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17-year old girl makes up to $70,000 a month with MySpace site!

thomasdemaesschalck.com — Fast Company published a fairly long article in the Sept. edition of their magazine about the 17yr old Ashley Qualls. She runs a MySpace layout and graphics site called Whateverlife. I never heard about this site before but she seems to be doing amazingly well, according to the article the 3yr old site receives 7 million unique visitors per month!

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  • Idrive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+55High school drop out soon to make multiple millions....where did i go wrong???

    • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Relax. Expect many other copycat sites to pop out and offer better, less gay layouts. Then the business may have to upgrade or perish.
    • mroboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11You listened to the man.
    • worldsbestgamer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12The same way I did. By not realizing that idiots click add links that often. Especially teeny bopper myspace emo kid idiots.
      • matthewf01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9hah, they thought they won a free ipod.
      • Kurisuku, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1I dropped out of highschool and own a fairly nice estate right now. Though I made my money through music, so eh.
      • worldsbestgamer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I put an extra D in ad. Who is the idiot now?

        Anyway, 1.5 million visitors, lets say half that click a link, then does that really mean 70k a month in clicks? I dont think so. That would mean a lot of people are paying her personally to make layouts, but who and for how much?

        Then there is the fact that the article could be way off.
      • uberfu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Back when I was a kid in the 80's we made long-distance calls running up the parents phone bills - got lectured - maybe grounded - and had to pay back the expense_

        Except that your other comment about the math is that if she is getting 750,000 hits per month from the click-ads - she has to pay for those_

        They ain't free_

        How do you think Google makes their money ?

        Do the math on the cost of 750,000 clicks that she has to cough up ?

        Then redo the math on the revenue after that_
        • mikeon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I thought the money google gets is from people who want to advertise. Not people who want advertisers.
    • fluidfoundation, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1probably all the gay snuff videos you watch.
    • RaptorNv25, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Google ads requires you to be more than 18 to have an account. How is she doing this?!
      • uberfu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2maybe she has parents - grandparents - aunts - unlces - cousins - siblings that might be over 18_

        Didn't think of that one did you ?

        I know it hurts_ It's okay_
    • achoi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2stop visiting 4chan, fark and digg. People don't realize how much time is wasted making those motivational posters
    • sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Behind every kid you read about who supposedly made money of a good idea, you'll find rich parents who bankrolled the gig and got them in contact with those with real talent.
    • uberfu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You graduated /?
    • OwdenBowden, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I love the fact that she is generating 70k a month. Here parents must be so proud of her as well as pissed off that she in now making more money then both of the combined). Do she get to claim her parents as dependents on her taxes.
  • foxhaze, on 10/10/2007, -14/+202This is why women shouldn't be allowed to use computers.
    • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -16/+2No, this is why anyone under 30 these days needs to get a real life.
      • smcavoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9you forgot to end with "Get off my lawn!"
      • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2I'm 22. I don't think that whoring myself on MySpace is a productive activity in life. And what the hell are you doing on my lawn?

        A comment degrading women get +113 diggs, but my age targeted comment gets Dugg into oblivion.

        You sad, lonely, young men.
        • HueytheFreeman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Whoosh! Right over your head.
    • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0She is probably the first woman to make something like this. Of course a man could never do this as he would not use "whatever" and "LOL!!!11" and "OMG!!!" in sentences or to use gay rainbow colors. These are definitely her success.
  • aussieNickuss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+80"Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!"

    That's what Google Desktop told me when I tried to visit whateverlife.com.
    • capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+34by computer it means your brain.
      • capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -6/+5actually I'm wrong. It is your computer. Apparently the blood from smashing your face into your desk can get into the circuitry. Teach me to double-guess google.

        Bury the previous comment.
    • hugeposuer, on 10/10/2007, -10/+5Why in the world are you using Google Desktop?
    • praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -1/+5Yeah, my antivirus warns of something. Good job, little girl! First spreading computer viruses, then...STDs!
  • Dradis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27"A fool and their money..."
    • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Have the word "Sucker" written on their forehead?

      The internet proves that you don't need to have a good product, all you need is people that will buy ANYTHING with a price tag on it.
      • capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Could we minimize costs and just sell price tags?
    • techmonkey4u, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Get a bloody annoying autoplaying Nickelback music video on their myspace page?
  • bfaulk04, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28Well, good luck to her on this endeavor... it needs to last or develop into something larger. Otherwise that whole minor detail of dropping out of high school might catch up to her... a little.
    • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Yeah, her idea isnt unique so much as it connects with the majority of those who use MySpace -- Teenage girls. Using language whatever, OMG!!! and LOL!11 it certainly makes it popular among them. She made a dumb decision not to finish school. Guess what will happen when her paycheck fails.
      • ChemEng, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Im guessing she'll start using that $70k/month shes banking now.
        • BradMW, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Too bad she already spent it all on stickers and hello kitty backpacks.
        • logic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hey don't be a hater, man.. hello kitty backpacks are the *****.
      • norman619, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5All she has to do now is get a good money manager and she's set.
        • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1In her scale a money manager would take more of her money than help her avoid losing.
      • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+970k is only about 2 years of living expenses. Or 2 months if you're a spoiled teenage girl who hasn't worked hard and doesn't realize the value of a dollar.

        In fact I'd put money down on her blowing it all.
        • Nocturnal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Who the ***** spends 70k in two months? That's a lot of ***** money. Whoever is stupid enough to even give their child 70k every two months deserves a ***** ***** slap to his or her face!
        • slipkn0tz23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Dugg for use of the word "***** slap"
    • capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Yes, because...

      A. High School teaches you so many invaluable things.
      B. It takes a couple months to go through correspondence school or get a GED.
      C. Experience, especially successful experience, isn't valued.

      I'd put my money on her being just fine.
      • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1You're right. We should all drop out form high school.
      • bfaulk04, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Not going to/finishing college is understandable, but if you don't finish high school it shows a complete and total lack of judgment and commitment.
      • Nocturnal, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5High school diploma > GED
        • capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1correspondence school == High school diploma
    • Salgat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Shes making more in a month than many engineers make in a year. If she doesn't blow all her money at once, it'll never "catch up to her". Heck, in 3 years she'll have enough to retire on. Blame the "noobs" who use myspace.
      • RaptorNv25, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Still I think the engineers are helping the economy more and creating more wealth.
    • Helios187, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0yes, but also depends on how much money she spends. if her website failed, she could live comfortably in another country for the rest of her life.
    • achoi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I highly doubt that she's running the whole show solo(protip: the team of bloggers she's got working at whateverlife gives it away). They even have a magazine called..whateverlife magazine. If anything she's more like the spokeswoman for the business. If she's managing the whole operation - props to her, she's living the life of an entrepreneur and being pretty successful while at it.

  • thelastcivilian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+66She was offered $1.5M and didn't take it. I guess the death knell for MySpace hasn't quite sounded. More power to her if her layouts are any good... wait, what? http://whateverlife.com/profile/?layout=circlerainbowgradientcode She's making 70k/month for a site that has rainbow sunbursts? WTF?
    • MajorD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16lol. But at least that layout is readable... can't stand the sites you can't even read.
      • jprichard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Firefox + Web Developer Toolbar + Ctrl Shift S *disables css styles* = A page that shows the basic myspace layout with no backgrounds. A great way to keep from getting the myspace headache.
    • bingobongony, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1The death knell isn't even CLOSE to sounding for MySpace. It is growing every day.
    • Kyzen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0In that example the image is hosted on photobucket. Now there's a way to save on bandwidth costs.
    • norman619, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No accounting for taste I guess. More power to her.
      • GoreJess, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0i got a virus scan alert when i clicked that link
  • iceschade, on 10/10/2007, -3/+84Good god, how I loathe MySpace and the people who live there. I work hard, every day, doing web design (same thing she's doing) and I don't make even CLOSE to what she makes.... And she's 17.
    Well... I guess browsing Digg can't be considered working...
    I work hard at least 3/4 of every day...
    • BobKonysh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+213/4 you deserve a promotion, most barely do 1/2
    • SnuKs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17You sound like Frank Grimes.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Grimes#Frank_Grimes_Sr.
      • Helios187, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1LOL. "whats the matter grimmey?" Simpsonites unite!
    • CSharpSauce, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Thats where you're going wrong... you can't become rich by working.
    • darkism, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0It's not her fault you don't have the entrepreneurial spirit. Go design some landing pages and start some PPC campaigns.
    • hydrodev, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1did i post that? i don't remember saying it.... but that sound like me... im confused.
    • Helios187, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0You just need to master "The Art of money getting" and then you could far eseed anything that this girl is doing. The reason is that you're still working for someone, and shes doing buisness.
  • fluidfoundation, on 10/10/2007, -3/+58LayoutWhore.
  • squaretan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1whooping figure i can say. It is a tough act to follow !
    • shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -11/+1Get a college education, then a graduate's degree, get a real job at 70,000, get raises for several years and make a decent enough name for yourself as an innovator and leader. Eventually end up hired by some big company and start making 60% of your yearly income in bonuses to the sweet tune of 400,000 base+bonuses.
      But yeah, selling whatever this 17 year old girl is selling is a great gig too... Just not that awesome when you consider that in the next 5 years she'll have made only about 210,000 because it'll be over and trite in 3 years and not a constant money machine.
  • winglord01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36It's because these attention hungry teenyboppers invest so much damn time in MySpace, wanting everyone else to see them, why her site is so popular. Still, more power to her. She saw the MySpace train coming and rode it to big bucks.
    • Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11We call her names because we are jealous that she had foresight we did not. :(
    • bingobongony, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0As opposed to the virginal nerds to "invest so much damn time" on Digg?
    • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Exactly, I don't imagine a geeky web designer with 10 times more skills than her choosing to do this kind of thing. She definitely connects with the crowd who use her layouts and that seems to be her success.
    • hydrodev, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0they should all take nude photos of themselves like Vanessa from high school musical did, if they want attention so much.
  • digaway, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Not exactly sure what anyone is getting out of that site but it seems to be popular. Can't imagine anyone over 18 would go there but then they don't need to - tweens and teens are driving the conomy.
    • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3ehm.. the economy is much larger than a million dollors.
  • vvtf, on 10/10/2007, -10/+3......lol...yea....I wonder how many stupid people will fall for this article. There is NO WAY any myspace site makes that much. The only people falling for this are the same guys that BUY pills to make their dick bigger...lol
    • Kershoc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The article title (or at least the title here, I didn't RTFA, read a different one couple weeks ago) is a bit misleading. She doesn't make that from her MySpace site. She makes it from selling MySpace layouts on her whateverlife.com site. MySpace may be the reason she is making the dough, but it is not where she is making it.
    • bingobongony, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0And your facts to back that up are WHAT, exactly? Just becuase you don't like MySpace doesn't mean that making MySpace sites can't be extremely popular.
      • vvtf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I don't mind myspace at all..........but I DO have common sense....which you are obviously lacking.
  • axisofphilippe, on 10/10/2007, -15/+5Whore.
    • Coffeedemon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Jealous much? Would you say that if it was some guy?

      Good for her... she had a good idea and is now rich. Hope she has the sense to save some though because it won't last forever.
      • cpk121, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Damn right it won't last forever. With no education and no actual business sense, this girl is not going anywhere after this dies. Should have gone to college....

        Bill Gates can drop out. Mark Zuckerberg can drop out. Kevin Rose can drop out. This girl can't afford it.
    • shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Mature...
  • disabled4diggin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+34Stack Overflow at Line *****!!!
  • AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Where does the court get off thinking it has the right to appoint a conservator to control her money?
    • zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Weren't you the one who said that kids were essentially property of their parents?
      • AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The parents also have no control over her money. The court appointed an independent third-party to control her assets.
    • shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The court might be right... a lot of people need accountants and professionals to manage money without squandering it. Besides, the money's only with the conservator until she's 18, right?
      • AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A lot can happen in a year. She can't compete because she can't access the funds she needs without someone else's permission.
    • dpchi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I wondered that myself, and when it said she is going to hire a lawyer yet she will have to request the funds from the conservator, I wonder if the conservator will agree to that?
      • AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The process of court would take longer than just until her 18th birthday.
  • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Well only idiots use the crap MySpace.
    ...and they are the same people who click on the ads...
    • bingobongony, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1People FAR smarter, far more socially skilled, for more successful, etc. than you EVER will be use MySpace.
      • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2lol, I can understand when you say socially skilled (because I'm not so) but when you say smarter and successful you are dead wrong.
        Next time, try avoiding the use of caps, it make you look like an idiot.
        • bingobongony, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No...peopel who are smart use MySpace. Just like people who are stupid do as well. People who are ***** idiot high school kids who THINK they are smart use Digg. You are a PERFECT example. You actaully think you are better than others, and smarter than other beciuase you worship a ***** loser like Kevin ***** Rose. Kevin himself is the kind of guy that ate his lunch in the bathroom in high school becuase no one would let him sit at their table. And he is your God! Amazing. And yet you still think you are better htan ANYONE? You will never be better at ANYTHING than anyone.
          • bingobongony, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Oh, and htere is nothing at lal wrong with using caps to emphasize certain words. I don't know where the ***** you THINK you got the idea that selective caps is a bad thing. It is not. Again..thus proving my point about how Digg people like yourself are stupid despite the fact that you think you are smart. What, did your mommmy tell you you were smart? Oh, wait...DOES you mommy tell you you are smart, since you probably still live with her? 9You have to. She did a HORRIBLE job in preparing you for life. She should be jailed for child neglect.)
      • zachshmack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Go cry somewhere, emo kid
        • bingobongony, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Thank you for proving my point.
  • TomT223, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28$70,000 a month and without porn or gambling? Get out of here.
  • apr35, on 10/10/2007, -7/+5Am I crazy, or was this exact same story on Digg like 3 weeks ago? Remember, the ***** poster called the girl fat??
  • seekandestroy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22kudos for not calling her fat this time
  • Sp4nk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18"I made $70,000 last month. How much you make? You see, pal, that's who I am and you're nothing."
    • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8She shouldn't quit her day job. She's like a professional athlete. Except the sports they play will still be popular in two years.
  • daxsymbiont, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8that's one of the "miracle kids" that turn out to have a fat rich parent behind right?
    • hombre69, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2You obviously didn't read the story at all, her parents are poor, she bought the house her family lives in from the money she has made from the site.
  • bejayel, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Pics or its fake..

    I was just browsing around the site. Not only is it brutally designed, but its difficult to get back where you started. That and shes not very hot. NO WAY would any self respecting male browse her profile at least once a month.
    • graemee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"self-respecting", I quite sure a lot of guys are anything but.
    • UncleRico, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"but its difficult to get back where you started." does your back button not work?
    • donkeySays, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Dude, it works at $70,000/month. Your standard compliant, marvellous UI websites probably doesn't even make 5 cents.
  • negativefx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9In one of her pages she uses the word 'wah-lah'. Now honestly, when I was 17, I knew the right way to spell it.
    • zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Took me a few to figure out what the hell that was even supposed to mean .. Jay nay comprenz!
    • shortcircuit13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I still can't figure out what that means.
    • zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually, I just Googled 'wah-lah', and it's incredible how many people have it like that.
  • davids1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Stop reposting this? Surprise people are stupid, I make money everyday playing off humanities stupidity that is part of this life.
    • topherbook, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You're obviously getting paid for good grammar.
  • mortigon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3***** this, we're making a website... anyone interested?
    • runep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's just a fad. People will be back to using gopher any time now.
  • jpilone, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0The link didn't work for me :(
  • HTOstatus, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1.
  • over90000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2myspace and layout in one sentence?

    PIME TARADOX!!
  • coustoe, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2buried as self promoting spam
  • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Kids think that iPhones, ringtones and how many MySpace friends you have determine your success in life.

    We're sooooo *****.
    • tidu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Next at eleven: Recently exposed classified documents report on a presidential hopeful's 70 myspace friends. That's right, he only had 70. The frontrunner in this race, Smith, beat him by at least 100 friends.
  • Kyzen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0article is busted, any mirrors catch it?
  • youdlike2know, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Whateverlife.com has spyware/virus on it.. AntiVir caught it right away
  • nutzngum, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6she's an idiot for passing up $1.5mil. I mean REALLY...someone offered me that much money for ANYTHING I'd not only say YES! , I'd wrap it up and hand deliver it.

    being poor for a long time will make you appreciate money - clearly she has more money than she needs since she was able to turn down that money AND drop out of high school...

    clearly a clever girl.
    • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Or a very silly, greedy one.

      It's easy to pass up that nestegg when the paychecks are coming in. But MySpace won't last forever, especially when she's not selling anything that has an advantage on the competition.

      Who's to say that someone bigger won't see the $70k/month revenue stream and capitalize?

      Her revenue might dry up in a hurry. A la professional athletes. But at least they know their sport will still be around in a few years.
      • Exstatica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0While i agree that its all about financial security, i can imagine that myspace will stick around for at least a few more years. And unless myspace decides to venture into the template profiling system which my bet is they will to add to their revenue stream. I can't imagine its going to happen anytime soon. While this girl is pulling 70k per month and thats a current figure and not future growth she has the potential to pull in more money. With that being said if she sells it off she just has her money and thats it, with a company she can expand into different markets. I think she's making the right decision at least until a better offer of lets say 10mil comes in.
        • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's like holding onto a bubble though.

          It's value will keep on increasing as long as the revenue is there. As soon as someone else competes the value will nosedrive.

          It would take two years of revenue to cover the $1.5 million offer. Invest that $1.5 million, and you'd have even more over two years.

          Every startup, unless you've got mad capilitization, needs an exit strategy. But she's a 17 year old girl and is probably just happy she's making money doing what 17 year old girls like to do these days.

          She's living the dream. I just hope that she doesn't sacrifice everything for it.
    • ArmyOfFun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1She only needs to keep up the $70k/month rate for 2 years to beat that offer. Somewhat of a gamble but the earnings potential is a lot higher than $1.5million if she can figure out a way to sustain (or grow) her current level of income.
      • richmessenger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It's hard to believe anyone wants that crap now, let alone 2 years from now. If she's still around and making this kind of money in 2 years I'll be damned.
  • brianhatch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1DIAF
  • banty19, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3More cushion for the pushin'
    • Cmstech, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3yea, but not bad looking, I'd hit it.
  • choebear, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Digg effect on the blog, here you go:


    17-year old girl makes up to $70,000 a month with MySpace site

    Aug 27th, 2007 by Thomas De Maesschalck

    ashley_qualls.jpgFast Company published a fairly long article in the September edition of their magazine about the 17-year old Ashley Qualls.

    This girl runs a MySpace layout and graphics site called Whateverlife. I never heard about this site before but she seems to be doing amazingly well, according to the article the three-year old site receives 7 million unique visitors and 60 million page views a month and this earns her up to $70,000 a month. Most of this revenue seems to come through Google AdSense and ValueClick.

    At 17 going on 37 (at least), Ashley is very much an Internet professional. In the less than two years since Whateverlife took off, she has dropped out of high school, bought a house, helped launch artists such as Lily Allen, and rejected offers to buy her young company. Although Ashley was flattered to be offered $1.5 million and a car of her choice–as long as the price tag wasn’t more than $100,000–she responded, in effect, Whatever. :) “I don’t even have my license yet,” she says.

    Ashley is evidence of the meritocracy on the Internet that allows even companies run by neophyte entrepreneurs to compete, regardless of funding, location, size, or experience–and she’s a reminder that ingenuity is ageless. She has taken in more than $1 million, thanks to a now-familiar Web-friendly business model. Her MySpace page layouts are available for the bargain price of…nothing. They’re free for the taking. Her only significant source of revenue so far is advertising.

    I already knew that MySpace related sites can bring in a lot of money but this story amazed me, the kind of money she’s pulling in from this site is stunning. Looks like I’m in the wrong niche lol

    You can read the full story over here (http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html). One of the funny things is that a court ruled in January that neither Ashley nor her parents are allowed to manage her finances:

    Until she turns 18, next June, a court-appointed conservator is controlling Whateverlife’s assets; Ashley must request funds for any expense outside the agreed-upon monthly budget.

    The arrangement, she says, affects her ability to react in a volatile industry. “It’s not like I’m selling lemonade,” she says. Besides, it’s her company. If she wants to contract developers or employ her mother, Ashley says, why shouldn’t she be able to do it without the conservator’s approval?

    So the teenager has hired a lawyer. She wants to emancipate herself and be declared an adult. Now. At 17. Why not just sit tight until June? The girl trying to grow up fast can’t wait that long.
  • caliwildman, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10This story getting popular is yet another fine example of Digg gaming in action. I submitted the same story, probably different URL, 4 days ago and got *gasp* 3 diggs in total. I guess what they say is true, only a very small handful of diggers ever become popular, maybe they can share their secret.
    • ArmyOfFun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You have no one on your friends list so no one is going to see it. You should be happy you got 3 diggs. Don't feel bad though, I'm in the same boat.
    • ToxicGas, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4it really is annoying that the same names show up in the front pages all the time. might as well change the name of 'digg news' to 'whatever pizzler and his buddies think is popular'
    • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Just like life, Digg's not what you know, but who you know.
    • caliwildman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Yeah doesn't it make you feel like high school all over again? I agree with stycymrk completely, maybe we should start our own popular circle of friends and beat pizzler at their game LOL.
    • cpk121, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Yeah, it sucks... I'm with you on that, bud.
    • caliwildman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0cpk121, stcymrk, ArmyOfFun, bromac, I added you all as friends (add me back if you wish), I am interested in this little social experiment to see if we mere mortals can become popular diggers. Anyone interested in being my friend, please comment on here and I will add you.
  • Duncarob, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4More power to her. She found a market, and is now exploiting it. Welcome to Capitalism. Smart kid.
    • scrogger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Yeah, more power to her, but she didn't find the market, it found her. Started designing layouts for her friends who liked her designs and it spread from there.
  • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0Wow, impressive. Makes me wish I was a 17 year old girl.

    ...wait, what?
  • eatbeefjerky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37I hate myspace.
    I hate myspace layouts.
    I hate most people who use myspace and the horrible layouts that come with it.

    I wish I'd thought of this idea first.
    • sremick, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I hate duplicate stories on Digg about people who use Myspace layouts
  • BradMW, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7She's a genius, 12 year olds are too dumb to use Adblock, it's the only viable market left.
    • Duncarob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I thank the lord only the tiny 'gimme something for nothing' tech minority uses that program otherwise a lot of us would not be able to make an honest living. Visit my site? Take my bandwidth? Gimme something back in return for my hardwork ya leeching bastard.
      • Nocturnal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's the honest truth. Without AdSense there are many people who wouldn't be able to even run a site. Digg and many other sites have or still do use AdSense for an income generator.
      • cpk121, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Duncarob, the people who use AdBlock are the people, who would NEVER click on any of your ads anyway.

        We are defending our wish not to waste our time downloading your ads. You aren't losing money because we never would have clicked if we had to see them.
        • antriver, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0they're losing money if they get paid each time the ad is shown
    • derjames, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1there must be older poeple too dumb to use adblock because they must be using IE...
      wait... I think there is an adblock add on for IE... (well who cares...)
  • inc0gn1t007, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0$70,000/mo?! I only get about $130/mo from my MySpaceCursorCode (.com) website... beaten by a 17yr old girl, ugh! *shame*. Granted it looks like I probably put far far less effort into the project (~2 weeks a year ago).
  • smujeremy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I bought a domain and was going to do something similar.

    profilepirate.com

    Unfortunately I am too lazy.
  • johnburk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I wonder how long it will take for Google to block her account. How she uses Google adsense is against the TOS
    • Cmstech, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Please explain....
    • RaptorNv25, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You cannot be underage and use google ads
    • xtragedy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Moreover, there can't be 7 million unique visitors on that page.
      lets see: 7million / 30 / 24 / 60 / 60
      You're telling me she has more than 27 visits a second?
      • scrogger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0She's ranked around 300th most pop web site - ahead of Oprah.com etc ... so yeah. Oh and she has 7 servers.
  • rnawky, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Tom should remove the ability to use custom layouts and make MySpace look like Facebook.

    There goes that fat bitches money.
  • darkkosmos, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Considering how much facebook is growing and how everyone is trying to kill myspace I would think this buissness will crash, and I don't think facebook alows styles.
  • lisapham, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I earn negative $12 a month on my MySpace acct!
    • Helios187, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Hah Hah! thats cuz you're a loser. you're the losiest loser that ever lost.
  • hokeywebb22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I never knew what this site was until i went home 2 weeks ago. My sister was spending hours every day on that site.
    • Kyan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Um, that;s actually interesting. How old is your sister. And ask her WHY she likes the site. I'm sure a lot of us are honestly curious about the WHY part.
  • Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1MySpace is HORRIBLE and if someone were to basically rebuild the same thing from the ground up without all the bugs and uber irritating ad-stop pages they could make a million easy.
    • Kyan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Um so , do it.
    • uberfu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1But not you !!

      'Cause it's not your thing - huh ?
    • Sp4nk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Such a site exists. It's called Facebook.
    • gmoney2003, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0ya, or you could just build your own website with like...you know, webspace, and that html and css ***** and like put a link somewhere on your page so your 'friends' can email you, i mean unless you're obsessed with the kewl features myspace offers.
  • jasonh1234, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Printed. (For my next performance review/raise request denial.)
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