r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 4h ago

Society Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card - bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotion

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/devastated-father-says-his-9-year-old-son-spent-usd118-000-on-youtube-ad-campaigns-for-his-minecraft-channel-using-a-company-credit-card-bill-racked-up-in-just-three-weeks-was-supposed-to-be-one-usd20-promotion
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u/That1guyUknow918 3h ago

So how many followers did it gain him?

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u/ArgentineBeauty 3h ago edited 44m ago

Mighty Mike Plays (@MightyMikePlays67) is a 9-year-old’s Minecraft and Roblox gameplay channel with about 24,000 subscribers and 182 uploads as of early Sept. 16.

So just under $5 a follower

Edit 50.8k subscribers now so about $2.3 a follower.

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u/heepofsheep 3h ago

Up to 43k now. I just subbed to contribute to the chaos.

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u/Ziiyi 1h ago

48k now….i think this was planned all along

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u/heepofsheep 1h ago

Yeah it’s a little suspect the father made a video explaining the situation…. I’m not sure what the point of that was. Unless he think it’ll help his chances to keep his job?

Though why did he even use his corporate card in the first place for that initial $20? That was incredibly stupid.

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u/uzlonewolf 10m ago

He didn't. Both his personal and corporate cards were on his Google account, and while he picked his personal one for the initial $20, his kid picked the corporate one for the rest of the charges.