
In the meantime, Green estimates that he’s making roughly one-sixth the money per thousand views on TikTok than he is on YouTube. And other creators chimed in with similar experiences: Victoria Paris, who has 1.3 million followers, posted a chart of her TikTok earnings that showed them decreasing by two-thirds in the past year. The Information noted that one of the world’s highest-paid creators, Jimmy “Mr. Beast” Donaldson, made $54 million on YouTube — and posted a screenshot showing TikTok creator fund earnings of just $15,000.