highest paid creators 2026

Fifty people earned 1.02 billion dollars posting content online in twelve
months. MrBeast took 300 million of it, roughly 4.6 times more than second
place. The most important detail is that almost none of that money came
from platform ad revenue. Here is where creator earnings actually
concentrate, how it compares to the 22 celebrity billionaires Forbes
ranked this year, and what any of it means for creators in Pakistan and India.