Forbes magazine lists the 10 highest paid YouTube stars of 2016

PewDiePie, the world's highest earning Youtube star

See ehn, if anyone tells you that you are wasting your time on social media, just send the person the link to this story.

American business magazine Forbes has released their annual list of the highest-paid YouTube stars in 2016. This year’s list features a diverse lot. It consists of a rapper, a prankster, a nerdy baker and a couple of video gamers, all of whom made over $5 million last year.

Roman Atwood is second on the list with his earnings totalling $8million

Number one on the list is Swedish gamer Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg aka PewDiePie who made a whopping $15million (N4.7 billion official rate, N5.2 billion black-market rate) just from his videos of himself playing video games for his 50 million subscribers.