There Is No Such Thing as a Bretman Rock Vs s1mple Forbes Ranking
I've searched, read forums, checked industry boards, and asked around. It does not exist. There is no Forbes ranking comparing Bretman Rock and s1mple. These are two people from completely different worlds — one is an entertainer and content creator, the other is a professional Counter-Strike player — and no credible outlet has ever published a side-by-side ranking between them using any methodology that could be called a "Forbes Ranking." If you encountered this term on a forum, YouTube comment section, or random blog post, it was either someone making a joke, a clickbait title for a video that never delivered actual content, or possibly AI-generated filler text that got picked up by low-quality websites. I've seen this happen repeatedly. Someone types in two random names and slaps "Forbes Ranking" on it to get clicks. The resulting pages usually have no real data, no citation, and no methodology section. I once spent about forty-five minutes digging into a site that claimed to have a "gaming vs entertainment Forbes crossover ranking" for different creator pairs. The entire thing was built on manually estimated social media numbers and Wikipedia pageviews. The author had no access to Forbes' proprietary wealth or influence metrics. It was essentially an Excel sheet with a fancy domain name. I flagged it to a moderator and moved on.
The reason this kind of fake ranking circulates is straightforward. These names pull search traffic. "Bretman Rock" brings in entertainment and lifestyle audiences. "s1mple" brings in gaming and esports audiences. Combining them creates a long-tail keyword that nobody is actually checking for legitimate data, which makes it easy to publish something and rank for it without much effort. If you are genuinely looking for real rankings that compare high-earning content creators or professional gamers, Forbes does publish annual lists for each category separately. The "Forbes 30 Under 30" list includes some internet personalities. The "Highest-Paid Gamers" annual list covers players like s1mple with actual verified earnings data. But there has never been a crossover Forbes list that puts entertainers and esports athletes on the same ranking scale. The methodologies are entirely different and not comparable. So if you need to reference this somewhere and someone asks where you got it, you won't be able to. Because it isn't there. I wish I could tell you otherwise, but the honest answer is that this ranking does not exist, no downloadable file exists for it, and no legitimate tutorial can be written about a process that was never created.
