Remember Charlie Bit My Finger? The Kids Are All Grown Up & Made Millions Off The Video

Back in 2007, a British father filmed a family moment and uploaded it to YouTube, not realizing that the footage would become one of the most-watched videos on the internet at the time. Sure enough, though, the boys in the "Charlie bit my finger" video went on to make a ton of money from it (and the now-adult brothers have used it in a very mature way). 

For those who don't remember, the "Charlie bit my finger" video featured a little boy (later revealed to be Harry Davies-Carr) having his finger bitten by his baby brother, Charlie Davies-Carr. Harry giggled about it at first, then offered up another finger to be bitten — only for Charlie to really sink his teeth in. The video was an immediate hit, particularly because of Harry's wide range of emotions, and the fact that despite shrieking for his brother to stop, he stayed incredibly polite throughout. However, in the family's first TV interview, their dad said that he'd never anticipated his kids would become some of the first YouTube stars. "I put it on YouTube because the boys' godparents [lived] in America," Howard Davies-Carr explained on "Richard and Judy." Well, it's safe to say it reached more than their godparents, and speaking to ABC News in 2012, Howard said he had partnered with YouTube so they could financially benefit from it. He added that the money generated (around $500,000 at that point) had been put towards the kids' schooling.

In 2021, the family earned even more from the video by auctioning it as an NFT. As reported by BBC, the video was sold for a whopping $760,000, and Howard told the outlet that between that and previous earnings, they'd brought in more than $1 million over the years. Once again, though, that went to the boys' education. Talk about a mature approach!

Both Harry and Charlie Davies-Carr are in their twenties at the time of this writing, and as Charlie revealed in a 2021 interview with BBC, he couldn't even remember life before they'd gone viral. That said, the brothers have always been very mature about it, no doubt because of their parents' approach. In their joint BBC interview, Howard Davies-Carr explained that he hoped his kids would go on to lead normal lives despite the fame. "By the time they're adults, I want them to be more than just the video. ... You see fame come and go, it's very fickle. So we've never viewed this as fame, we've never viewed it as a source of income," he said. 

Also in that BBC interview, Harry said he planned to use some of the money to study for an engineering degree. Charlie was still in his mid-teens then, but according to his LinkedIn, he's gone on to study law. As for his university experience, in 2025, he told BBC he didn't go out of his way to tell people about the video. "I was never going to use this as a fun fact," he said, adding that every once in a while his friends would tell others about it, but even then, the interest would wear off fairly quickly. 

All that said, it is worth noting that the brothers aren't jaded about their fame early on. Far from it, in their 2021 BBC interview, Charlie gushed, "We've been to America twice from it, I went round Sky's studios, and we've met a lot of cool people. It's just an extra part of our life that's quite interesting." It's a very impressive take, and we're giving major props to their parents for defying the child star odds.