“David After Dentist” Family Made 150K Off Of THIS Video???

by h8torade on Jun.30, 2010, under wtf, youtube

(BusinessInsider)Today, the DeVores are asking themselves that same question after raking in close to $150,000 since January 30, 2009 – when young David’s father, also named David, uploaded the video of his son onto YouTube.

“I’d say about $100,000 of that (is from YouTube),” the elder David DeVore tells us over the phone. “The rest is licensing and merchandise.”

The one seemingly minor decision to make the video available all over the Internet set off a whirlwind of changes for the DeVore family.

Within just four days, “David After Dentist” received 3 million views on YouTube and the younger David quickly became an Internet celebrity. His father quit his job in residential real estate (did we mention they live in Florida?), and the family started selling t-shirts featuring cartoon drawings of their son post-dental surgery.

That’s what it takes to make some money on the Internet? Have kids….take them to the dentist….drug them up…video tape and upload it to YouTube….then sit back and collect the check.

I’ve been doing it wrong all these fucking years….I’ve been blogging and running Google Adsense and I was sure that this would let me retire by the time I hit 35, but considering that I’ve only made $1.61 in the last week, it looks like I’ll be working for quite a while and eating ramen noodles for dinner.

Lucky bastards……