Creator, musician and entrepreneur
Dixie D'Amelio
Base case$30M
Estimate confidence
★★★★★
2 out of 5
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VanossGaming Net Worth Estimate
Creator, gaming entertainer and musicianVanossGaming’s $45 million base case is anchored by three consecutive earnings estimates: $15.5 million in 2017, $17 million in 2018 and $11.5 million in 2019. Those figures establish substantial historical cash generation without revealing Evan Fong’s current balance sheet.
Published estimateReviewed Sep 23, 2026
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Research context
See what supports this page, how current it is, and where comparable or historical context is available.
- Evidence
- 3 retained sourcesReviewed through Sep 23, 2026
- Change history
- 1 tracked snapshotComparable tracking began Sep 18, 2026
- Comparison context
- 1 reviewed peer rankingPeer lists preserve the same base-case estimate and uncertainty range.
Current estimate
What we can support today
Base case
$45M
Bear case
$25M
Bull case
$70M
Estimate confidence
2 out of 5
Why this estimate
- Main wealth driver
- Modeled retained creator capital ($40M base case)
- Estimate confidence
- 2 out of 5
- Key evidence
- Forbes estimated VanossGaming earned $15.5 million in its 2017 scoring period and reported sponsorship pricing of up to $450,000 for a video integration.Sources[1]
- Biggest uncertainty
- How much of Fong’s 2017-2019 creator earnings remains in liquid or invested assets?
- Evidence reviewed through
- Sep 23, 2026
Base case is our central scenario. Bear and bull cases show how uncertainty around private holdings, retained proceeds, taxes and liabilities can move the estimate.
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Rankings use the current base-case estimate and show the wider bear-to-bull range on the full list.
Scenario composition
Where the estimated wealth comes from
Switch scenarios to see how the total and each component move together. The bars show each positive component's share of the estimated assets in that scenario, not audited holdings.
Bear scenario net worth$25MPositive estimated assets shown: $25M
Retained creator capital
$22M to $62M range$22M88%
Creator-brand, catalog and music value
$3M to $8M range$3M12%
Base scenario net worth$45MPositive estimated assets shown: $45M
Retained creator capital
$22M to $62M range$40M89%
Creator-brand, catalog and music value
$3M to $8M range$5M11%
Bull scenario net worth$70MPositive estimated assets shown: $70M
Retained creator capital
$22M to $62M range$62M89%
Creator-brand, catalog and music value
$3M to $8M range$8M11%
How VanossGaming Built a Fortune
Forbes placed Fong among YouTube’s highest-paid creators in both 2017 and 2018, and CBS reported another Forbes estimate for 2019. That gives the wealth case a better cash-generation history than a single viral year.
Those figures are pretax earnings, not savings. Taxes, management, production costs and spending mean only part of the historical gross income should survive as current wealth.
VanossGaming has an unusually deep gaming-video library, and Fong also expanded into music. Both can support ongoing economics beyond the original upload period.
No public sale or valuation establishes what those assets would command independently, so the estimate keeps their separate value small.
Sources[1][2][3]Observed assets and financial anchors
A reported salary, company sale or brand valuation is not automatically current personal wealth. We show the pieces that can be tied to retained evidence and keep historical flows separate.
No major component is directly observable as a precise current valueThis estimate is built from source-backed financial anchors and explicitly modeled scenario ranges rather than pretending a private balance sheet is directly observable.
Historical flow
Forbes estimated VanossGaming earned $15.5 million in its 2017 scoring period and reported sponsorship pricing of up to $450,000 for a video integration.
Sources[1]Scenario balance sheet
The estimate discounts documented historical creator earnings into retained capital and keeps the channel, catalog and music brand as a modest separate asset rather than applying a multiple to views or subscribers.
| Component | Bear | Base | Bull |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeled retained creator capitalSources[1][2][3] | $22M | $40M | $62M |
| Modeled creator-brand, catalog and music valueSources[1][2] | $3M | $5M | $8M |
| Estimated net worth | $25M | $45M | $70M |
Modeled component
Modeled retained creator capital
Forbes estimated $15.5 million of earnings in 2017 and $17 million in 2018, while CBS reported a Forbes estimate of $11.5 million in 2019. Those figures are historical pretax earnings rather than current assets, so the model discounts them for taxes, professional costs, spending and uncertain later-year earnings.
Sources[1][2][3]Modeled component
Modeled creator-brand, catalog and music value
Fong built a large gaming-video catalog and expanded into music, but no public transaction establishes a standalone sale value for the channel, catalog or personal brand. The model therefore keeps this allowance small relative to retained capital.
Sources[1][2]Tracked estimates
Estimate history
We began retaining comparable estimate snapshots on Sep 18, 2026. Earlier Grizzly Bulls figures are not reconstructed unless a retained snapshot exists.
- Current tracked estimateBase case$45MBear to bull$25M to $70M
Initial Grizzly Bulls estimate published with retained creator capital separated from bounded channel, catalog and music value.
This is the first retained snapshot, so there is no earlier comparable Grizzly Bulls estimate to show yet.
What could move the estimate
- How much of Fong’s 2017-2019 creator earnings remains in liquid or invested assets?
- What are current profits from the VanossGaming channel and related media businesses?
- Does the long-running video catalog have material transferable value independent of Fong’s ongoing personal brand?
Wealth timeline
Forbes estimates $15.5 million of annual earnings
Forbes placed Evan Fong second on its 2017 YouTube earnings list and reported premium sponsorship economics.
Sources[1]Forbes estimates $17 million of 2018 earnings
VanossGaming remained among YouTube’s highest earners while Fong also developed a music career.
Sources[2]Forbes estimate reported at $11.5 million for 2019
CBS reported the Forbes ranking and noted that Fong remained one of the platform’s highest-paid gaming creators.
Sources[3]
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Sources
Numbered citations above link to the retained sources below. External net-worth headlines do not set our estimate.
- [1]ForbesReporting · Dec 7, 2017The World’s Highest-Paid YouTube Stars 2017: Evan Fong (VanossGaming)
- [2]ForbesReporting · Dec 3, 2018Highest-Paid YouTube Stars 2018: Markiplier, Jake Paul, PewDiePie And More
- [3]CBS NewsReporting · Dec 19, 2019Top 10 highest-paid YouTube stars of 2019, according to Forbes
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