^ That statement IS entirely untrue. I have experience with YouTube and have a handful of friends who have done it professionally and gained a following. With Miranda especially, she looses out on a lot of revenue since Miranda does lots of covers and that collides with YouTube's music copyright law. YouTubers RARELY make the money people think they make UNLESS they're one of the top YouTubers, have young fans that will buy any merch or tours they put out there, or have huge endorsement deals. That's not to say they don't get a nice paycheck, but they're not making an entire year's Broadway salary with one video.
As for Miranda, I still think there's a lot of room to grow. The character has been around for quite some time but only really late 2014 to now has it shot up in subscriber count. Just late last year it was about to break 1mil subscribers and now it's at 3.4 AND she's selling out larger venues AND she did Comedians With Cars. Colleen has several other original characters she's going to introduce too, and she has a book coming out by "Miranda" so I think there's still a lot of potential and I wish her all the best.
Updated On: 2/26/15 at 12:24 PM