Introduction
Hey there everyone, it's me again with another topic and I hope you love it. It's a topic I've always wanted to cover and I'm finally getting the chance to do so and I want all of you to like it as well so here are the Top 10 Richest Streamers In The World.
10. MoonMoon_OW - Net Worth: $1.7 Million
Jesse aka MoonMoon was born on 20th March, 1990 in the USA.
MoonMoon began streaming in 2016 starting off by streaming Overwatch which was released in that year. He gained instant fame and his follower count sky rocketed.
As of now he has over 849K followers on Twitch and continues to entertain his loyal fans. He even has his own YouTube channel with over 146K subscribers and 26 Million views despite not being able to upload for the past eight months. He has a total following of 97.8K on Twitter.
So let's get to the main part which is his net worth. He has an estimated net worth of $1.7 Million and is continuing to increase and I'll definitely need to update this list soon.
He hasn't revealed a lot about his personal life so unfortunately I won't be able to present all of you with his other details as well. But altogether he's a pretty hard working guy and deserves the fame he hasn't gotten over the years.
9. Nightblue3 - Net Worth: $2.5 Million
Nightblue3 born Rabia Yazbek is a Twitch streamer and professional League of Legends E-Sports player.
He was born on the 31st of July, 1993 in the United States. He has done a lot for charity and has raised over $30,000. He currently lives in Dearborn, Michigan.
He has an estimated net worth of $2.5 Million and rightfully earned himself a spot on the list of Top 10 Most Followed Twitch Streamers.
He currently has a following of over 2.5 Million on Twitch and has an even bigger following on YouTube with over 2.7 Million subscribers. He has a following of 323K on Twitter as well.
8. Dr DisRespect - Net Worth: $3.5 Million
Herschel Beahm IV known as Dr DisRespect all around the world is an American Twitch streamer.
Born on March 10, 1982 Beahm is 37 years old and has been a steamer on Twitch since 2015 and has an amazing total of 3.8 Million followers on Twitch.
He has an estimated of $3.5 Million and earns a lot of money from Twitch and some from YouTube and many brand deals.
He has been active on YouTube since 2010 and has a mass following of over 1.29 Million subscribers.
He mostly plays PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) during his streams and has been a pioneer in the upcoming of the game. He currently plays more Call of Duty: Modern Warfare since it's release last month.
Beahm had been a Community Manager at Sledgehammer Games and was a level manager there and helped create many maps for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
He is married and has a daughter with his wife. On September 11, 2018 a person had shot at his house and had hit his upstairs window, this was the second time that someone shot at his house.
He has been sponsored by GFuel for quite some time now and is one of the main content creators for the grand alongside the likes of PewDiePie, Keemstar and KSI.
7. PhantomL0rd - Net Worth: $4 Million
PhantomL0rd aka James Varga is a streamer and youtuber. He was born on October 7th 1988 is currently 31 years old.
Start this career on Twitch, key used to play Team Fortress classic, Counter Strike, Victory arena III and World Of Warcraft before he started playing League of Legends.
After playing playing the game for a few months he began to climb the ladder and became world number 1 on September 26 2011.
His Twitch channel was suspended in July 2016 when he had 1.4 million followers for being associated with the CSGO skin gambling site called CSGO shuffle. In February 2018 he filed a lawsuit against Twitch over the suspension saying that it was improperly suspended.
He allegedly in the lawsuit says that Twitch was supposed to give a 30 days prior notice before terminating an account.
In January 2017, he got the answer to the questions on why his account was suspended. Nearly 5 months after it happened, when a Twitch representative told him that his channel had fraudulent subscribers.
Even though that is what Twitch said it was not true. The actual reason why he was suspended was because he posted too much non gaming content on his channel. Which included CSGO skin gambling which is against the content guidelines.
According to his suit he suffered significant financial and reputational harm as a result of the suspension which occurred despite having fully satisfying all the conditions of his contract.
He no longer streams on Twitch and has moved on to YouTube. His Twitch channel is no longer available. Currently has over 446K subscribers on YouTube.
Let's get onto the interesting part. This is all about you why he is so rich and who is the richest, so he has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
He has made most of his money of Twitch and YouTube and has become a global sensation. His name is known very well in the gaming community right now.
6. Shroud - Net Worth: $6 Million
Michael Grzesiek aka Shroud was born on June 2nd 1994. He is known online as Shroud. His former online alias was mEclipse.
He is a former screamer and professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player. He is most notable for playing players PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Call of Duty Black Ops 4, Rainbow Six Siege, Apex Legends, Minecraft, Battalion 1944 and World Of Warcraft Classic.
As of now Shroud has 7,058,377 followers on Twitch. His total number of views is over 365 million currently at 365,261,427.
He shocked the world in late October 2019 by announcing that he has moved to Mixer to stream exclusively on the platform and has left which completely.
As of now Shroud has over 5.59 million subscribers on YouTube. He has been active on the platform since 2014. His total number of views on YouTube is 561,720,909.
He started his career by playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with several ESEA teams, particularly Exertus and Manajuma.
He signed with Cloud9 in August 2014 when CompLexity was acquired by Cloud9. He helped lead them to second place in ESL One Cologne 2017 and first place finish at ESL Pro League Season 4 in 2016.
On August 16, 2017 he announced that he would be stepping down from the Cloud9 team but he would remain as a substitute on the bench. In a pool of 2018 he left cloud9 and Counter-Strike entirely.
He kept on streaming full time on Twitch until October 2019. On October 24th 2019 he officially announced his move from Twitch to Mixer and would be broadcasting exclusively to their streaming platform following the steps of fellow streamer Ninja who announced a similar deal earlier in the year.
Has an estimated net worth of $6 million. He currently has above 825K followers on Mixer and is one of the top guys there as well.
5. TimTheTatman - Net Worth: $6.5 Million
Timothy John Betar known online as TimTheTatman was born on April 8, 1990.
He is an American Twitch streamer and internet personality. Based out of New York, United States he began his career in 2012 by streaming on Twitch.
He is most notable for playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Fortnite, overwatch, World Of Warcraft, Apex Legends and GTA 5.
He is a Monster Energy eSports athlete and is sponsored by Audio-Technica Corporation.He became a full-time creator on Twitch in March 2014 and is currently a certified Twitch partner as well.
Even though he is known for his Twitch streams he started his YouTube channel even before joining Twitch way back in 2011 but only got fame after he started streaming on Twitch.
He currently has over 1.77 million subscribers on YouTube with over a total of 216 million views as well.
He started streaming Fortnite in 2017 and his viewership skyrocketed. Although the game lost it's popularity in between streamers like Tim, Ninja and Tfue saw a steady increase in followers as the game grew in popularity.
During E3 2018, Epic Games held its first ever Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am which saw celebrities from several avenues getting paired up with professional Gamers to raise money for charity.
Although his team lost, he was part of one of the biggest gaming event during the year which opened doors for completive Fortnite.
The Gamers' Choice Award's debuted its first show December 2018. It joined both the video game industry and its players for an evening honoring them based on fan feedback.
Here, he won the award for Fan Favorite Male Streamer/Gamer of the Year. A star-studded category that included some of the world's most popular gamer's, including: Ninja, Tfue, Dr. Disrespect, and Shroud.
His fans outlasted the competition to allow TimTheTatman to bring home the honor. During Super Bowl LIII, he and Ninja were flown to Los Angeles and they were on set for the NFL 100 commercial.
The commercial was called the "100-Year-Game" and it was about commemorating the NFL's journey. They were also invited to attend the Super Bowl in partnership with NFL.
He has done a lot of charity work over the years. He teamed up with many fellow streamers to raise money for St.Jude's Children's Research Hospital. They raised over $2.7 million for the charity.
He even broke the Twitch record for the highest charitable donation by raising over $106,000 in 4 hours.
His estimated net worth is $6.5 million and it will only increase looking at how much good work he is doing and how much love he is getting from his fans.
He got married to his long time girlfriend Alexis in 2016 and had their first child on April 11, 2019. They named their son Brewer.
4. Summit1g - Net Worth: $7.5 Million
Jaryd Lazar known mostly by his online alias Summit1g was born on April 23, 1987. He is an American Twitch Streamer and retired competitive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player.
He became popular by streaming CS:GO and WarZ. He continued to remain popular by playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), GTA 5 and Sea of Thieves.
He occasionally streams games such as Fortnite, Apex Legends, Overwatch, Escape from Tarkov and more. He currently plays GTA 5 as well Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
He began streaming on Twitch in 2012 and regularly gets at least 30,000 viewers during a single stream and it has gone up to 90,000 when he streamed Mythic's run at ECS qualifiers in CS:GO.
He has over 4 million followers on Twitch and has garnered 314.7 million views on his streams as of now. He was the most followed Twtich streamer from January 2018 to March 2018.
He has an estimated net worth of $7.5 million and has over 600K subscribers on his YouTube channel as well. He has a total of over 88 million views on YouTube.
He mostly uploads his stream highlights to his YouTube channel, he streams daily without fail most of the time.
He has played a huge part in trailblazing the path for gamers and has received a lot of support and love for that.
3. Tfue - Net Worth: $10 Million
Turner Ellis Tenney known to the online world as Tfue was born on January 2, 1998. He is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, professional gamer and internet personality.
He began streaming on Twitch as well as uploading videos on YouTube in 2014 but wasn't known much until he made his transition to Fortnite in 2017.
He joined the world renowned eSports organization and internet personality group FaZe Clan on April 30, 2018.
In May 2018, Tfue was banned from Twitch for 30 days for allegedly saying a racial slur. The decision was reversed after reviewing footage and seeing that the word wasn't used in a racial manner.
He was permanently banned from his Epic Games account because he was buying and selling Epic Games accounts which is prohibited and against Epic Games' terms and conditions.
Just a week later he was banned from Twitch again but this time for only 14 days for unknown reasons which were not revealed.
He has over 7.2 million followers on Twitch as of now and is the most followed streamer, taking the title after Ninja officially moved to Mixer to stream exclusively there. He also has over 175.8 million views on his Twitch channel.
He has garnered over 11.3 million subscribers on YouTube making him the first person on this list to have passed the 10 million mark and has over a total of 1.113 billion views on his YouTube channel and once again being the first on this list to reach that feat.
After being part of FaZe Clan for over a year he filed a lawsuit against them claiming they pressured him to live in one of their homes in Los Angeles as well pressured him to underage drinking and illegally gambling.
He went on to say that FaZe encouraged him to engage in dangerous stunts and that he only got 20% from any branded videos that were published on Twitch, YouTube or social media and half of his revenue from touring and appearances.
FaZe Clan responded on Twitter saying that they didn't take any money from him whatsoever. They said they took $60,000 from his branded videos and offered him an improved contract multiple times with him getting 100% of his money but he didn't accept any of those contracts.
In August 2019 FaZe Clan filed a lawsuit against Tenney suing him for violating his contract by leaking confidential information about his contract to media publications, trying to form a rival e-Sports organization and disparaging the company.
He has a net worth of over $10 million making him the second richest Pro Gamer and third richest streamer.
2. Ninja - Net Worth: $15 Million
Richard Tyler Blevins aka Ninja was born on June 5, 1995. He is the world's most renowned and famous gamer right now. He is the most followed streamer on Mixer. He is also a YouTuber.
He started off on Twitch in 2011. He is mostly know for playing Fortnite. He said played many other games such as PUBG, H1Z1, Halo and Alex Legends.
He initially started as a pro gamer in 2009 and has been part of many e-Sports organizations. Some of the most notable ones are Cloud9, Renegades, Team Liquid and Luminosity Gaming.
He has been dubbed the 'King of Twitch' as he was the most followed streamer on the platform. He rose to fame playing Fortnite which at the time was the trend.
He was born in Detroit but he and his family moved to Chicago when he was about a year old. In his childhood he played a lot of video games and sports.
He attended Grayslake Central High School and played soccer known as football outside of North America.
He decided to go professional and play games full time when he graduated. He began playing Halo 3 for which he was known until he started playing Fortnite. He has even PUBG and won the PUBG Gamescom Invitational Squads classification.
When Fortnite began to grow he decided to start streaming and he also saw significant growth. If you think of Ninja then Fortnite will come to mind and vice versa. The word Fortnite is now synonymous with Ninja.
In March 2018 he set the Twitch record for the largest concurrent audience with 635,000 while playing Fortnite with Drake, Travis Scott and Juju Smith-Schuster.
He broke that very same record just a month later when he streamed his event known as Ninja Vegas 2018 and got about 667,000 viewers at the same time.
On June 17, 2018 he announced that he had partnered with Red Bull E-Sports and that fans could challenge him at a special Fortnite event.
The event was organized by Red Bull and was "Red Bull Rise Till Dawn" in Chicago on July 21, 2018.
He became the first professional E-Sports player to be featured on the cover of ESPN The Magazine marking a breakthrough into mainstream sports fame.
He alongside TimTheTatman was flown to Los Angeles to appear in "The 100-Year Game" alongside many NFL players.
In October 2018, Ninja announced a deal with the record label Astralwerks to compile an album titled Ninjawerks: Vol 1 featuring original songs by electronic music acts including Alesso, Nero, Tycho and 3LAU. The album was released on December 14, 2018.
In 2019, according to Reuters Ninja was paid $1 million by Electronic Arts (EA) to promote the new up and coming game Apex Legends by playing the game on his Twitch stream and through his Twitter account.
The most shocking decision by Ninja came on August 1, 2019, when he announced that he would move to Mixer to stream exclusively on their platform. Although it was shocking it was pretty good and everyone loved the idea of trying out new things.
With Ninja's move, Mixer received many new users as many of his fans came with him. Ninja moving to Mixer inspired many other streamers to move there as well. Some of the most notable ones are Shroud and FaZe Ewok.
Ninja got married to Jessica Blevins who is also his manager in 2017. Ninja has an estimated net worth of about $15 million and has earned most of them from his livestreams, YouTube videos, brand deals and promotions.
As of now even though he left Twitch and his channel is dead he has over 14.7 million followers with over 480.6 million views. That is just amazing considering how much he had 2 years back.
On Mixer he currently has over 2.36 million followers with a little over 31.34 million views. He has been streaming there since August and put them on the map.
On YouTube he has over 22.4 million subscribers and over 1.986 billion views. He mostly puts out videos with him and other streamers and him trolling them, stream highlights etc.
1. PewDiePie - Net Worth: $30 Million
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg known all around the world as PewDiePie was born on 24 October, 1989.
He is a Swedish YouTuber, comedian and internet personality. He is known as the king of YouTube because he has the most number of subscribers on the platform with over 102 million. Whoa, that's a lot, right?
He created his channel on 26 April, 2010 and started making videos a short while after that. The date 26 April has been declared 'International PewDiePie Day' by PewDiePie's die hard fans who formed an organization called International PewDiePie Community.
He started off by playing Minecraft and has changed the style of his content many times. He earned popularity through his Let's Play videos.
He has created many shows like LWIAY (Last Week I Asked You) and Meme Review which many celebrities like Dr. Phil and Elon Musk has hosted.
Some of his other notable moments came from the subscribe war between him and Indian record label company T-Series which he ended on 25 April, 2019.
He has two dogs named Edgar and Maya and they both are constantly seen on his channel. Speaking of dogs, let me tell you about what he did to Minecraft.
In June 2019, he made a video playing Minecraft and it instantly blew up bringing it back as the popularity of the game. It became the most popular game anyone could talk about.
He in his Minecraft journey has made many collabs with his long time friend Jacksepticeye aka Green PewDiePie, Jack Black and many other personalities.
He has undergone a lot of scrutiny by haters saying that he is a racist Nazi which is absolutely not true and he is far from that. He played an important role in the downfall of YouTube Rewind 2018. His fans instantly disliked the video because he was not a part of it, well that and it was just horrible.
During the last one to two years he has gained around 40 million subscribers or more. In October 2018, he made a diss track on T-Series titled 'Bitch Lasagna' and it earned a lot of backlash from Indians saying it was demeaning but it was just done in fun.
The subscribe war was supposed to end in October 2018 with T-Series taking over as the most subscribed channel. But PewDiePie suddenly started growing at a much more faster rate.
In December 2018 when PewDiePie almost lost the top spot, his long friend Markiplier with whom he had made many collaborations came to his aid. He did a livestream urging all of his subscribers to subscribe to PewDiePie.
On 31st March, 2019, he officially lost the top spot to T-Series and then he uploaded another diss track titled 'Congratulations' in which he congratulates them as well diss them.
In the diss track he made fun of India for not having fixed the caste system and that T-Series has done a lot of shady stuff. Once the diss track was dropped he instantly got back the top spot and kept it for a few days.
After a few days we found out that they had filmed the song and music video for 'Congratulations' months back in November 2018.
In the song he had done a collaboration with Roomie and BoyInABand. The song tune was composed by PartyInBackyard who usually makes the tracks for PewDiePie's songs.
T-Series went to the Supreme Court of India and got both diss tracks banned in India. After that no one is India can access the songs unless they are using a VPN.
In August 2019, PewDiePie had the best week of his life. On 19 August, 2019 he married his long time girlfriend Marzia Kjellberg (née Bisognin) with whom he had been engaged since April 2018.
On 25 August, 2019 he became the first ever individual to hit 100 million subscribers on YouTube and in that very same week he killed the Ender Dragon in Minecraft and his sub Reddit reached 2 million members.
He received a special Red Diamond Plaque button from YouTube when he reached 100 million subscribers. The design has been criticized as it looked a lot like the diamond plaque button which is given when a person gets 10 million subscribers.
He has an estimated net worth of $30 million. He has a total of over 102 million subscribers on YouTube and over 23.9 billion views. He gets an average of at least a few million views for all his videos.
He has over 648K followers on DLive and livestreams as much as he can. In April 2019, he had announced that he partnered with DLive to stream there and the site was a start up at that time.
Since the time he announced that many personalities moved to DLive and the platform has earned a lot of traction. When he reached 100 million subscribers he promised that he would do a 24 hour livestream on DLive which he later fulfilled.
Conclusion
I hope all of you liked this list and I was able to let you know more about your favorite streamers/personalities. They have all played an important role in the upbringing of gaming and how it is right now and for that I thank them. They deserve everything they have right now and I'll see you all in my next post.
Which among these is your favorite?
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