Nearly 6 years after participating in the campaign to support PewDiePie, MrBeast officially became the largest YouTube channel in the world with 269 million subscribers.
“After 6 years, we helped PewDiePie get revenge,” MrBeast posted on X last weekend when he officially surpassed Indian record label T-Series to become the channel with the largest number of subscribers. According to Viewstats data, at the time of posting, MrBeast has 266,707,995 subscribers (currently 269 million), while T-Series has 266,706,387.
Jimmy Donaldson, owner of the MrBeast channel, said that on June 1 alone, the channel reached a record when it had an additional two million subscribers – a number that T-Series took nearly a month to accumulate. With the current growth rate, The Verge believes that it will be difficult for the Indian record company to reclaim its throne.
In addition to having the largest number of followers, MrBeast is also considered the richest YouTuber in the world with a fortune of more than 500 million USD, according to Forbes estimates by the end of 2023. He is famous for his videos that mix dangerous missions. , expensive and funny. In recent years, Donaldson has upgraded the channel with many charity challenges costing tens of millions of dollars such as building bridges and digging clean water wells in difficult areas around the world.
Previously, from the end of 2018, Donaldson was considered the most enthusiastic person participating in the campaign to support PewDiePie – Felix Kjellberg’s largest YouTube channel at that time. He called for subscribing to this YouTuber’s channel on all TV and radio shows he attended as well as buying many advertising signs in the city he lives in.
Donaldson’s campaign helped both PewDiePie and MrBeast gain millions more subscribers, but could not stop T-Series from achieving the most followers on YouTube in early 2019.
At the end of 2019, Felix Kjellberg, owner of PewDiePie channel, announced a break for a while and currently he continues to make videos with about 111 million subscribers.
MrBeast and many PewDiePie supporters said at that time that this campaign was to “join hands to save YouTube”. For some users, maintaining and promoting the channels of independent content creators is the “face” of YouTube. Having a big company like T-Series with a huge budget and a powerful marketing team behind it takes away the real value of the world’s most popular video social networking platform.
In the top 10 YouTube channels by number of followers, MrBeast and PewDiePie are rare individuals, the rest all belong to companies or children’s content channels.
