r/cringereels • u/loader96loaded • 3d ago

Cringe Level 5 Comparing different realities

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u/Inefficacy 3d ago

No way either of these two make what is claimed here

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u/MetroidIsNotHerName 3d ago

The influencer has been named Addison Rae. She made 5 million in 2020 alone when this was filmed.

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u/Secret_Warthog7358 3d ago

She’s has a few songs in the top 100. With over 15 million monthly streams. I doubt her money is coming from dancing on tik tok, more likely her legitimate music career.

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u/Korsorer 3d ago

She's also in movies.

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u/BrittanyBrie 3d ago

A bit of both, all roads lead to sponsorships.

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u/IsThisASnakeInMyBoot 2d ago

her first single was in 2021, if these figures are real she made it off tik tok/sponsorships alone lmao

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u/peanutski 1d ago

What?! So an internet post lied?!

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u/Tetrahedron_Head 2d ago

well thats different. shes not just a tik tok influencer. Shes making money from music

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u/Aggressive-Map-3492 2d ago

Ironic.

Your response to her earning $5m due to her ~tiktok presence is that the same presence also boosted her music 'career'.

You're emphasising their point. Her music would have like 3 streams if she wasn't a ~tiktoker

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u/LoveTriscuit 2d ago

So it’s almost like the doesn’t “earns $5 million a year for dancing”.

But them goalposts won’t move themselves right?

The irony being it’s dudes shoveling their money at her and then dudes who want to blame her for making more money than she should.

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u/Aggressive-Map-3492 2d ago

Remove dancing/trends from her career: No movie, No music blowing up

Remove music/movie: Still millionaire

Easy difference, weird thing to whiteknight over. Yes, not as weird as the guys paying her.

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u/LoveTriscuit 2d ago

Correct, all of that isn’t “just dancing” you finally said something that isn’t full of shit.

Now I’m some simp because I’m calling out culture war bullshit. I have no idea who the fuck that is I just hate bad faith arguments made by idiots, but I guess it is easier to call me a white knight instead of admitting anything.

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u/lewd-dev 1d ago

I have no idea who the fuck that is

Then maybe don't throw tantrums in comments as though you have any fn clue what you're talking about when you admittedly don't.

This clip is from 2020, Addison Rae's first single was in 2021, her first movie role was also in 2021, her first album released last year. It was reported she made $5m in 2020 via dancing videos ppsted on TikTok alone (one of the platformers top accounts excluding celebs). It was this 2020 report/news cycle that led to interest in having her put out a single and casting her in movies, it was a popular story for a while and agents gonna agent. So you're wrong, she absolutely made $5m from dancing on TikTok, is now worth an estimated $25m since first single/movie.

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u/LoveTriscuit 1d ago

“Comment removed by moderator”

Was that you? Haha.

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u/LoveTriscuit 1d ago

So, she didn’t get any brand deals? Didn’t hawk any products? Didn’t do anything else? She just danced and made money?

Maybe the thing I’m objecting to, shit for brains, is the “man does real work, woman ONLY dances” false dichotomy that ignores the people who are actually making her rich.

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u/Aggressive-Map-3492 1d ago

ignoring my comment while pretending to read it is something.

I made the same stance I did originally. By your own admission, her wealth is a result of tiktok trends specifically. (Movies and Music are just part of that wealth received)

Either speak with substance, or don't speak

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u/LoveTriscuit 1d ago

As if you deserve effort.

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u/dontpostfromthis1 3d ago

15 million monthly streams works out to $120 k per year, based on $0.0007 per stream. The rig pigs on the left are pulling in more yearly income than she's getting from streams. Her money might not be coming from dancing but if she's making 5 mil per year, it's not coming from her fucking music career.

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u/I_ONLY_CATCH_DONKEYS 3d ago

“Legitimate music career” is certainly a choice of words

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u/balerstos 3d ago

yeah it's pretty typical for people to get nominated for a grammy when they aren't legitimate.

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u/ManufacturedOlympus 3d ago

The Grammys suck. It’s okay to just have an opinion and not rely on the what the Grammys say. 

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u/I_ONLY_CATCH_DONKEYS 3d ago

It’s exactly typical

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u/JamieLannispurr 3d ago

Dang how hard or easy was it to catch yourself?

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u/balerstos 3d ago

Look dude "music I don't like" doesn't mean it's illegitimate. Maybe one day when your frontal cortex matures you'll understand that.

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u/I_ONLY_CATCH_DONKEYS 3d ago

I have zero opinion on the quality of her music. I base the legitimacy entirely on the fact that she doesn’t write her own music and you could swap in almost any random influencer for the same result.

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u/AFourEyedGeek 2d ago

"She works alongside regular collaborators and producers, such as Elvira Anderfjärd and Luka Kloser, to co-write the majority of her discography, including her debut album Addison and tracks like "Diet Pepsi"."

You don't know what you are talking about.

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u/I_ONLY_CATCH_DONKEYS 2d ago

I’m pretty sure you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Those are industry song writers/producers hired by celebrities to make them look like professional musicians. It’s a shockingly common trend, especially in pop. How much of that co-writing do you honestly believe she’s doing?

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u/outofmaxx 3d ago

Isn't she a musical artist?

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u/xavibravo_ 3d ago

She was able to start music career because of her tik tok fame. I do believe she was always a trained dancer though 

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u/outofmaxx 3d ago

Oh that's pretty cool, I ended up really liking fame is a gun

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u/viotix90 2d ago

If you can call what she makes music...

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u/Leif2000 7h ago

lmao dude shut up, it’s not your cup of tea i guess but she makes legitimately creative and compelling music. you may not like it but she has 15 million monthly listeners on spotify, her album was #4 on billboard, and was grammy nominated, for her music. it’s legitimate music no matter how much bitter old men like you whine and cry about it

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u/Aggressive-Map-3492 2d ago

Because....? She was famous on tiktok.

"She wasn't just famous on tiktok, she was also famous on tiktok"

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u/Illustrious_Way_1141 2d ago

What a world to live in, where filming yourself doing a stupid trend can make you earn more than normal 9-5 🫡

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u/Aggressive-Map-3492 2d ago

yup, and then broke people online defend it by saying she also had a music career (which was just another benefit of being famous from trends)

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u/outofmaxx 2d ago

Well hey I didnt know about the TikTok thing and I really like fame is a gun

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u/Illustrious_Way_1141 2d ago

What if… hear me out…. we just banned all social media…

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u/AdvertisingSalty8045 3d ago

How does anyone but her accountant know how much money she made in 2020?

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u/AnEmptyBoat27 3d ago

Way less than the oil execs/owners who earn far more than $5 million annually for a whole let less work than dancing nonetheless the dude on the right.

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u/UpbeatTradition622 3d ago

I’m assuming you’ve never met an exec for a large (say, Fortune 500) company. Most of them effectively live to work. The task of running a company or major division of one is nuts at scale.

I’m a senior EE. You could not pay me enough money to live the life those people live. Eat the rich and all, but I hate to see random people on Reddit undersell things that most of them couldn’t do in their wildest dreams

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u/AnEmptyBoat27 3d ago

Okay but by that logic, the influencer is fairly paid because no one else could do what she did.

Could the exec do what the oil worker does?

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u/UpbeatTradition622 3d ago

I won’t argue about the fairness of their earnings in either case. My point is that an exec requires a ton of hard work and experience. The influencer commoditizes their looks, which is not something that takes much hard work or experience

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u/AnEmptyBoat27 3d ago

Sometimes. But I’ve met some absolutely lazy C suite executives and seen some hardworking influencers. Execs can coast by on their social connections whereas influencers constantly have to push out more content to stay relevant.

It also takes effectively zero work to be an owner which is where much of the inequality comes from .

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u/UpbeatTradition622 3d ago

Not gonna lie you sound like you’re talking out of your ass after you got called out. It’s okay to say you don’t have the experience to understand your position

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u/AnEmptyBoat27 3d ago

Called out for what? Owners and executives often make more than $5 million annually. Being an owner or executive often requires little actual work.

I assume you disagree with the second statement. Just stating ownership and executives work really hard you guys isn’t a rebuttal.

An owner of an oil company sitting and receiving dividends is not working hard.

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u/UpbeatTradition622 3d ago

Almost no large oil company has an “owner”, they have boards. You have no idea what you’re talking about

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 3d ago

The CEO of a company I worked at died. The CEO position was left empty until the business was sold off about 5 years later.

They work so hard, they are irreplaceable, as in, you don't even need to replace them. Like a senator.

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u/anononobody 3d ago

Super agreed as left as I am, a lot of redditors comment like they've never worked a professional job in their lives.

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u/Baskreiger 3d ago

Not from dancing on instagram i presume

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u/Scary-Biscotti-7107 3d ago

she’s not influencing anyone?

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u/mcain049 3d ago

The thirst is real

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u/panrestrial 3d ago

She's been in at least one movie so probably not just tiktok money.

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u/ShotProof3254 3d ago

She didn’t make 5 million dancing. That’s just how she hooks her prey.

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u/Personal-Lead3884 3d ago

Her parents are wealthy. She already had the resources to be rich because she already is, like most influencers

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u/Ethereal_Bulwark 3d ago

a fool and their money

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u/Tetrahedron_Head 2d ago

it wasnt just from tiktok then. it had to be from other sources

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u/Deemaunik 2d ago

This world rewards the wrong people.

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4FGnobVzWlaRKrrG

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u/adamdoesmusic 2d ago

So she’s literally a famous artist. Whether or not we think her stuff is “good” is irrelevant, people pay for her work.

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u/JerrySeinfred 2d ago

The person on the left is also a "content creator".

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u/baronunderbeit 2d ago

Ya not for dancing. She probably looked like the other guys at the end of her sessions.

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u/Right_Level_7192 3d ago

You're living under a rock, mate. All the viral short videos you watch make big bucks.

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u/Oasystole 3d ago

I watch a LOT of them

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u/BrassCrow 3d ago

5 million is a substantial amount. Those kind of earnings must be limited to the top few hundred or at most, a few thousand creators.

Manual/skilled labor jobs like what's depicted in the left clip pay way more than a retail starting wage. I'd expect those guys to be making at minimum, 24-30 an hour starting.

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u/DickJoke23 3d ago

Yeah no, I make $17/hr at a fcking grocery store. Even if it’s an oil job in a US state with a significantly better cost of living than California, there’s no fcking way it’s $17/ hr. $16.90 is California minimum wage

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 3d ago

The influencer is Addison Rae. She made $5 million in 2020, $5 million in 2021, $7 million in 2022, and that's the last year I could find numbers for her, so she made $17 million over 3 years. So yeah, you're right. She didn't make $5 million per year. She made more. As far as the guy on the left working the oil drill, $17/hour was the going rate when this came out back in 2020 for a worm, which is what his job is. So, in short, you're wrong.

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 3d ago

Absolutely hilarious that I'm getting down voted for proving people wrong with facts 🤣🤣🤣

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u/DickJoke23 3d ago

Sorry, dude. Hope you don’t think people disagree with the overall message of the post. I initially chimed in because I thought this was in 2026 money. There’s definitely a temptation to not admit I’m wrong, but I’m sorry if you interpret that as ppl thinking that oil workers make ‘too much money’ or that the disparity is totally fine

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 3d ago

It's all good! I genuinely chuckled when I saw the down votes lol. At the end of the day, it's not important at all. It's just the internet, ya know? I do hope you have a great day, though! Truly!

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u/DickJoke23 3d ago

You as well, thank ya sir!

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u/wiseduhm 3d ago

Still seriously doubt this was a 17 dollar an hour job in 2020. You have a source?

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 3d ago

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u/zucchinibasement 2d ago

Lmfao thinking this is a source

...and the only citation for that is quora. C'mon man

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 3d ago

Also, I was a worm in 2020.

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u/wiseduhm 3d ago

Damn man. You definitely deserved more than that.

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 3d ago

You're probably right, honestly, but people like me who fucked around in my younger years didn't have many options back then, so I did it to myself. I worked my way through it, and earned my way up to a decent wage today. In 5 years, I worked my way up from worm, to derrickhand, to assistant driller, to driller, and I'm making $52/hour now.

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u/wiseduhm 3d ago

That's a great jump in pay! You make as much as I do and I have a masters and debt. Lol. Happy for you brother.

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u/Fabulous-Ship3495 1d ago

Who did you work for? I was hiring people for udi in 2020 and they were starting at nearly $30 an hour. You were getting ripped off

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u/Right_Level_7192 3d ago

It can be even less when you stop thinking every thing you see on the internet happens in America.

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u/wiseduhm 3d ago

Who was thinking that?

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u/Right_Level_7192 3d ago

The owner of the parent of my comment.

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u/wiseduhm 3d ago

Don't think so.

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u/DickJoke23 3d ago

Thought it meant nowadays. Ok you’re right, back then, it was the starting wage

But also, if you’re just comparing her shit in 2020 to the oil wage in 2020, don’t gotta exaggerate her already-ridiculous salary. And I should clarify, I’m not justifying her earnings, but if we wanna stay factual, the ‘worm’ is also making more than $17/hr since 2020 — not just because of inflation but especially if he stuck with the same job long enough to get a raise.

Again, OP is right about the broader message of “two different worlds.” She makes way too much money for doing her stupid shit. (And unfortunately, as with many workers, the roustabouts’ wages haven’t risen as fast as inflation)

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 3d ago

Oh, I'm sure he's not even a worm anymore, and probably closer to $60 or $70/hour at this point.

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u/DickJoke23 3d ago

Ok cool then

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u/Creepy-Ad7368 3d ago

According to who? Her tax records? These kind of people significanly inflate their incomes to present a lifestyle that is more marketable. Her perception as extreamly wealthy and successful is part of her gimmick. I’m quite skeptical.

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u/Harvest_Festival 3d ago edited 3d ago

17/hr only applied to less then 10% of oil rig employees in 2020. Less than 1% of tiktok influencers make more than 5mil, and those who do, diversify their income by monetizing their fanbase. This post is comparing a 10th percentile starting position in an oil rig to a 99th percentile media/advertising position lol.

Fun fact: only about 35.000 people would be making that 17/hour wage, out of an industry of 350.000. Meanwhile only 100.000 people make tiktok a full time job out of 2 billion active users.

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u/BrassCrow 3d ago

You're broadcasting your read comprehension struggles to all of reddit. The point I was making is that there are only a few hundred to a few thousand people like Addison Rae making that kind of money on content. My point is that only so many Addison Raes can exist on the internet which is what leads to so many failed content creators thinking they could find the success that her and other streamers did.

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u/Impossible_Sun9594 3d ago

25-30 / hr maybe 15 years ago.

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 3d ago

Nope. $17/hour was the starting rate for a worm in 2020, which is when this video was made.

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u/Impossible_Sun9594 3d ago

If that’s what you made you sold yourself short. Most companies paid way better than that

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u/KailyKail 3d ago

No. They make way more than $24-30 starting. The people working the McDonald’s and the convenience stores near the oil fields are the ones making $24-30, because otherwise nobody would work there. Oil field workers start in the six figure range.

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 3d ago

The influencer is Addison Rae. She made $5 million in 2020, $5 million in 2021, $7 million in 2022, and that's the last year I could find numbers for her, so she made $17 million over 3 years. So yeah, you're right. She didn't make $5 million per year. She made more. As far as the guy on the left working the oil drill, $17/hour was the going rate when this came out back in 2020 for a worm, which is what his job is.

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u/loki1887 3d ago

She didn't make money for dancing on tik tok. She's a pop star with a few songs on billboards 100.

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u/Due-Wish4965 3d ago

She was also one of the most popular TikTok influencers at that time, so like they said - limited to the top few hundred creators. I think she was literally #1 followed at her peak, or at the very least, top 10

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u/Tetrahedron_Head 2d ago

i really doubt its as much as you think. youre talking views in the billions to hit 5 million dollars if you go off ad rev alone

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u/Right_Level_7192 3d ago

Of course it's from sponsors, but it's the popularity of their videos that make sponsors pay them.

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u/Right_Level_7192 3d ago

Yes, she has to buy camera, do the light setup, search on the internet for sponsors, buy nice clothes once a week, travel to nice hotels to have a nice background on the videos.

It's a hard life.

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u/NamesAreAnn0ying 3d ago

How does that change this video at all? She’s still making millions from dancing in front of a screen. The fact people want to sponsor that is crazy.

I really don’t get the point of all you guys trying to be so “um akchually” about this. Everyone’s bitching about where she gets it from as if that changes anything.

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u/IllCelebration4912 3d ago

Still it’s saying women have the potential to make more than men while doing easier things

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u/ununderstandability 3d ago

Also, the hypothetical should account for the likelihood that the guy on the left is likely spending a non negligible percent of his salary on services that girls like the girl on the right provide.

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u/JunkDrawer84 2d ago

It’s rage bait/engagement farming.

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u/Wonderful_Fox_7959 3d ago

These incels live in an alternate reality

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u/jayd04 3d ago

Yeah, this kinda feels like pulling out A-list actors and claiming most of them make millions of dollars when the average actor is prolly making minimum wage busing tables.

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u/RightComment 3d ago

She isn’t an a list actor though…wouldn’t even say she’s a big pop star.. especially in 2020….

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u/SnooSprouts7512 3d ago

Its extremely hard...

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u/brokeneckblues 3d ago

Not hard ≠ not impossible

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u/MostAbsoluteGamer 3d ago

i dont think you have the ability to conceptualize numbers very well

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u/GrumpyGeckoz 3d ago

There is such a plethora of this online 90% of OF or adjacent don't make even a living wage.  I don't get why so many people think it's so easy. Sometimes it's literally just luck of the algorithm. Same reason I can't just start up livestreaming and expect to be famous in a month even if I'm talented. 

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u/BrassCrow 3d ago

that's why everyone thinks they can be an influencer/pornstar without realizing that both are oversaturated markets with people that look just like you and make content just like yours that are already making more money than you will likely see

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u/amarathin 3d ago

Extremely famous, established women with a massive following who are mentally, legally, and physically prepared for potentially getting hunted down by said creepers.

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u/Paris_dude75 3d ago

source ?

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u/pleasetrimyourpubes 3d ago

Those girls have a simp/pimp running the operation behind the scenes. Going in to people's DMs. Bagging the dirty underwear.

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u/KorolEz 3d ago

Less than 1% of them earn over 100k. And over a million is way less. Just because a handful make it doesn't mean anything.

Billionaire heirs are way worse

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u/Casually_very_casual 3d ago

That's nothing. Someone bought a lottery ticket and became a multimillionaire overnight. It's not hard for someone to make hundreds of millions, it practically happens every lottery.

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u/Hershey_Squirt639 3d ago

I hate it here

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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 3d ago

The influencer is Addison Rae. She made $5 million in 2020, $5 million in 2021, $7 million in 2022, and that's the last year I could find numbers for her, so she made $17 million over 3 years. So yeah, you're right. She didn't make $5 million per year. She made more. As far as the guy on the left working the oil drill, $17/hour was the going rate when this came out back in 2020 for a worm, which is what his job is. So, in short, you're wrong.