Connor Joel Franta was born on 12th September 1992, in Wisconsin, USA, and is a YouTuber, internet personality, writer and entrepreneur. As of the latest data, Franta’s main channel has 5.6 million subscribers. He is involved in various companies, such as a clothing line, coffee and lifestyle brand with the name of Common Culture. His memoir “A Work In Progress” came out in 2015. Connor has been active in the entertainment industry since 2010.
How much is the net worth of Connor Franta? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $3 million, as of the data presented in early 2018. The internet and various endorsement deals are the major sources of Franta net worth.
Connor Franta Net Worth $3 million
To begin with, the boy was raised with his three siblings in La Cresent, Minnesota by his parents Peter and Cheryl Franta, a doctor and a housewife respectively, in a Catholic household and was educated at St. Peter’s Catholic School. As a child Franta was overweight so his mother put him onto the YMCA swimming team. He was also running cross country while studying at the La Cresent High School, from which he matriculated in 2011. Then he did a Business education course at Saint John’s University, and in his second year Art as a minor subject.
Concerning his professional career, Franta took note of what other YouTube vloggers such as Mitchell Davis and Shane Dawson and were doing, and began uploading to YouTube in the summer of 2010. His channel has now been viewed more than 350 million times, and has several million subscribers, which ranks him 128th on the list of YouTubers with the largest number of subscribers.
In 2014, Franta was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in category Web Star: Male, but lost to Tyler Oakley. At the end of 2014, Franta released a music compilation called “Crown, Vol. 1” with songs by rising artists. The album entered the Billboard 200 and has peaked at number 12 on the iTunes pop charts. Franta now has plans to expand the Crown brand into other industries; in 2015, Franta also came with his own line of coffee, called Common Culture Coffee, then spent a year working on his debut book “A Work in Progress” in which he talks about his whole life from birth. With the release of the book there was also a book tour, which began in Minnesota and continued through Houston, Orlando, New York, New Jersey and Los Angeles. The tour also went to London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds in the UK.
Regarding his philanthropic efforts, Franta held a fundraising for The Thirst Project, to build wells for people in Swaziland. He put up the goal of $120,000 in a month, by giving fans the chance to give a T-shirt, poster, an acknowledgment in one of his videos or even a Skype conversation with him. Within 48 hours, his fans had already raised $75,000 and reached the $120,000 target in ten days. By the end of the month they had accumulated more than $230,000, and Franta travelled to Swaziland to see how it was with wells they could build from the collected money.
Finally, in the personal life of Franta, he publicly came out as a homosexual in a YouTube video in 2014, in which he makes it clear that he has learned to accept himself as the person he is, and be pleased with himself. He also spoke in the video about the help he received from others on the Internet, and with this video he wanted to give advice to people who struggle with their nature. This six-minute video titled “Coming Out” has been viewed more than 10 million times and is the second most-watched video on its channel. Since 2015, Franta has lived in Los Angeles, California. Currently, he is single.
