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9-Year-Old YouTuber Allegedly Spent $118,000 Promoting His Gaming Videos With Dad’s Company Card

A father says his 9-year-old used a saved company credit card to promote gaming videos, leaving him facing possible termination.

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A kid who got in way over his head with his gaming YouTube channel wound up spending $118,000 on ads using his dad’s corporate credit card.

David Sarkisyan seized control of his nine-year-old son Mike’s channel, Mighty Mike Plays, to release a confession video titled “Mighty Mike Plays is Over.”

In it, Sarkisyan explains how his young son Mike got into making Minecraft and Roblox videos. He didn’t think much of it. It seemed sweet and innocent. The videos Mike uploaded got the single-digit reviews you’d expect from a child’s game-streaming channel. Everything was chugging along just fine, until........

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