A 6-YEAR-OLD boy earned an incredible US$11 million in the past year, simply by reviewing toys on his hugely popular YouTube channel.

Ryan, whose last name and location within the United States haven’t been made public to protect his privacy, has gained a whopping 10 million subscribers on his channel, Ryan ToysReview, since he got his start on the platform two years ago.

The little boy has now come in eighth position in Forbes’ ranking of this year’s 10 highest-paid YouTubers across the world.

With US$11 million to his name, Ryan surpassed his fellow YouTube sensation Lilly Singh, who follows him closely with US$10.5 million worth of revenue.

Ryan also tied with the comedy channel Smosh, originally started by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, who stopped their partnership in June this year.

The boy, according to his mother, was once an avid watcher of toy reviews, especially ones that focused on Thomas The Tank Engine, before he asked to start his own channel.

“One day, he asked me, ‘How come I’m not on YouTube when all the other kids are?’ So we just decided — yeah, we can do that,” his mom said. “Then, we took him to the store to get his very first toy — I think it was a Lego train set — and it all started from there.”

The little boy’s most popular video, in which he unpacks a giant egg containing Pixar Cars toys, dates back to July 2015 and has gathered a staggering 801 million views.

A similar clip, which sees Ryan digging into a similar egg, this time filled with Transformer toys, has been watched 80,775,886 times since it was posted that same month.

Most of his viewers are children between the ages of 3 and 7, his father said last year. The majority of Ryan’s fans are located in the United States, but many also live in the United Kingdom and in the Philippines.

Ryan’s mother, a former high school chemistry teacher, has quit her job to work full-time on her son’s channel. Her husband works as a structural engineer.

The parents plan to continue filming until he gets tired of it.

“Right now, he loves making videos,” his mom said last year. “Every time I tell him we’re going to film, he gets so excited. As long as he’s loving it and it doesn’t disrupt his daily routine, we plan on continuing. But the moment he’s not having fun any more, that’s when it will be time to stop.”

(SD-Agencies)

(SD-Agencies)