I'm not someone who spends a lot of time on YouTube, but recently a spicy controversy that has to do with how influencers make money had me on a call with a YouTuber.

I'm a YouTube creator. I go by the name Yubb. I'm based in Texas. Hello y'all. And I make gaming videos

very immature style, like the kind your kids probably watch on the iPad. That's so annoying.

That's me. That's what I do. And you probably get asked this a ton. Why Yub? It was just the shortest

URL I could find that was short, but you could still say it as a word out loud.

And it's not your real name, obviously.

No, no. My real name is Dylan. That would be crazy if my mom named me Yubb.

Dylan Russell, aka Yub, has about 1.6 million subscribers on his channel,

and he's been making a living entirely off YouTube for years. Most of his income comes from

ad breaks in his videos. That's where I make probably 95% of my income. My eggs are definitely

all in that basket. And then I have a small portion

that comes from merch sales. I have like little silly Yubb t-shirts and stuff and hats.

Another common way that Yub and other YouTube creators get paid is through sponsorships,

basically promoting products in their videos. One company that sponsored Yub was a service called Honey.

In fact, Honey paid a lot of YouTubers to promote it.

Do you have Honey installed?

What's Honey?

Oh, no, no, no.

Honey is the free-to-use browser extension that helps you find the best promo codes at over 3,000 sites. And automatically test them while checking out during your online shopping.

It is literally free money. You don't do anything extra.

It's free. It's completely free. And it takes just two clicks to install.

Honey is owned by PayPal, the online payments company. And Honey's main thing is discount codes and coupons.

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