When he wasn't eking out a living with part-time work, 25-year-old Emrah Bayraktar would take out his phone and edit long interviews of influencers into snippets and post them. "And then one random night, I saw a notification saying that I earned $12," said Bayraktar. "Then two weeks later, I made two-and-a-half thousand dollars, and I thought, 'Maybe I could just quit my jobs and go all-in on this.'" Emrah Bayraktar hide caption

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Emrah Bayraktar

For years, Emrah Bayraktar did just about anything he could to make money: Cleaned cars. Worked a night-shift in a warehouse. Made sandwiches at a Subway during the day.

When he wasn't eking out a living with part-time work, 25-year-old Bayraktar from Antwerp, Belgium would take out his iPhone and edit long interviews of influencers into snippets and post them to Instagram.

"And then one random night, I saw a notification saying that I earned $12, I was like OK cool," Bayraktar said.…