MrBeast has overtaken T-Collection as the largest YouTube channel in a long-running battle for probably the most subscribers.
Indian music label T-Collection, which uploads trailers and music movies, held the file for the most important YouTube channel for 5 years, earlier than it was toppled on Sunday.
MrBeast, actual identify Jimmy Donaldson, was already the person with the most important following.
However the 26-year-old has now made historical past on the platform with a seemingly unassailable 269 million subscribers, dethroning T-Collection and placing him head and shoulders above all the pieces else.
Throughout almost 800 movies MrBeast has made a reputation for himself with huge stunts – together with gifting away non-public islands, being buried alive, and staging a real-life model of the Netflix hit Squid Sport.
In a put up on X, MrBeast mentioned he had lastly “avenged” YouTube star Felix Kjellberg, often known as PewDiePie, in surpassing T-Collection’ 266m subscriber depend.
In a follow-up put up, MrBeast mentioned his channel took the file with its largest ever every day spike in subscribers, which rose by greater than 2 million on Saturday.
T-Collection initially set the file in 2019 by overtaking PewDiePie – to which the Swedish YouTuber mentioned “all it took was a large company entity with each music in Bollywood” in a music video explaining his defeat.
MrBeast turning into probably the most subscribed-to particular person and channel on YouTube means he has prolonged his grip, and wealth, on the platform even additional.
He has a number of different channels devoted to his gaming, philanthropy and reactions to different content material – accounting for tens of thousands and thousands of subscribers every.
“Don’t e-mail me asking for cash, I give away cash as a result of it makes me blissful,” his channel’s description tells viewers, referring to the sheer amount of money – measured within the thousands and thousands – he has distributed throughout his YouTube profession.
A video he posted in April noticed one particular person win $250,000 (£196,000).
In 2022, Forbes estimated his internet value to be round $500m and ranked him first on its checklist of the 50 high creators in 2023.
Elon Musk, who has inspired MrBeast and different video creators to put up on his platform X (previously Twitter), was amongst these congratulating him.
Making X a extra interesting platform for creators has shaped a key a part of Mr Musk’s technique for making the platform worthwhile, and the YouTuber revealed in January he earned $250,000 from his first video posted on X.
And MrBeast taking the file will come as welcome information for Amazon – which has signed him to a TV deal reportedly value as a lot as $100m.
