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Cory DeVante Williams, popularly known by his online name CoryXKenshin, is an American YouTube personality, vlogger, Let's Play commentator, and comedian, with an estimated net worth of $15-20 million as reported by multiple sources like Net Worth Spot, and an estimated annual income of over $1 million.
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Williams first joined YouTube in 2009 when he was a 16-year-old and registered his channel under CoryXKenshin. The next month saw him upload his first video on the platform where he talked about women, dating, and his thoughts about the movie Hitch. His initial content was mainly based on vlogs that covered his school and subsequent college life with videos of him and his friends, as reported by Net Worth Spot.
After choosing to diversify his content, Williams first played White Finger, a horror survival game, and uploaded the footage of him playing on his YouTube channel in October 2013. Subsequently, he uploaded a number of videos that covered him playing the 1994 sports game called Super Punch Out. Since then, Williams has made a name for himself playing horror games, with horror RPGs being his favorite sub-genre. Apart from horror games, Williams also plays a lot of action games with Bloodborne, Dark Souls, The Evil Within and Outlast being some of his most popular play throughs on his YouTube account.
Williams attended a number of gaming festivals like Comic-Con International and PAX East, where he met other prominent YouTubers such as Muyskerm, Yamimash, LordMinion777 and jacksepticeye. Fellow YouTuber, Caillou Pettis helped Williams get his YouTube channel verified in 2015. Ever since 2013, the CoryXKenshin channel has come a long way from its original vlog based content and managed to create an audience for itself, even achieving the coveted one million subscriber mark in November 2016. As of today, Williams has over 13.5 million subscribers on his CoryXKenshin channel thanks to his unique approach in how he plays games as well as his clean and quirky sense of humor. All this has helped him amass an incredibly loyal following, distinguishing himself from all the other Let’s Play commentators on YouTube
Williams refers to all his subscribers as Samurais and holds the title of Shogun in his streams. He ends every video with his signature ‘S-S-S-S-SAMURAI slice that like button.’
Williams shares the same popularity he has on YouTube with all his other social media platforms with over 4.1 million followers on TikTok, 2.3 million followers on Instagram and over 1.6 million followers on Twitter.
Williams has often collaborated with Charity: Water, a non-profit organization that aims to provide drinking water to people in underdeveloped nations and on many occasions has helped the organization by appearing in their fundraising films as reported by Net Worth Spot.
| Real Name | Cory DeVante Williams |
| Nick Name | The Shogun/ The Ankle Breaker |
| DOB (Age) | November 9, 1992 (age 27) |
| Height | 6 ft 3 inches (190 cm) |
| Weight | 85 kg (187 lbs) |
| Net worth | $15-$20 Million |
| Nationality | American |
| Address/Residence | South Lyon, Michigan |
| Subscribers | YouTube - 13.5M subscribers TikTok - 4.1M Followers Instagram -2.3m Followers Twitter - 1.6M Followers Twitch - 89.1K followers |
| Total Views | YouTube - 5,665,864,710 views TikTok - Over 1.7B views |
Williams earns his massive $15-20 million net worth valuation from his streaming career as well as the AdSense revenue from his YouTube channel. Apart from that, Williams also earns a decent amount from any tips and donations he may receive from her viewers while live streaming.
Net Worth Spot estimates that CoryXKenshin's YouTube channel has an estimated net worth of about $20.19 million on its own and the channel earns an estimated $5.05 million a year based on the estimate that YouTube channels earn anywhere between $3-$7 per one thousand views. However, these are conservative estimations and CoryXKenshin could very well earn over $9.08 million a year.
SocialBlade reports CoryXKenshin makes an estimated $14,000-$223,500 per month and anywhere between $167,600 - $2.7 million per year.
During their time on Twitch, a streamer usually earns approximately $3.50 per subscriber. Given that CoryXKenshin had over 89 thousand followers, multiple reports suggest he made at least $4500 to $9000 during his short Twitch career.
Due to the success of his streams, Williams has been sponsored or has done sponsored content for the likes of Astro Gaming, Warner Bros., 7 Eleven, Microsoft Store, and The Division 2 video game, among others.
CoryxKenshin has his own merch store in collaboration with Represent, where he sells hoodies, t-shirts, coffee mugs, and mobile covers.
Though a lot of information is not available about the man behind CoryXKenshin, multiple sources report Williams lives in his $400,000 house in South Lyon, Michigan with his dog, Samson the Savage, and his brother.
Cory DeVante Williams, popularly known by his online name CoryXKenshin, is an American YouTube personality, vlogger, Let's Play commentator, and comedian, with an estimated net worth of $15-20 million as reported by multiple sources like Net Worth Spot, and an estimated annual income of over $1 million.
No, CoryXKenshin has not retired, though Williams has become quite popular for his ‘hiatuses’. Ever since 2013, the CoryXKenshin account has gone on a hiatus for at least 13 times owing to a number of factors like William choosing to pursue his studies etc.
In a video uploaded in August 2021 following William’s return from one of his famous hiatuses, his YouTube channel received a Community Guidelines strike on a Try Not to Laugh video he uploaded back a couple of years back for apparent child abuse. The following month, Williams responded to this in his video “YouTube Gave Me A Strike & Won't Tell Me Why”, which subsequently reached #1 on the trending list within its first couple of hours and discussed William’s frustration and disdain for YouTube's lack of communication during situations like these.
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