YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
To me this little news snippet had just hit home how much of a bubble I live in, and how we&#x27;re diverging into multiple streams of media for different cultures and classes.<p>These million dollar media businesses exist that I have no idea about and no exposure to.  Presumably when my child reaches approx 8, he&#x27;ll have been brought up without ads and with most of this content having been blocked (or more accurately, just never coming into the house&#x2F;houses of his friends, blocking, even though that&#x27;s what it is we&#x27;re doing is almost too &#x27;active&#x27; a word).  And there will be a whole sub-class of the population brought up on this stuff that we never mix with.<p>Or maybe I&#x27;m naive and these media will get in past our defences, but judging by how current media bubbles work it&#x27;s a distinct possibility that it will remain a bubble I&#x27;m never exposed to (I.e I know pay TV options and certain newspapers&#x2F;you tube things exist, but struggle to tell you a single person I know under the age of 50 who subscribes).<p>I can&#x27;t be the only one who feels a little sick at the prospect of making money heaping consumerism on children...?