Veteran YouTuber PDSKabushikiGasha explains why he’s lost money on YouTube

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Before YouTubers exploded in Japan, the OG were the Pain brothers, former Johnny’s Jimusho talent Dante Pain (PDSKabushikiGaisha) and his older brother Duncan (PDRSan), Hajime, Mahoto, Masuo, Megwin and HIKAKIN.

Many of them managed to have stellar careers on YouTube, especially HIKAKIN who is one of the wealthiest and more successful YouTubers in Japan.

But there are some who complained that they are not making as much as before and in a video posted by Dante (PDSKabushikiGaisha), he explains why he is only making 1/20 of what he used to. Dante belongs to the YouTuber office UUUM and has been active since 2010 and has over 1.68 million subscribers.

Dante said that for him, “That’s not the case. It’s just that I’m not growing. I think people who are growing are earning a decent amount of money. I feel I’m at even, if I’m not growing”.

As for the reasons for the decrease in his own earnings, Dante said, “I simply got bored” and “I couldn’t follow YouTube’s algorithm .” “In short, I’ve put too much effort into short videos.”

PDSKabushikiGaisha was popular when Dante was in school and pulling pranks on his family and doing crazy things, which he hasn’t really done much as he got older. His videos at the time were consistently earning over 2 million views, some even going over 5 million views but these days, he tends to get under 50,000 views.