Toronto Man Living the Dream: Six Figs Flexin' on YouTube 🤑🚶‍♂️

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Alright, listen up, fam! There's this dude in Toronto named Jonathan Hicks, but online he's known as Johnny Strides, and he's straight-up vibin' as a full-time YouTuber. His thing? Walkin' tours of the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). Like, he just strolls around with a camera, showin' off the city, and people are feelin' it.

We talkin' 136,000+ subscribers and over 46 million views on his channel. And here's the kicker: he's makin' "well over six figures" from this. Six. Figures. From walkin' around and filming. This is the dream, right?

He dipped out of his insurance job back in 2018 to chase this YouTube thing, and it paid off. Like, his YouTube money is wildin' out more than his old salary. But hold up, Toronto is NOT cheap. Our boy's gotta pay rent, and it's currently sittin' at $1,100 a month.

This is part of a bigger trend, tho. The article mentions a whole wave of people tryna make it with unconventional work. Unemployment is high for the youngins, and StatsCan (Statistics Canada) is sayin' most content creators are basically their own bosses.

But let's keep it 100, this ain't easy. Johnny's gotta film in all kinds of weather, and the pressure to drop new content all the time can lead to straight-up burnout. Plus, the algorithm is always changin', and trends come and go faster than your last relationship. Try keeping up with that. All that pressure to be real and relatable can have a flipside of burnout!

But hey, he digs the freedom and the community he's built. That's gotta count for somethin', right? Some professor from Toronto Met (Toronto Metropolitan University) also chimed in, sayin' this kind of work can be risky. I mean, duh. No cap.