I've seen some people bringing up a tired ass argument about 'youtubers not really making that much money qq' so here is a link to AngryJoe's SocialBlade http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/angryjoeshow
Assume he makes the low end value, add 5k/yr for a total of 53k because its probably a little bit more than that bottom figure. This site doesn't even take Twitch revenue, sponsorship's, or other common methods like donations into account.
The way the Nintendo's partner program works is Nintendo gets a cut of your end revenue, after youtube and your MCN(Multi-Channel Network) take their cut. So lets say he registers JUST his Nintendo videos videos only and its all of 10% of his content. Nintendo will take a 40% cut on ad revenue for 10% of his videos, 10% of 53000 is 5300. 40% of 5300 is 2120, meaning that after all is said and done he will still make 50,880(which still doesn't include the other revenue options I mentioned before.)
Dunno about you, but if I were doing something I loved and were in a pretty decent financial situation because of that something... a 2k paycut might suck, but wouldn't really be that big of a deal.
“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.” - Neil Gaiman
