Jake Paul explains why he\u2019s done with YouTube Jake Paul\/InstagramYouTube star Jake Paul said he doesn\u2019t think the platform pays enough, and confirmed he\u2019ll be stopping his popular vlogs on the site in a new interview. Paul has been branching out of just content creation lately, notably to boxing and a burgeoning musical career, which he says is much more worthwhile than simply making videos. While out to drinks with ex \u201cwife\u201d Tana Mongeau and some other friends, Jake definitely made it seem like he\u2019s reconsidering his relationship with the site that\u2019s, arguably, had a good deal to do with bringing him into the mainstream. In response to his music career taking off, Jake called YouTube a \u201cdead-end\u201d and assured fans that he\u2019ll be just fine financially without focusing on videos as much. \u201cYeah, I don\u2019t f**k with that YouTube s**t, it\u2019s a dead-end,\u201d Paul told The Hollywood Fix outside a bar. \u201cThey don\u2019t pay s**t, f**k you YouTube. Nah, I make my money in other ways, I\u2019m the owner of Fanjoy.\u201d Fanjoy is a merchandise company that partners with various content creators such as David Dobrik, Addison Rae, and more. Chris Vaccarino is listed as the founder and CEO, and while Jake\u2019s full involvement isn\u2019t known, he certainly makes a kickback from any of his merch that\u2019s sold on the site. Business dealings aside, a split with the video-sharing site wouldn\u2019t be the first time Paul has had to potentially switch platforms. After getting his start on Vine, he had completely moved to YouTube by the time the app closed down in 2016. There\u2019s one other thing that, while Jake didn\u2019t touch on it in the interview, could have something to do with him cutting down on YouTube content. That is the infamous FBI search warrant of his home on August 5. While he has clarified that the raid was \u201centirely related\u201d to his appearance at a looting in Scottsdale, Arizona in May, it\u2019s understandable why he would want to take a step back from the camera for a while, at least, the ones documenting his daily life for everyone to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul explains why he\u2019s done with YouTube Jake Paul\/InstagramYouTube star Jake Paul said he doesn\u2019t think the platform pays enough, and confirmed he\u2019ll be stopping his popular vlogs on the site in a new interview. Paul has been branching out of just content creation lately, notably to boxing and a burgeoning musical career, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}