Kim Kardashian earned a mammoth $45 million from her mobile game, “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.”
According to Forbes, the “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” star received her paycheck after the game had been downloaded roughly 45 million times and generated around $160 million in revenue. The mobile app enables players to create their own celebrity and attempt to climb the Hollywood ladder.
Kardashian took to Twitter in response to the news. At first, she sent a nice message about her late father, Robert Kardashian. Then, Kim took aim at all of her haters.
Such a tremendous honor to be on the cover of @forbes! I never dreamed this would happen& know my Dad would be proud pic.twitter.com/jxsjXnfVQE
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) July 11, 2016
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) July 11, 2016
The game is incredibly popular, with Wired Magazine tabulating that users have spent a total of more than 30,000 years playing the game all told. Kim herself has said that she was a big gamer as a child, but wasn’t sure if she wanted to create her own.
“I loved videogames growing up,” she said. “I remember I asked Kanye, ‘Should I do this?’ He was like, ‘Yes!’ That’s how he got into music, because he wanted to do music for videogames and wanted to create videogames.”
Still, Kim had her doubts.
“I was like, ‘I wonder if people are really going to…mimic my life.'”
Since the game’s inception, Kim has become fascinated with the digital technology.
“I became really intrigued with the tech world. I started spending a lot of time in San Francisco. I realized this is really going to be the next cycle of my career and this is what I want to focus on.”