What is Preston Arsement's net worth and earnings?
Preston Arsement is an American YouTube personality who has a net worth of $25 million. Preston Arsement is known for his challenge, prank, and gaming videos. He has many YouTube channels, with his most popular being the "Minecraft" channel PrestonPlayz and the FPS games channel TBNRfrags. Arsement also has channels devoted to animation and reaction videos, among other content.
Preston has become one of the highest-paid social media personalities in the world thanks largely to his Minecraft and general video game content. He operates Minecraft servers which users pay to access. Users can also purchase in-game virtual goods. As we detail in a moment, he makes $14 – $20 million per year.
Earnings
In 2019 Preston was one of the highest-paid YouTube stars on the planet. He earned $14 million in the year which made him sixth-highest paid YouTube personality. In 2020, once again he was the sixth-highest earning YouTube personality with $19 million in income.
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Early Life and Education
Preston Arsement was born on May 4, 1994 in Dallas, Texas. He has five siblings: David, Daka, Keeley, Caleb, and Joshua, the latter three of whom have their own YouTube channels. When Arsement was just a few months old, his parents divorced. He was educated at the Travis Academy of Fine Arts. Arsement also earned an IT-1 certification as a teen for teaching himself how to build computers.
YouTube Career
Arsement launched his first YouTube channel, the FPS games channel TBNRfrags, in late 2010. At one time focused on "Call of Duty" gameplay, it later became primarily a "Fortnite" channel. TBNR stands for "The Best Never Rest," and includes Arsement's friends and fellow YouTubers TBNRKenWorth and ChocoTheChocobo. Arsement started his second YouTube channel, PrestonGamez, in late 2014; however, it never saw any uploads. He went on to launch PrestonRoblox in 2017, a channel focused on "Roblox" gameplay. Arsement later changed the name to PrestonGamez. In the spring of 2018, he started what would become his most popular channel, PrestonPlayz, formerly called PrestonMinecraft. Featuring "Minecraft" gameplay, the channel has amassed over 14 million subscribers.
A year after launching PrestonPlayz, Arsement created PrestonCosmic, a channel devoted to the "Minecraft" server CosmicPvP. With fellow YouTuber MrWoofless, Arsement owns the server. He next launched PrestonShorts, a channel focused on short video clips of challenges and pranks. In mid-2021, Arsement started PrestonCartoonz, which includes clipart animation of "Roblox" gameplay designed by NewScape Studios. After that, in early 2022, Arsement launched the reaction channel PrestonReacts, which showcases him reacting to an assortment of videos. Overall, across his many YouTube channels, Arsement has a total of over 25 million subscribers.
Other Media Appearances
Arsement has made some other media appearances beyond his YouTube channels. On television, he made a guest appearance on the Nickelodeon series "All That" playing a character called SimonSlayz. In 2022, Arsement had a cameo appearance in the film "Sonic the Hedgehog 2," and in 2023 had a voice cameo in the DreamWorks animated film "Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken."
Charity
Involved in charitable endeavors, Arsement has donated to the Australian Wildlife Charity. He was also among the four YouTubers who participated in the GamePink "Minecraft" charity event in 2018, alongside Logdotzip, UnspeakableGaming, and MooseCraft.
Personal Life
In 2016, Arsement began dating a fellow YouTuber named Paige. After they broke up in early 2017, Arsement started dating nurse Brianna Barnhart, whom he eventually married in the spring of 2018. The couple has appeared together in many vlogs and online Q&A videos, while Barnhart has made several appearances in her husband's various gaming videos.
