree. It all depends on how you view it. For example, we buy Chanel so often and we get used to the high prices of these bags, so when a friend says "that Gucci bag is $900, too expensive" then we think "wow that's super cheap" because our definition of "expensive" is different from the friend's. I believe when Minnie said her income from Youtube is nothing, it means not as much as people think and still not enough to fund her expenses.
You maybe have ads? Minks doesn't run ads on her videos as far as I know. I've never seen any ads run on her videos ever and I've never seen sponsored content by her -- not a regular watcher though, so maybe that's changed. But without ads and without sponsored content she would get 0. You have to provide YouTube with a lot of personal information to verify yourself and make money and some people won't give that information over, so even with 30K subbies or whatever they can make $0. She seems uber private about herself so I bet she refuses to provide personal info to YouTube. I wouldn't give my SSN and bank info to YouTube or ad companies just for a few dollars. And you have to spend thousands on bags or rings or whatever for clicks to make the $50-100 most make. Seems like a loss.
I really don’t know how she gets all that money LOL but I’ve seen some Youtubers buying their own car and houses and all they do is create content online, I guess they are earning that much to do that
Oh my gosh you cracked me up - it really is a plague! Every other YouTuber but especially those who love Chanel have been hawking urban revivo. I was annoyed a few months ago when Stylehard partnered with them given that I think she has good taste and the same exact thing you mentioned - the clothes were cute and I was dismayed at everything being just another array of fast fashion plastic fabric. I find it too unrealistic that these YouTubers are really buying the hype - same thing when they tell us Chanel is their favorite brand but miraculously senreve is the greatest bag in their collection. I get they have to make their money but at least the farfetch partnerships make sense.Claire Chanelle posted a new collection video of her 26 Chanel bags on Youtube. It's a very beautiful, albeit unrealistic collection.
Her video is sponsored by Urban Revivo which seems to be the new plague of the Influencer Town. She's showing of these Chanel inspired pieces and mentions the problems with fast fashion and how it's important to look at the composition of the pieces...while wearing a Urban Revivo cardigan (39% acrylic, 33% polyester, 28% polyamide) and showing off another Urban Revivo tweed jacket (both shell and lining 100% polyester). The cognitive dissonance is through the roof here.
I'm sure she'll be able to add a few Chanel pieces to her collection with the sponsorship money. Or, she could use that money to add like 167 new beautiful Urban Revivo pieces to her collection! I wonder which option she'd go for
Also, my apologies in case she's a TPF user - I do appreciate her videos and understand she's just playing the influencer game.
In one recent video, Mink4all revealed that she didn't make much from Youtube. Most of the fund for her bags comes from savings. I know she doesn't do sponsorships so she probably doesn't make as much as Je Suis Lou but still, I think Lou is so fake. There is no way a 25 year old student could afford a house like that with lux everything from pillows to shoes to extremely expensive handbags and all the travels without support from anyone else. She can defend herself all she wants but I'm not gonna buy it. I was a Master's student with a fulltime job. I could barely afford a Neverfull back then. So many bills to pay for. There is just no way. I read about her in another forum and some people living in the same city as her confirmed there is no way a student could afford a lux life like that in Mexico. People need to stop lying and pretending they're super rich and it's all because of hard work. We all work hard but some are more fortunate to have wealthy parents, there's nothing wrong with it. Idon't know why they have to hide it and claim everything is earned by hard workSomeone even reported she bought followers so the numbers don't really reflect how much she actually makes. We don't know.
Also, I don't think she wears fake bags, but she hides things which is shady. In a video she shared she didn't do anything to her hair, that's how she saved up to buy a bag. But come on, how much is a bag? 9k usd? 12k? how many salon visits does she need to give up to make up for the bags? not to mention how often she buys her bags, shoes, random lux stuff... and everything she buys is the most high-end (classic flaps, birkin, kelly... not cheap at all). How many people making 6 figures here can actually buy some of those bags a year at her rate? She's just a student! It does not make sense at all.
