Link Neal Net Worth 2024

What is Link Neal’s net worth?

Link Neal is an American YouTube persona, comedian, and actor who has a net worth of $20 million. Link Neal is finest recognized for being one half of the Internet comedy duo Rhett and Link with Rhett McLaughlin. The duo is understood for his or her viral movies and comedy songs in addition to their tv collection Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings, which aired on the Independent Film Channel. They are among the many most-popular and highest-paid YouTubers on this planet. In 2020 alone they earned a mixed $20 million, making them among the many highest-paid YouTube stars in the world. 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

Charles Lincoln “Link” Neal III was born in Boone Trail, North Carolina to Charles Lincoln Neal II and Sue Capps on June 1, 1978. When he was two years outdated, his mother and father divorced. Sue married her highschool sweetheart, Jimmy Capps, and so they moved to Buies Creek, North Carolina.

He met Rhett McLaughlin, his collaborator on the Rhett & Link YouTube channel, on September 4, 1984, on the primary day of first grade at Buies Creek Elementary School in Buies Creek, North Carolina. The two boys received in bother for writing swear phrases on their desks and their first-grade instructor, Ms. Locklear, had them keep inside throughout recess as a punishment. Their punishment was to paint in photos of legendary creatures and beasts together with Paul Bunyan and unicorns. They bonded and have become finest pals.

Link as soon as described his and Rhett’s friendship as one thing much like fraternal twins who have been separated at beginning. Link went to the identical elementary college, center college, and highschool, Harnett Central High School, as Rhett.

When Rhett and Link have been 14, they wrote a screenplay referred to as “Gutless Wonders” and began making a movie primarily based 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 referred to as The Wax Paper Dogz. During highschool, Link and Rhett made a blood pact, promising to do one thing “Big” and “Awesome” collectively sooner or later. They have been each accepted into North Carolina State University, the place they have been roommates. Link graduated NC State University with a level in Industrial Engineering in 2000. After graduating from college, Link went to work for IBM for some time earlier than quitting to pursue his YouTube channel with Rhett full time.

YouTube Career

Today, Rhett and Link are the OG YouTube stars. They host the favored each day present Good Mythical Morning, on which they eat issues like Cheetos flavored Pop-Tarts. They have 4 channels, a podcast, and two books.

In 2006, Rhett uploaded “Wolfpack or Tarheels?” to his private YouTube channel. The video was of his 3-year-old son crying as a result of the North Carolina State Wolfpack misplaced their rivalry recreation in opposition to the North Carolina Tar Heels. YouTube requested Rhett if it might characteristic the video on its residence web page, however Rhett and Link needed considered one of their songs featured as a substitute so that they’d be recognized for that, not a viral video. The video was finally eliminated for unknown causes and so they uploaded it to their Rhett & Link channel.

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 actually unbelievable issues, discover shocking new merchandise and traits, compete in unique video games with celeb company, implement severe experiments in hilarious methods, and extra.”

After being featured on YouTube’s homepage and the next launch of “The Facebook Song” (their most considered video for a number of years), Rhett & Link established a presence on the net. 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 search 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 collection I Love Local Commercials.

Rhett and Link gained 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 father or mother firm, Defy Media, had gone into liquidation.  Ian Hecox, the co-founder of Smosh, defined that below the Mythical Entertainment banner, the channel would have full inventive freedom and launch its personal podcast, often called the SmoshSolid. They reportedly paid $10 million to accumulate SMOSH.

Personal Life

During his junior yr of college, Link met Christy White at a rollerskating rink. They received married in 2000 in Kinston, North Carolina. They have three youngsters collectively, Lillian Grace Neal, Charlies Lincoln Neal IV, and Lando James Neal.

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, Link and his spouse paid $1,265,000 in May (2015) for a reworked 1960 residence of indeterminate architectural vernacular on .29-acre of land within the Los Angeles suburb of La Crescenta.  The 3,638-square-foot residence has 3 bedrooms and a pair of.5 bogs plus a big main bedroom with shiny hardwood flooring within the bed room and a soaking tub within the bathtub.  The yard contains a pool. The $1.265 million he paid was $70,000 greater than the asking worth. The house is on a cul-de-sac positioned a few mile from Rhett and his family’s residence in the identical La Crescenta neighborhood.