Bart Kwan was born on 18 November 1985, in Monterey Park, California, USA. He is a writer, director and YouTube celebrity best known for his YouTube channel called JustKiddingFilms, started in 2007 and growing rapidly earning around 2.5 million subscribers. His efforts in social media have put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Bart Kwan? As of early-2016, sources estimate that his net worth is at $2 million, mostly earned from the success of his YouTube channel JustKiddingFilms. Kwan has since expanded his channels to include JustKiddingParty and JustKiddingNews. The most recent addition to the string of channels is JustKiddingGamer. He earns from sponsorships, ads, film and television which have all boosted his wealth. Aside from the JustKidding brand, Kwan also has a self-titled channel which has around 500,000 subscribers. The channel mostly features events of his personal life. Overall, the channels that he’s involved in have over 125 million views, with numbers increasing every day.
Bart Kwan Net Worth $2 Million
Bart along with his friend and eventual business partner Joe Jo got the idea of starting a YouTube channel while they were still attending the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). They formed JustKiddingFilms which focused on comedy and other types of video shorts. They used the channel to tackle trends and contemporary topics which attracted the attention of a lot of people. As they continued making content, they found that subscribers to and activity on their channel also rose, helping them increase their net worth. Since 2007, they have done over 300 shorts on the channel and have become guests on other channels as well. Outside of their channel, Bart has become part of the shorts entitled “626” and “Gun Fu”. He’s also been part of the film “Suika and Kwan”. For television, Kwan has been known to appear in episodes of “The Comment Show” and “Cholo Adventures”.
With the high production value needed for their videos, Kwan has also enlisted the help of other people who have become the channel’s staff. Most of them work with the camera, post production, or are featured in other channel shorts.
Their popularity on YouTube has also helped them in other regards as well. According to Bart and Joe, a lot of the videos they make are from personal experiences. The demand for the personalities in the channel has been so high that they’ve been invited to perform internationally. They’ve also made appearances in film festivals, university events and have collaborated with other celebrities in the industry.
For his personal life, it is known that from the time Bart started the channel, he eventually introduced and featured Geovanna Antoinette, and Geo was Bart’s girlfriend during the time. They are now married and sometimes do shorts on the show together. Bart does bodybuilding and likes tattoos, as seen in his videos. He usually wears a Barbell Brigade gym shirt which many speculate is an endorsement for the place.
