No one went broke underestimating the public ...

I recently came across the phenomenon of YouTubers, who do what I consider stupid and harmful stuff yet apparently make millions ...

Citing his “recent pattern of behavior,” the Google-owned platform announced this morning that it had “temporarily suspended” ads on Paul’s channels — stopping an income stream estimated to be worth more than a million dollars a month ...
According to YouTube, this behavior includes a number of different incidents. Most notably, the YouTuber caused international controversy when he filmed a suicide victim in Japan’s Aokigahara forest at the beginning of the year ... [H]is infractions [also] include trying to monetize a video that violates the company’s advertiser-friendly guidelines, encouraging his followers to do the Tide Pod challenge, and, in one recent video, taking a fish out of his pond to jokingly give it CPRand then tasering a dead rat.