How Much YouTube Has Paid Me for Half a Million Views
4 min readOct 16, 2021
Over 500,000 views and counting.
Two years ago, I decided to record myself reciting a poem that I wrote. I put a voicemail effect on it and posted it to YouTube. I didn’t think anything of it. I’d posted many spoken word recordings before on my channel. So, I just posted it and forgot about it.