Make Money From YouTube

MYFOXNY.COM - Some people can waste hours watching YouTube videos -- others are making money from it. A ninth-grader from Dallas is making what some might consider a decent living. The teen produces and earns money from the videos  she produces in her spare time.

Fox's Steve Noviello has the story of this young Internet entrepreneur (video, left).

"Carlita27" started on the road to hre unlikely living with a homework assignment.

"I had the option of writing a paper or making a movie and I didn't want to write a paper so I made a movie. I made a YouTube channel and I put it on there. All of a sudden one of my videos went viral and YouTube featured it on their front page. from then people started picking up and they saw my other videos and it got caught up and everything started falling into place," she said.

Now her moviews are making big money because she is cashing in on thousands of clicks each months. That's a significant step -- even in cyberspace.

Carlita27 told Fox, "YouTube sent me an e-mail saying, 'Hey you want to join our partner program?' "

Some months, those thousands of clicks on her video can add up to thousands of dollars.

The videos reflect Carlita27's reality.

"Normally they are random things that happen to me and then they are exaggerated," she said.

She said she hopes it all turns into a lifelong career.