Rhett McLaughlin Net Worth 2024

What is Rhett McLaughlin’s net worth?

Rhett McLaughlin is an American YouTube character, comedian, and actor who has a net worth of $20 million. He is finest recognized for being a founding father of the YouTube partnership Rhett and Link. Along with Link Neal the duo hosts quite a few YouTube exhibits, most notably Good Mythical Morning. They are among the many most-popular and highest-paid YouTubers in the world. In 2020 alone they earned a mixed $20 million. Their enterprise, Mythical Entertainment Co., employs 100 folks. They function a fan membership the place followers pay $10-20 monthly to entry unique content material.

Early Life

Rhett McLaughlin was born in Macon, Georgia in October 1977. He met Link Neal, his collaborator on the Rhett & Link YouTube channel, on the primary day of first grade at Buies Creek Elementary School in 1984. His family had only in the near past moved to Buies Creek, North Carolina from Macon, Georgia. Many years later, they wrote a tune and made a documentary about their assembly known as “Looking for Ms. Locklear.” The two boys have been required to remain in throughout recess as a punishment as a result of each of them had written swear phrases on their desks. They bonded over this and drew legendary creatures corresponding to unicorns, therefore the identify of their YouTube present “Good Mythical Morning.”

When Rhett and Link have been 14, they wrote a screenplay known as “Gutless Wonders” and began making a movie based mostly on it. They solely shot a few scenes and by no means completed the movie. The screenplay was learn, years later, throughout quite a few episodes of “Good Mythical Morning.” In highschool, Rhett and Link shot a 25-minute parody of the story of Oedipus Rex. Rhett was Oedipus, and Link was his father’s servant. Also in highschool, the chums have been members of a punk rock band known as The Wax Paper Dogz.

Rhett holds the report at his outdated highschool for many 3-pointers scored in a single basketball season, 77, at Harnett Central High School to at the present time.

Rhett began college at North Carolina State University in 1996. Link was his roommate in college. Rhett studied civil engineering and graduated magna cum laude in December 2000. Rhett labored at Black & Veatch for some time after college earlier than quitting to pursue their YouTube channel full time.

YouTube Career

Not lengthy after graduating from college, Rhett and Link stop their jobs as engineers to give attention to their YouTube channel. Today,  at 42 and 41 respectively, this comedy duo are the OG YouTube stars. They host the favored every day present Good Mythical Morning, on which they eat issues like Cheetos flavored Pop-Tarts. They have 4 channels, a podcast, and two books.

Their first viral video was “Wolfpack or Tarheels?” uploaded on Rhett’s private YouTube channel in 2006 (not energetic) of his 3-year-old son Locke McLaughlin crying over the lack of the NC State Wolfpack and their rivalry with the North Carolina Tar Heels. YouTube needed to characteristic this video on the house web page however the duo requested to have one among their songs featured as an alternative as they needed to be recognized by their comedic work and never a viral video. After the video was eliminated for unknown causes, the duo uploaded it to their channel, Rhett & Link.

Rhett and Link joined YouTube on September 18, 2008. As of January 2020, their channel Good Mythical Morning has over 6 billion views and greater than 16 million subscribers. They describe their channel: “Welcome to Good Mythical Morning with Rhett & Link! Tune in each Monday-Friday to observe us eat really unbelievable issues, discover shocking new merchandise and developments, compete in authentic video games with movie star company, implement critical experiments in hilarious methods, and extra.”

After being featured on YouTube’s homepage and the following launch of “The Facebook Song” (their most considered video for a number of years), Rhett & Link established a presence on the internet. In September 2012 Rhett & Link uploaded a video of them singing “All Night Long” by Lionel Richie, recording over 11 hours of footage beginning at 7:25 pm ET on the Santa Monica Pier and ending the all-night recording at 6:30 am on Mt. Wilson.

The most-watched movies on the Good Mythical Morning channel as of early 2020 are “Eating a Scorpion – Bug War Challenge” with over 27 million views, “Amazing Game Show Cheaters,” additionally with over 27 million views and “World’s Hottest Pepper Challenge – Carolina Reaper” with over 26 million views. As of June 2019, the most-watched movies on their channel are “My OCD (Song)” with greater than 49 million views, adopted by “Epic Rap Battle: Nerd vs. Geek” with over 44 million views, and “I’m On Vacation (Song)” with over 29 million views.

The duo had a tv present, “Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings,” which aired on the Independent Film Channel. The present chronicled the hunt of Rhett & Link as they traveled the nation making native commercials for small companies. The ten-part docu-comedy is predicated on their profitable net sequence I Love Local Commercials.

Rhett and Link received a Shorty Award in 2016 for Best Web Series for Good Mythical Morning.

On February 22, 2019, it was revealed that Rhett and Link had acquired the Smosh model (Smosh, Smosh Games, Smosh Pit & ElSmosh) after the channel’s former dad or mum firm, Defy Media, had gone into liquidation. Ian Hecox, the co-founder of Smosh, defined that underneath the Mythical Entertainment banner, the channel would have full inventive freedom and launch its personal podcast, generally known as the SmoshSolid. They reportedly paid $10 million to accumulate SMOSH.

Personal Life

Rhett married Jesse Lane (now McLaughlin) on March 29, 2001. The couple has two sons, Locke and Shepherd, and lives in Los Angeles.

As a baby, Rhett suffered from feveral seizures. His sons inherited the identical trait.

Rhett and Link gave the graduation speech at their outdated highschool in 2012 with Link Neal, the place they carried out a tune and had the valedictorian smash a Charmander piñata.

Earnings

In 2019, Rhett and Link earned a mixed $18 million from their numerous endeavors. That was sufficient to make them the fourth-highest YouTubers on this planet for the yr. In 2020 they earned $20 million.

Real Estate

In 2015, Rhett and his spouse purchased a 3,214 sq. foot home within the Los Angeles suburb of La Crescenta for $1.425 million. The house is a contemporary conventional fashion home in-built 1978 with darkish hardwood flooring, a sunken family room, a proper eating room, a kitchen with granite counter tops, a big outside basketball court docket and a swimming pool and spa.