Highest-Paid Female YouTuber of 2021 Is 7 Years Old
Most kids are lucky to collect a few dollars a week for doing chores. Meanwhile, 7-year-old YouTuber Anastasia Radzinskaya, or "Nastya" to viewers, raked in $28 million last year for making videos about decorating Halloween cupcakes and learning to tell time.
When Radzinskaya was born with cerebral palsy, doctors feared she would never be able to speak. To document her development, her parents shared videos on YouTube for friends and family. Quickly winning the hearts of followers around the world, Anastasia hit big with a 2018 trip to the petting zoo with dad Yuri, set to earworm "Baby Shark."
A year later, "Nastya" boasted 107 million subscribers across seven channels, and debuted at number three on the Forbes Top-Earning YouTube Stars 2019 ranking, which tallies pretax income collected from advertisements, sponsored content, merchandise sales, tours, etc.
The now 7-year-old has held tight in Forbes' ratings, dropping to number seven in 2020, then rising one spot to number six this year. As reported by the business magazine, Nastya last year sold the rights to her old YouTube videos to Spotter for cash upfront (while retaining rights to new content). She also introduced a merchandise line and NFT collection.
Not only is Radzinskaya the highest-paid female YouTuber on the list—she's the only female YouTuber on the list. Filling out Forbes' catalog of top-earning creators of 2021 are MrBeast ($54 million), Jake Paul ($45 million), Markiplier ($38 million), Rhett and Link ($30 million), Unspeakable ($28.5 million), Ryan Kaji ($27 million), Dude Perfect ($20 million), Logan Paul ($18 million), and Preston Arsement ($16 million).
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