“I make more money living off part-time work lol ” Popular YouTuber who announced he has pancreatic cancer reveals his “no laughing matter” monthly earnings．
“Sunny Journey,” a travel-themed couple YouTuber duo consisting of wife Mizuki, who has announced that she has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and husband Kohei, revealed their monthly earnings in a video posted on October 2, 2024. ■”It’s to the point where I can’t live a normal life right now” Sunny Journey is a channel run by husband Kohei and wife Mizuki. In November 2022, while aiming to travel around Japan while sleeping in a light camper van, Mizuki announced that she had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.Since then, she has continued her treatment and outpatient visits while working as a YouTuber. This video is about revealing YouTube advertising revenue. Kohei said that “Sunny Journey” became known to many people after Mizuki was diagnosed with cancer, and the number of subscribers to the channel grew to over 200,000. However, he lamented that “the channel’s power has been gradually fading lately, to the point where I can’t even live a normal life.” He also revealed that his YouTube advertising revenue for August was 174,267 yen. Regarding this amount, Kohei said, “I’m a full-time YouTuber. “The two of us” and “We’d make more money living off part-time jobs (laughs),” he said, before dejected and saying, “Our situation is so miserable that we wonder if we’d make more money if each of us got a part-time job and worked eight hours a day, five days a week.” Even if revenue from the “channel membership” system, in which viewers pay a monthly fee and receive special benefits, is added in, “it would be better if each of us had a part-time job to live.” A few months ago, he considered going out of business, saying, “I couldn’t survive without (corporate) projects. This has been going on for several months,” and “we’re really in the red. I’m not kidding at all. It’s not even funny,” Kohei said. Although corporate projects are an important source of income for YouTubers, price negotiations are based on the number of views, so “the projects that come to us who don’t have many views are small,” he said, “But I’m still grateful for them. Even if you combine all of that, it doesn’t seem like you can make a living,” he explained. Furthermore, Kohei prefaced his remarks by saying, “This may be misleading,” and added, “Working as a salaryman is definitely easier mentally,” and “You get paid properly for the work you do.” He added a caption stating, “This does not mean that the work is easy,” and lamented, “Of course, in terms of the quality of the work, it depends on the individual which is more difficult, but in terms of the attitude towards work, the current situation is that we don’t know whether we will make any money no matter how much we work.” Kohei also said, “I really did tell Mizuki a few months ago that I wanted to quit (being a YouTuber).” Since the situation remained unclear as to whether they would be able to earn an income even if they worked, they had been leaning towards the idea that “wouldn’t it be better to just get a normal job?”, but after talking it through with the two of them, they decided to continue with their activities. The reason for this decision was that, in addition to the efforts they have made to build up so many subscribers, Kohei said he wanted to show his supportive viewers “a happy ending to our story on YouTube.”
If Mizuki gets better, it’s inevitable that the number of views will stop increasing. If she has no selling point other than her illness, she should quit being a YouTuber and get a job.
It’s not even funny, it’s just that she had pancreatic cancer before it was made public. She’s just living a lavish life thanks to donations and can’t lower her standard of living. If she hadn’t made mistakes in her initial response and the subsequent ones, she would still have fans, but her husband’s incompetence is the biggest problem with cancer.
Isn’t that a disrespectful thing to say to all part-time workers, company employees, and even YouTubers? You’re underestimating the value of receiving money in exchange for your work.
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