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JackSepticEye

Irishman Seán McLoughlin on list of top-earning Youtube stars for 2018

The gamer – who goes by the moniker JackSepticEye – was eighth on the Forbes list.

AN IRISH GAMER has featured on the Forbes list of top-earning Youtube stars for this year, with his estimated earnings at $16 million (€14 million).

Séan McLoughlin – who posts videos under the name JackSepticEye – has over 20 million subscribers to his Youtube channel. 

Successful Youtubers manage to generate income primarily through advertisements on their videos, and also through merchandise, sponsored posts and other means.

Athlone-native McLoughlin is 8th on Forbes’ list, which actually features a 7-year-old in first place.

It says of JackSepticEye: “Foulmouthed, energetic Seán McLoughlin is the most popular YouTuber in Ireland thanks to his colorful video-game commentary.

A few bad words haven’t kept him from going mainstream: He did a series for Disney and is developing exclusive content for live-streaming platform Twitch.

He featured on RTÉ 2 documentary Ireland’s Rich List last year, which said he was worth €2.5 million. 

McLoughlin posted his first video in 2012, and received a major boost in followers early on after a shoutout from fellow Youtuber PewDiePie (real name Felix Kjellberg).

The controversial Kjellberg is 9th on the Forbes list, who faced criticism in the past for using racial slurs.

Forbes said that all its figures are estimates, based on data from a number of sources as well as interviews with industry insiders. 

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    Mute colm connolly
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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:07 PM

    Top of the morning to him
    Fair play he works hard for it

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    Dec 5th 2018, 8:47 AM

    @colm connolly: He plays video games and kids who can’t afford them watch him play.. Not exactly going down a coal mine every morning..

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    Dec 5th 2018, 9:02 AM

    @Rob Cahill: Is that the only type of hard work then? His compensation is exaggerated because of the global platform, but that doesn’t make him unworthy of it. Typical Irish, jealous of someone else’s achievements…

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    Dec 5th 2018, 10:18 AM

    @Rob Cahill: he works about 14+ hours a day ,the guy is doing what he loves but if you ever followed him for a bit you would know how hard it is to have to get a video out almost every day
    Best of luck to him and fv<K the bergrudgers

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    Dec 7th 2018, 2:44 PM

    @Rob Cahill: not true, jealous much lol

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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:08 PM

    Good to see a young Irishman doing well for himself.

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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:20 PM

    What a world we live in. The top earner at $22m is a 7 year old boy who reviews toys for other kids. Amazing story.

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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:56 PM

    @Darach Malone: RTE really missed a trick with only having the toy show once a year, they’ve had the toy review format on for years, if they’d have figured out kids would happily watch that for hours on end maybe they wouldn’t be losing so much kid viewers to the likes of YouTube right now – it would be far cheaper to produce too vs an animated TV show.

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    Mute Earl of Daventry
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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:50 PM

    WHAT ABOUT THE HOMELESS JOE

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    Dec 5th 2018, 12:46 AM

    Well done to him. A bigger celebrity than Ryan Tubridy, Ray D’arcy and Joe Duffy put together but many in Ireland don’t realise it yet.

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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:07 PM

    I reckoned m if all the regular commenters here started a channel we could make it go viral and share out the €16m every year

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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:21 PM

    I need to quit my day job.

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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:50 PM

    @neuromancer: if you are in second class, it’s probably a good bet.

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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:40 PM

    Fair play to him. I’ve watched a few of his videos. It’s easy to see why he is so popular.

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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:42 PM

    All the way to victory town!

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    Mute Charles McCarthy
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    Dec 4th 2018, 11:18 PM

    Youtube is the medium of the future. On demand at your finger tips. The good ol boys just don’t know it yet.

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    Dec 5th 2018, 7:12 AM

    @Charles McCarthy: Article 13. Look it up

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    Dec 5th 2018, 2:00 AM

    Well done to him. I was first shown his YouTube videos by an American friend.
    Nice success story.

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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:31 PM

    Waiting for the haters with the ‘who?’ comments. . .

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    Mute Joe Phillips
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    Dec 4th 2018, 10:44 PM

    @Caitriona Smith: ya cold out there? D’ya wanna come and wait inside? Might be a while like

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    Dec 5th 2018, 6:01 AM

    YouTube is a fantastic resource for entertainment. Kids absolutely love watching these lads play games. I don’t get it thought, I’d happily put a bullet in Stampy though…. I shudder everytime I hear his high pitch voice Hiiiiiiiiii It’s Stampy…… Fair play to them though.

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    Dec 4th 2018, 11:17 PM

    Tiktok next biggest social media platform. Get in there early.

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    Dec 5th 2018, 6:38 AM

    @Matt Shallow: heard the same about Google+, that didn’t materialise as intended.

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    Dec 5th 2018, 6:21 AM

    There’s another guy Major Rushmore from Enniscorthy in County Wexford he’s very very funny and a tad crazy

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    Dec 5th 2018, 2:43 PM

    Fair play

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    Dec 5th 2018, 6:17 AM

    where did he get the name?

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    Dec 5th 2018, 7:36 AM

    @disaster-chef: he was on Tubridy last year – apparently he had an eye infection and a school friend referred to it as septic.

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    Dec 6th 2018, 12:18 AM

    Delighted for him and family He is a lovely lad.

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