Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20

Shit dad overall

Why

Because he couldn’t educate his child enough

• to know he couldn’t spend that much on a whim
• to know minecraft videos aren’t gonna be profitable starting solo in 2026
• to even feel bad at all for what he did
• to even realize how massive of a fuckup he just made after his dad found out

That child is done for.

The child is 9 be realistic

then I must have been a genius at 9 because I got an overcharge of like $10 on my phone subscription at about that age and when my dad told me I was mortified at what I had just done

This post is making me realize the position I’m in and how I got here.

My seven year old has my old switch, and uses that account. He always asks before buying anything and has never bought anything without permission. But he uses my Nintendo account, which is linked to my PayPal, which is linked to my credit card.

This card used to have something like $7000 limit. Last I checked though it’s at 32k limit. I should probably set some kind of spending limit just in case on this setup.