Dave says his 9-year-old son turned a small YouTube promotion into $118,000 in charges on a company card tied to the Mighty Mike Plays channel, all in roughly three weeks. The spending centered on ads for Minecraft and Roblox videos, and Dave says he is still waiting to learn whether he will have to repay any of it or lose his job.
The reason the story has landed now is simple: the family says the charges were discovered only after employees walked Dave through a breakdown of advertising spending from the previous three weeks. He says the card kept approving the campaigns without a spending limit stopping them, even after the account had already been used for a separate Robux purchase.
Dave says he first put about $20 into an ad for one of Mike's videos to show him how YouTube promotions worked. He says he then showed Mike how to choose an audience, set a budget, and launch the promotion, after which the boy began creating campaigns himself. What had started as a test, Dave says, turned into repeated ad buys tied to the same account.
By the time the bill was tallied, Dave says the company card assigned to him had accumulated $118,000 in YouTube advertising charges. He says three of the promoted videos reached roughly 200,000 views, which helped explain why the spending kept going from the child's point of view. Dave's explanation was blunt: more money, in his telling, meant more views.
That logic, he says, was built on a 14-minute explanation and a setup he did not think his son would treat as open-ended. Dave says Mike did not really grasp that there was supposed to be a limit, and the same Google account that had saved the company card from the earlier Robux purchase kept accepting more charges as the campaigns ran.
The company response is still the part that matters most. Dave says the matter has been escalated inside the company, but he does not yet know whether he will be ordered to repay some or all of the money or whether he will keep his job. He says the family plans to remove saved payment information, add spending caps, and put stronger parental controls in place, and he says the Mighty Mike Plays channel may be paused while they sort out what comes next.
The channel began as a low-key place for Mike to upload gameplay from a PlayStation 5, and Dave says the early videos drew only a handful of views. A separate report said it could not independently verify the total or the employer's final decision, but the figures Dave gave already make the immediate stakes clear: a short run of child-run ad buys, a large charge total, and an unresolved workplace consequence hanging over both.
