Forbes has released its first-ever “Top Creators 2022” list featuring the world’s most powerful and successful influencers on the internet. These outstanding creators have earned a total of $570 million in 2021, with their contents consumed by over 1.9 billion people following them across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
The influencers were featured based on their earnings and engagement as seen in their likes, shares and comments.
The first-ever list features Nigerian-British YouTuber and rapper Olajide Olatunji, and Nigerian-American comedian and writer, Ziwe Fumudoh, among African creators who made the list. Other African creators in the publication include Senegalese-born Italian TikTok sensation, Khaby Lame, and Kenyan social media comedian, Elsa Majimbo.
Here’s what Forbes wrote about the two Nigerians featured on the list.
No. 20 – 2021 Earnings: $10Million
Olajide Olatunji (KSI)
British YouTuber turned rapper and boxer, Olajide Olatunji, known as KSI, and his promotional company Misfits Boxing recently staged his comeback in the ring at his “Two Fights, One Night”; he won both events. Olatunji got his start in 2009 when he started posting YouTube videos commenting on FIFA video games. Later as part of the Sidemen, a group of British internet personalities, he cofounded restaurant chain Sides and Vodka brand XIX. He also cofounded workout drink Prime Hydration with Logan Paul.
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No. 38 – 2021 Earnings: $2.5Million
Ziwe Fumudoh
Northwestern-educated Ziwe Fumudoh got her start as a viral star as the creator of the YouTube show Baited With Ziwe, in which she comically confronts people about racial issues. More recently, Fumudoh has cohosted Crooked Media’s Hysteria podcast, and served as a writer for Stephen Colbert, late-night show Desus and Mero and the New Yorker, among others. She now has her own Showtime show, simply called Ziwe.
Congratulations to them.
