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If you haven’t ever heard of Jacob Sartorius, then you’re not keeping up with news about young celebrities. He’s still in his teens, and yet he’s really made a name for himself in recent years. He’s a successful musician as well as a standout social media star. What is Jacob Sartorius’ net worth?

Who Is Jacob Sartorius?

Jacob Sartorius (whose first name is actually Rolf, but he goes by his middle name) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in October 2002. His parents were unable to care for him, so he was adopted soon after the was born. He moved to Reston, Virginia with his new family. From the time that he was little, he demonstrated a love for acting and singing. His website indicates that he began appearing in musicals at the tender age of eight. He’s been performing to some degree ever since.

As many young people do, he quickly took to social media. Also similar to many young people, he experienced bullying. However, whereas some teens only find more bullying on social media, Jacob Sartorius found the opposite. He found an escape from bullying, a place where he could truly be himself, and even a platform for expressing anti-bullying sentiments to others. In that process, he found a following.

Jacob Sartorius, Social Media Star

Sartorius was a huge hit on Vine before that app shut down in 2017. He had more than eight million followers at the time that it closed. Remember that he wasn’t even old enough to drive a car at this point in his young life! He didn’t limit himself to Vine, of course. He was very active on Musical.ly, which has now morphed into TikTok.

How Many Followers Does Jacob Sartorius Have on Social Media?

Much of Jacob Sartorius’ net worth derives from his social media following. He’s an influencer. He also sells his own music and merchandise, sales of which are certainly driven or at least support by his social media accounts. As of late 2021, he has the following reach:

23.9 million followers and a whopping 1.6 billion likes on TikTok
9.8 million Instagram followers, with only about 100 posts on the site
Almost 3 million YouTube subscribers, where he shares his music videos
1.2 million Facebook followers
165,000 monthly listeners on Spotify

Jacob Sartorius, Musician

Although social media is the platform for his work, what Jacob Sartorius is most known for is his music. He did a lot of lip-syncing videos on his early social media, horning his performance art skills as a musician. Then he started releasing his own original music. In fact, he was only about 14 years old in 2016 when he released his debut single, titled “Sweatshirt.” That single made it the to Hot 100 charts in both the United States and Canada.

Early Work

That year, he did his first small music tour. Called the All My Friends Tour, he performed in six different cities. He was successful in those efforts. In fact, Google reported that he was the 9th most-searched musical artists of 2016! Therefore, the following year, he released his single “The Last Text.” Then he did an international music tour for that, performing in seven different countries. He did another tour that year called “The Left Me Hangin’ Tour,” which had a combination of US and European stops.

The following year, in 2018, he released two more singles, “All My Friends” and “Hit or Miss.” The latter did particularly well, reaching 72 on the United States Hot 100 Charts. That was the year that he released his album titled “Better With You.” He also opened on tour for The Vamps in 2018.

Recent Work

He has continued to release singles and albums consistently. In 2019, he released the album “Where Have You Been?” Recently, he released “Lost But Found.” He has worked with record labels but his latter album was self-released. The songs “For Real” and “Hey Hello Goodbye” (which features Dempsey Hope) are the most popular singles from that album to date. He also has several popular music videos from both old and new releases.

Jacob Sartorius Award Nominations

Although he hasn’t won any awards, yet, Jacob Sartorius received half a dozen nominations in 2016 and 2017 for:

Choice Muser, Teen Choice Awards (in both 2016 and 2017)
Social Star Award, iHeart Radio Music Awards
Favorite Viral Music Artist, Kids’ Choice Awards
Favorite Social Media Star, Radio Disney Music Awards
Muser of the Year, Shorty Awards

As you can see, there’s a clear overlap between his music career and his social media work. One simply doesn’t exist without the other.

In addition to these award nominations, his website indicates that some of his accolades include being a guest on “Vice News Now” (HBO), “Here and Now” (NPR), and MTV’s “TRL”, modeling for the cover of Billboard Magazine, performing at the HALO Awards and the Kid’s Choice Awards, and reaching the “5th most engaged user” live on Twitter. Speaking of Twitter, about a year ago he invited some controversy after releasing some weird tweets that ultimately got him trending again on the app.

Jacob Sartorius’ Personal Life

Every social media celebrity has their controversies and intrigues. For example, we’re always interested in their love lives, aren’t we? Jacob Sartorius dated Millie Bobby Brown, of “Stranger Things” for over half a year in 2018. They were a very visible couple on social media. They would regularly comment sweet things on each other’s accounts, for example. You could often find images of them in an embrace. When they broke up, they chose to each announce that together through social media. It’s a modern teenage love story. The two reportedly didn’t talk much for awhile, and Sartorius is said to have put her down a bit in one of his songs, but then they seemed to make up enough to at least be cool with one another.

What Is Jacob Sartorius’ Net Worth?

Okay, so we know that Jacob Sartorius’ net worth comes from a combination of music sales and social media work, But how much is the teenage celeb worth? Celebrity Net Wort doesn’t provide a lot of detail with how they came up with their number but they place his net worth at about $3 million.

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Are you familiar with Kristen Hancher? You might know her as an actress with a handful of appearances starting in 2017. However, chances are that if you know her then it’s more for her work as a social media personality. In fact, she stirred up a lot of attention in early 2021 when she was TikTok banned her for promoting her OnlyFans account. The attention likely only gained her more of a following. She’s young, still, with lots of potential for growth. What is Kristen Hancher’s net worth today?

Who Is Kristen Hancher?

TVOM explains that Kristen Hancher is a Canadian social media personality who has begun to make some headway as an actress. She was born in May 1999, making her 21 years old as of the writing of this article. Hancher started to see success on social media in 2017, while she was still a teenager, and she’s been a rising star ever since. Her popularity is primarily among similar-aged young adults and teenagers, although she has some older fans as well, of course.

However, she’s not without controversy. In addition to the aforementioned ban from TikTok, she’s also made headlines for alleged mistreatment of animals. It looks like this was blown out of proportion. It all happened in 2019, when she took a photo of herself atop a horse that was standing in water. People viewing the photo online said that the water was too high for the horse to be safe. They accused her of caring more about a photo op than the wellbeing of the animal. She refuted the claims through her agent, but it turned some people off at the time. One of the drawbacks of being a social media celebrity is that it comes with a lot of negativity as well.

In fact, this wasn’t the first time she faced controversy. When she was younger, she dated Andrew Gregory, another social media star. In 2017, they “accidentally” (details unclear) live streamed an intimate moment between the two of them. The Internet had plenty of negative things to say about that, of course. In that same year, she was bullied online for being “too thin.”

Despite the controversy, Kristen Hancher has continued to work at her craft. She’s known for emulating Kylie Jenner’s looks. She also shares lots of other makeup content, as well as hair and fashion tips. Additionally, she lip syncs along ti favorite songs. In 2017, she was invited to appear in at least two music videos (James Barker Band’s Chills and PLVTINUM’s “London’s Calling.”) That same year she began appearing as a TV actress.

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Kristen Hancher, Social Media Star

Obviously, most of Kristen Hancher’s net worth so far comes from her social media work. She started on a platform called YouNow. However, she joined TikTok (then known as Musical.ly) and saw quick success there. In fact, as of just two years ago, she ranked seventh most popular across the entire site. She had 23 million followers at the time. Of course, TikTok has grown significantly in popularity in just the past few years. She had close to 25 million fans when she was banned from the site.

It was probably a hard hit. She’d been making a good income from influencer opportunities on the site. However, she’d also begun to amass a large following on other social media channels including Instagram and YouTube. She had obviously also started an OnlyFans account. After all, she was banned from TikTok for promoting that account, which isn’t allowed according to TikTok’s terms of agreement. They permanently banned her from their app after she broke that term by mentioning the account in a post caption.

Kristen Hancher’s Current Social Media Accounts

Despite the TikTok ban, you can easily find Kristen Hancher online. She continues to earn influencer and advertising income on other channels:

She has over five million followers on Instagram.
YouTube is a great platform for her. She has about one million followers there.
She has an old Twitter account that doesn’t seem to be active now. It dates back to 2015 and has about 50,000 followers.
Likewise for Facebook, where she has about 100,000 followers.
We have not checked to see if she has an active OnlyFans account. OnlyFans is known primarily for adult content. That said, they changed their terms earlier this year.

So, as you can see, Instagram and YouTube are her primarily channels at this time. This is likely where most of Kristen Hancher’s net worth derives from at this time.

Kristen Hancher, Actress

Kristen Hancher has leveraged her social media celebrity to begin working as an actress, primarily for television so far. 2017 was the magic year that kicked things off. In addition to appearing in two music videos that year, IMDB reports that she was in an episode of the show “The Pain of Painting.” The same year, she was in ten episodes of the show “Misshaps.” At the end of 2017, and into 2018, she was also in three episodes of “Mani.”

In 2018, Kristen Hancher played the role of Sarah in a television short called “Troubled Youth.” The following year, she performed the role of Mona in a short named “Sitting in the ’80s.” IMDB doesn’t list any additional television or film credits for her since then. We’re curious to see if she’ll pursue more of these opportunities in the years to come. She does well for herself on social media. However, as the controversy showed, you can those apps can cut you out quickly if you aren’t careful. Therefore, it makes sense to diversify income opportunities. It might be good for Kirsten Hancher’s net worth if she pursued more acting.

Kristen Hancher’s Awards

According to Wikipedia Kristen Hancher has not won any awards. However, she’s been nominated for three:

Choose Muser, Teen Choice Awards, 2016
Choice Muser, Teen Choice Awards, 2017
Breakout Creator, Streamy Awards, 2017

What Is Kirsten Hancher’s Net Worth?

We know that Kirsten Hancher has appeared in a few television shows and music videos. However, most of Kirsten Hancher’s net worth comes from her social media work. As a result, tracking her earnings isn’t very easy.

As of 2019, long before TikTok banned her account, TVOM placed her net worth about $400,000. Nikhil Sharma, writing for The Wikifeed, says that as of mid-2021, her net worth was closer to $600,000. As a result, we estimate that Kristen Hancher’s net worth is approximately half a million dollars. At her young age, she has plenty of room to add to that over time!

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