Posted on 04/26/2021 5:32:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Lionel B Show has 90 million views and counting
Things were looking down for Lionel Barnes in late 2018. He’d been let go from his information technology job in Plant City. A rocky relationship had ended. He was soon sleeping in his 20-year-old Mercedes with his teenage son, Lionel Jr. He’d park in front of fast food restaurants in Tampa and use the free internet to apply for jobs.
Trying to figure out how to come up with some money, he remembered his old Google Adsense account. The platform allows YouTube video creators -- something Barnes dabbled in with little success -- to get paid. The more views of a video, and its corresponding ads, the more money.
“I had $38 in there, and you need at least $100 before YouTube will pay out,” Barnes said. “I thought, if I could just make another $62, I can get a whole $100.”
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In between, he ironed his clothes in a gazebo in a public park before job interviews, including one at a Tampa Bay television station, where, he said, they worried his videos might conflict with the news work they did.
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Looks like he bought more bling with the money.
He’d been let go from his information technology job in Plant City
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Guessing he was replaced by an H1B Indian
Cool story.
“I guess it’s like the saying, it takes 10 years to be an overnight success.”
Ain’t it the truth!
Thanks for posting this! Great story and the guy seems to have a great attitude.
GO Lionel B!
“He’d park in front of fast food restaurants in Tampa and use the free internet to apply for jobs.”
I know people who do this, esp. this one guy who runs in my circle. But mostly he uses it to download torrents LOL. From what he told me on wifi: Starbucks throttles downloads. Coffee Bean is better. Wendy’s sucks. He knows where to go and park.
Good for him. From that original payday, he has solidified an income stream from YouTube (for the time being), branched out to production and vintage car stuff, and so will have options going forward. Americans can still dream.
Amazing money being made on Youtube.
There are tech pc / cellphone, movie/tv reviews, sailing channels that get 10’s to over a million views in a single day. One sailing show I started viewing started 1 year ago and now has 150,000 subscribers. They just sail around and drink and eat, mainly drink.
A tech show routinely gets 1 million views in a day or two.
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