One day, swears Mithilesh Patankar, he’s going to laze on a beach and play video games all day.
This sounds like a fine retirement plan, but the 24-year-old Mumbai-based gaming content creator, who goes by the handle Mythpat, still has a way to go. On YouTube for three years now, the winner of the YouTube Streamy Award 2021 for International Creator of the Year may be making a better living than most engineers, but he’s too young to retire. Not to mention too full of ideas that need expression.
Delhi-NCR-based 20-year-old Ujjwal Chaurasia, aka Techno Gamerz, has no dreams of retirement either. He’s too excited about the gaming content he creates. He makes about the same kind of money as Mithilesh, and his future plans now include app development.
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