SMITHTOWN, Long Island (WABC) — A teenager from Long Island is making large greenbacks through gambling video games.
Griffin Spikoski, 14, of Smithtown, is an athlete; however, not in your conventional sense. He’s an expert athlete with Misfits Gaming and has raked in almost $2 hundred 000 playing the famous online video game Fortnite.
Sikorski, recognized online as Sceptic, plays the game approximately eight hours weekly (after finishing online training for excessive college) and 18 hours on the weekends.
“Do you observe you ought to reduce again?” Eyewitness News reporter Kristin Thorne asked Spikoski.
“It’s kind of like my process,” he stated.
It all started nine months ago when Griffin uploaded a video to YouTube that showed him beating a famous Fortnite gamer. The video got 7.Five million perspectives.
After that, money started to roll in from subscribers and YouTube advertisers. He now has more than 1 million subscribers on YouTube and has made appearances for Samsung, the PGA, and the Miami Heat.
“We attempt to keep him humble about it,” his dad, Chris Spikos, said. We try to locate the proper balance between his school work and retaining his priorities immediately.”
The family created Sceptic Gaming Inc. and hired an economic adviser and accountant.
Griffin said he is saving $two hundred 000 and any future income if his gaming profession doesn’t exercise sessions. He stated he could use it for college, a house, or a car.
“I need parents to understand that you recognize that if their kids revel in playing video games and they have an ardor for it, and they are in reality desirable at it, they have to deal with it as another game,” Spikoski stated.
Sikorski and his family will journey to Berlin next month for an international online video gaming conference.
