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“#YouTube<\/a> streamers make money walking around NYC<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Lots of New Yorkers fell in love with taking long walks during the pandemic. Now, some of them have made it their jobs.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Chin quit his career as an accountant in January to focus on walking around neighborhoods \u2014\u00a0Times Square one night, Jackson Heights the next day, then Williamsburg \u2014\u00a0and livestreaming what he sees on YouTube.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York City really is a city that\u2019s full of life and endless things to do; there\u2019s always new opportunities, new things opening up,\u201d said Chin, 33, whose ActionKid<\/a> channel has 266,000 subscribers and more than 84.8 million views.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are realizing that, \u2018Wow, I can actually really showcase my city in a way that I enjoy it and show it to my audience,\u2019 \u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Kenneth Chin\u2019s YouTube channel ActionKid has over 266,000 subscribers, and his videos regularly get over 10,000 views.<\/figcaption>
Kenneth Chin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Livestream walking tours of New York City have become incredibly popular since the start of the pandemic, as people around the world have been eager to see something beyond their own backyards. Viewers tuned in for the curiosity factor of an empty city, then kept coming back as the hustle and bustle returned.<\/p>\n

Chin, who started livestreaming his walks in 2019, has gained 149,000 subscribers and averaged around 4 million views per month since March 2020. He\u2019s made almost 3,000 videos and some \u2014\u00a0walks around Fifth Avenue, Times Square and Downtown Brooklyn \u2014\u00a0have notched up a million or more views.<\/p>\n

He said a single livestream can pull in a hundred dollars or more just from viewer donations. Filming around a mostly empty Times Square this past New Year\u2019s Eve, Chin earned $2,000 after taxes from donations and advertisements.<\/p>\n

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