What is L.A. Beast’s net worth?
L.A. Beast is a professional competitive eater and YouTube personality who has a net worth of $1.5 million. He gained fame on the Web for consuming beaucoup burgers and cactus.
He also led a campaign to bring back Crystal Pepsi in 2015.
He was born on January 6, 1984, in New Jersey, USA, as Kevin Thomas Strahle.
Kevin is of Irish, Italian, and German ancestry.
He played college football for the Fordham Rams of Fordham University in NY.
In 2008, Kevin moved to Los Angeles and then worked at Pepsi for two years. ”I worked on the trucks delivering Pepsi in the summers in college,” Strahle told Mental Floss.
In August 2010, Strahle started his YouTube channel (skippy62able) where he takes on extreme eating challenges and stunts.
In November 2011, Kevin participated in The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island. The competition is run by Major League Eating.
In 2013, he ate a live cockroach.
Crystal Pepsi Campaign
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In 2015, Strahle led the #BringBackCrystalPEPSI social media movement. He previously uploaded on YouTube a 2013 viral video of himself drinking a 1990s unopened bottle of Crystal Pepsi, which he bought on eBay.
Kevin and his followers also sent Pepsi thousands of Facebook messages and e-mails demanding Crystal Pepsi’s return.
In August 2015, Kevin and That’s Classic released “The Crystal Pepsi Song,” which contains the lyrics ”Crystal Pepsi is not just another beverage. It’s a way of life, and when we speak, Pepsi will listen. Roses are red, violets are blue, Pepsi is brown but it used to be see-through. Those were the days when our Pepsi was clear.”
Strahle also started a petition on change.org which soon garnered over 33,000 supporters.
”We all have a passion, and we just want to see Crystal Pepsi come back and share the joy, that’s all,” Kevin said in an interview about the campaign. He added: ”We’re not threatening Pepsi, we’re just working with them for the greater goal.”
Linda Lagos, marketing director at PepsiCo, responded in a press release: ”Crystal Pepsi fans, and their enthusiastic requests for its return, inspired Pepsi to bring back this iconic ‘90s product for the holiday season.”
In October 2016, Pepsi re-released the drink in the US exclusively on Amazon.com. ”Everything has just kind of exploded,” Kevin said. ”It’s awesome. I’m speechless.”
In August 2018, Crystal Pepsi was re-released exclusively to the US.
Rushed to the ER
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In August 2015, Kevin was rushed to the Emergency Room after he ingested 21 dimes dip in olive oil.
In 2016, Strahle ate a cactus live on stage at Wing Bowl 24.
In October 2016, Kevin ate all 11 Burger King burgers on their menu. All the burgers have 6,370 calories.
In May 2017, he broke the Guinness World Record for most powdered doughnuts (9) eaten in three minutes. His other Guinness World Records include – most peanut butter cups eaten in one minute, most Bhut jolokia chili peppers eaten in two minutes, and most chicken nuggets eaten in 3 minutes.
In 2018, he received a three-month live-stream ban on YouTube after eating a dead cockroach in a video.
Wife/Girlfriend
L.A. Beast is dating Brittany Apples. She is known as brittyapples on Instagram. It is unclear if they are still dating.
At the time of writing, L.A. Beast is not married.
Height
6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
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Food Challenges
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- about 3 pounds of the hot sauce Sriracha
- 18 raw eggs in a giant beer glass
- 24 raw eggs with the shell on in 4 minutes
- 50 raw eggs in 2 minutes and 30 seconds
- a gallon of Habanero Tabasco sauce
- a six-pack of Miller High Life in under 40 seconds
- 60 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
- 40 nuclear wings in 57 minutes and 22 seconds
- 110 McDonald’s Chicken Nuggets
- two Vegemite jars in 3 minutes
- 5 pounds of sugarless gummy bears in 60 minutes
- an entire watermelon (including the rind)
- 21 dimes
- a gallon of honey while covered in bees; the honey contains more than 24,000 calories.
Trivia
His videos warn that his challenges should “NEVER be attempted or duplicated by anyone – ever.”
Other famous competitive eaters are Miki Sudo and Matt Stonie.
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Net Worth 2024
So, how much is L.A. Beast worth? Kevin earned most of his wealth from ads on his YouTube channel and from participating in competitive eating tournaments. Therefore, American competitive eater L.A. Beast has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
On YouTube (two channels — skippy62able and L.A. Beast Live), Strahle has more than 515 million views, meaning about $1.55 million in revenue before taxes — many of his videos are demonetized.
He made appearances on The Doctors, Tosh.0, World’s Dumbest, The Eric Andre Show, Beyond the Record, Caught on Camera with Nick Cannon, The Today Show Australia, Rude Tube, Outrageous Acts of Science, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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