Multi-Millionaire Gaming Streamer Turns Off Paid Subscriptions After Revealing How Much He’s Made

In 2024, 50 of the top creators — as named by Forbes — earned almost $720 million over the last 12 months.

Topping that list, of course, is MrBeast, who has claimed he has less than a million dollars in the bank and isn’t as rich as people think he is (boo-hoo). But while he feigns poverty, one gaming YouTuber is pulling up his earning analytics and turning off paid subscriptions.

MoistCr1TiKaL, whose real name is Charles White Jr., posted an initial video titled “I’m Turning it Off,” where he says why he doesn’t want to accept donations.

White announced the decision to stop receiving money from features such as super chats, memberships, and Twitch subscriptions on October 9.

“He’s already rich”

“You should have done this from the beginning!”

The entire point of donating to a streamer is so they can afford more time to make content which he doesn’t need anymore.

Why are we criticizing a streamer for having some self awareness? I’d like more of this

— Cole🧊 (@ColeCxle) October 10, 2025

“I had convinced myself I could deliver something of value to people that were paying. And I just don’t think there’s any value in giving money during a stream to get my attention so that way I talk about it for a second,” he said. “That’s just not a good use of your money. I also don’t think I was giving anything of value to like members with, you know, members content or anything.”

While White was able to turn off paid YouTube subscriptions and fans paying for their chats to be highlighted on stream, he’s not able to do so on Twitch – so he raised the minimum donation high enough in hopes of discouraging fans from shelling out their cash.

He said his motivation was to prevent viewers from “wasting” their money on him and instead encouraged them to save it for themselves, “now more than ever with how everything’s been going,” or donate to charity if they wanted to contribute financially.

He followed it up a week later with “I’m Not Turning it Back On,” doubling down on his actions and pulling up his analytics to show just how much he made.

“From 2017 to 2019 I made $55,500. It was just a bit of goofing around, having some fun,” White said, a graphic of his analytics on screen.

However, from 2019 to 2021, you can see the physical spike in the line chart showing where wealth began to grow, earning up to $1.3 million in three years.

Then, from 2021 to 2024, White made nearly $4.2 million not including the cash he made from sponsorships or brand deals.

Moistcr1tikal shared his historic Twitch + YouTube earnings.

🟣 TWITCH EARNINGS
2017 + 2018 – $55,000
2019 + 2020 – $1,285,000
2021 to 2024 – $4,158,000

🔴 YOUTUBE EARNINGS
2007 to Today – $35,870,000 pic.twitter.com/dhS96pYABJ

— Zach Bussey 🇨🇦 (@zachbussey) October 15, 2025

“Compare that to a normal person actually working their ass off every single day in a 9-5, grinding in hopes of chasing the American dream, and they come home, maybe turn on my stream and donate a couple dollars to me. It doesn’t sit right with me, taking that kind of money, given what I’ve made from all of this,” White said, “(…) There is no reason I should be taking money from just normal people working normal everyday jobs. It just doesn’t feel right to me.”

And that was just on Twitch, White noted.

From 2007 until now, White said he has made $35.8 million on YouTube alone.

Some streamers are urging creators to block fans who donate large sums of money — but not out of the kindness of their hearts. Well, not in the same way at least: the push comes after Korean TikToker Yoon-Ji Ah was murdered by a viewer who sent her around $70,000.

That, however, also had to do with the suspect leading a double life, pretending to be wealthy, and seeming to have some sort of parasocial relationship with the creator, who has 300,000 followers on TikTok.

Watch the “I’m Turning it Off” Video on YouTube:

White said he’s gotten some backlash from streamers for “setting a precedent” in turning off monetization, but he’s not trying to lead a revolution.

The content creator, who has over 17 million YouTube subscribers, also said that for the first four to five years he earned money through the platform, he donated “every single dollar” to charity.

This, along with paying employees and other expenses, means that while he’s made a combined $41 million through content-creating, he doesn’t actually have that much – much like what MrBeast is attempting to infer, except with a lot more humility and honesty.

I remember in the early days of his YT channel, he used to donate all profits to charity. There came a point where he was struggling financially and made a video apologising for the fact that he had to start keeping some of the money for himself. He’s a stand-up guy.

— Chimp (@SuaveChimp) October 10, 2025

“I don’t have nearly that much,” White said of the millions he’s earned. “But I still have more money than I will ever know what to fully do with.”

The influencer industry is expected to be nearly $500 billion by 2027, according to Goldman Sachs.

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