How My Forgotten YouTube Channel Quietly Earned €80 While I Was Building Something Else

A personal story of a faceless sound effects channel, 5 million views, and passive income that requires zero ongoing effort
It was a perfectly ordinary Sunday morning. I poured my coffee, opened my laptop to check emails before diving into work, and there it was: a payment notification from Google. Eighty euros had just landed in my account. I sat there for a moment, genuinely confused, trying to remember what I had done to earn it.
The answer was nothing. Nothing recent, anyway. No new videos uploaded. No promotions run. No emails sent. I had not touched that YouTube channel in years.












