Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
The young Roblox and Minecraft YouTuber posted a video Tuesday – or perhaps it's more apt to say his father Dave posted the video to explain why Might Mike Plays might be going dark for a while. In it, nine-year-old Mike explains “I think this might be the end,” before handing the mic to his dad. “My son has been running some high-budget campaigns on YouTube that I was pretty much unaware of,” Dave explained after taking the mic.
- ▪The young Roblox and Minecraft YouTuber posted a video Tuesday – or perhaps it's more apt to say his father Dave posted the video to explain why Might Mike Plays might be going dark for a while.
- ▪In it, nine-year-old Mike explains “I think this might be the end,” before handing the mic to his dad.
- ▪“My son has been running some high-budget campaigns on YouTube that I was pretty much unaware of,” Dave explained after taking the mic.
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