Culture MrBeast surpasses T-Series as YouTube’s most-subscribed channel and “avenges” PewDiePie - The 26-year-old vowed to get revenge for the Swedish YouTuber at the start of 2023 when he had 127 million subscribers — far out of reach of T-Series’ 233 million at the time.

Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson has reached the number one spot after surpassing Indian record label T-Series to become the most-subscribed channel on YouTube.

After T-Series took the subscriber crown from PewDiePie back in 2019, MrBeast has steadily been on the chase. The 26-year-old vowed to get revenge for the Swedish YouTuber at the start of 2023 when he had 127 million subscribers — far out of reach of T-Series’ 233 million at the time.

Almost exactly a year and a half later, MrBeast has made up the over 100 million subscriber difference. As of June 1, 2024, MrBeast surpassed the Indian record label to become YouTube’s most-subscribed channel.



T-Series appeared to sense its reign as the most-subscribed channel was at risk back on April 15 where it posted a call to action video enlisting its followers to “unite and create history.”

In response, MrBeast went on the offensive, replying directly to T-Series on X telling viewers, “Naw, subscribe to me instead.” Following this, the YouTuber challenged T-Series’ CEO, Bhushan Kumar Dua, to a boxing match.

Then, on June 1, with MrBeast gaining a surge of momentum, he was over to overtake T-Series, fulfilling his promise to “avenge” PewDiePie.

With MrBeast continuing to take content to the next level, breaking record after record, the achievement was a long time coming.

His videos are well known for being intense, with videos ranging from burying himself alive for a week to making contestants survive 100 days trapped together for a hefty cash prize.


MrBeast is now the most-subscribed YouTuber.

The YouTuber has also given away millions to family, friends, fans, and those who need it with his own non-profit charity, Beast Philanthropy.

His ventures outside of making content have skyrocketed too, with his chocolate bar ‘Feastables’ rapidly flying off shelves at Walmart locations across North America and constantly selling out.

The YouTube king announced in May that he’s looking for 5,000 applicants to take part in “the largest game show ever in history” with $5,000,000 on the line for his first show ‘Beast Games’ with Amazon Prime.

While Donaldson may have won the battle with T-Series, the war is far from over. The two rivals are still racing towards 300M subscribers, and it’s anyone’s guess who will get there first.

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[Dockside Extortionist]

bitch lasagna

 

[Iron Hamster]

dsp downstairs crying

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

I've never understood why T-Series is the most popular channel on Youtube. Are that many people around the world really listening to Indian pop music?

There's 1.4 billion indians just in India, and indian cultural exports have been going places rapidly these last few years, it is not unthinkable for them to have 200million+ subs

This 'sub battle' is really more about 'corporate' YouTuber' vs. homegrown Youtube, as in media companies and digital mills that are just aggregates for content compared to self-made, homegrown YouTubers, like Mr. Beast and PewDiePie after the clear cynical disconnect and favoritism of the former became apparent after the infamous YouTube Rewind 2018. Whatever he is now, Mr Beast did get to where he is largely on his own merit.

There's absolutely nothing "home-grown" about Mr. Beast, he's a brand with most likely hundreds of employees behind him, from legal experts, to photographers, to scriptwriters, to who knows what else. His videos are closer to medium-length films in terms of production value than a youtube video, and even among them he's one of the ones that does the least work. Mr. Beast is no Jake from BSR that goes to a lot of the places he reviews, that explores many of the abandoned sites that he analyzes, he's just the face of a corporation

 

[Sneeder Griffin]

I've never understood why T-Series is the most popular channel on Youtube. Are that many people around the world really listening to Indian pop music?

India's the biggest country in the world that doesn't have their own direct competitor to YouTube, like Bilibili in China.

 

[Vect]

There's absolutely nothing "home-grown" about Mr. Beast, he's a brand...

He's a brand now. He got that through YouTube. 7 years ago, it was him, in front of his computer, alone, trash talking little kids vlog intros and playing Minecraft. That's what YouTube was supposed to be, individuals building a brand.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

He's a brand now. He got that through YouTube. 7 years ago, it was him, in front of his computer, alone, trash talking little kids vlog intros and playing Minecraft. That's what YouTube was supposed to be, individuals building a brand.

If you told someone from the early 2010s that Fred was going to have 200+ people working on his Youtube videos they would have called you delusional, this was not the intended outcome

 

[Dire Dire Cocks]

Remember lads, subscribe to MrBeast.

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

The white man marches on!

 

[Blonrad Blurze]

Even with all the money and connections, the Indians still cant stay ahead. Sadge.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

 

[12345678901]

never count out the white mannnn

 

[Moss Monster]

Mr. Beast is a weird looking faggot, but he's a Caucasian weird looking faggot. The poo in the loos need to understand their purpose in life is bringing white soldiers water & having poems written about them if they wind up dying doing it.

 

[Vecr]

I consider Mr. Beast to be a somewhat less scummy version of SBF. Proceed accordingly. He has lower ambition so that theoretically leaves more room for risk management, but the theory wasn't SBF's main problem anyway.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

Oh yes, let's celebrate another corporate YouTube Channel surpassing another corporate YouTube Channel pushing individual, indie creators further down the list. WOOOOO!! Confetti! You'll own nothing and lurve it.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

bitch lasagna

Time to dust this off

 

[indomitable snowman]

congratulations
Funny that beast is also a massive corporate entity which means Pewdiepie is still the largest individual youtuber.

 

[stupid frog]

Where is the Mr Beast AI bitch lasagna version

 

[Sicko Hunter]

India alone has more people than the entire Western Hemisphere combined

This is the best evidence god doesn't exist or if he does he is not benevolent.

 

[indigoisviolet]

I've never understood why T-Series is the most popular channel on Youtube. Are that many people around the world really listening to Indian pop music?

Try 1 in 4 humans on the planet. For comparison, the European/North American market is 1 in 10 all combined.

It's why everything pivoted towards India/Pakistan/Bangladesh in the mid 10s when they got affordable consumer broadband for the first time. It's why Silicon Valley appointed a bunch of Indian CEOs out of the blue: to exploit the emergent marketplace. It's also why porno went sister-fucking incest at the same time: a billion Pakis tipped the search engines.

 

[Just_A_guy]

While I don't care for his content. He at least made it by honestly hijacking the algorithm like people used to. Rather than just being Indian and propped up by google needing a source of slave labor for tech support.