MrBeast has ended PewDiePie’s reign as the YouTuber with the most subscribers – the first change at the top in almost 10 years. Swedish creator PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, became the most-subscribed YouTuber in August 2013 with his gaming reaction videos.
In 2019, he was the first person to attract 100 million subscribers. However, the philanthropy of MrBeast (Original name: Jimmy Donaldson) has overtook PewDiePie’s position and has now become the most subscribed YouTuber in the individual category. Read on to know more about MrBeast and his YouTube channel.
Who Is MrBeast?
MrBeast is known for videos featuring huge cash giveaways and prizes, as well as charity work. In 2021, he launched a separate philanthropy-themed YouTube channel, which itself has more than 10 million subscribers, and he has a licensed charity that functions as a food bank to feed communities across the US.
Jimmy Donaldson and fellow YouTuber Mark Rober organised international collaborative fundraisers TeamSeas and TeamTrees, which focus on environmental issues. The latter raising more than $24m (£16.7m) to plant 20 million trees worldwide. And PewDiePie himself donated almost $70,000 to the TeamTrees project.
Who Is The Most Subscribed YouTuber?
Few people demonstrate YouTube’s shift better than Jimmy Donaldson, better known to his 112 million subscribers as MrBeast. This week Donaldson, 24 and born in Wichita, Kansas, became YouTube’s king, surpassing Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg as the most subscribed-to individual on the platform.
Among his biggest hits are a viral video where he recreated the sets from the Netflix series ‘Squid Game’ at a cost of $3.5m (£2.9m), then invited 456 people to compete in challenges to win $456,000 in prize money. He unabashedly splashes the cash on his videos, offering a $1m prize for a game of hide and seek in another clip. He reportedly spends up to $10,000 on the design of each of his video thumbnails, the small squares designed to lure viewers in.
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