Properly, people, the seemingly not possible has been finished. After a bit of greater than a decade of content material creation, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is now not the most-subscribed YouTuber on Google’s video-sharing platform. That title belongs to Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, who handed PewDiePie by a number of thousand extra subscribers. Cue the confetti and fireworks, or no matter you utilize to have fun.
PewDiePie began his channel in April 2010, importing Let’s Play movies on motion and horror video games like Frictional Video games’ Amnesia: The Darkish Descent and Naughty Canine’s The Final of Us. He rapidly rose to prominence off the again of his content material, turning into the most-subscribed particular person YouTuber on the platform in August 2013. The Verge dubbed PewDiePie the King of YouTube in 2014 and since then, he’s gone on to amass some 111 million subscribers whereas increasing his uploads to incorporate commentary and vlogs alongside his Let’s Performs. Although that’s a powerful quantity to realize for anybody particular person, MrBeast swiftly sped previous PewDiePie’s subscriber rely on November 14.
As noticed by the esports and influencer web site Dexerto, MrBeast now additionally has 111 million subscribers. However as you may see within the video above, MrBeast managed to eclipse PewDiePie’s incredible number by just a few thousand more, topping out at roughly 111,847,586 subscribers versus PewDiePie’s roughly 111,846,073.
MrBeast dethroning the OG King of YouTube is smart when you consider his content material in relation to PewDiePie’s. PewDiePie has been a somewhat controversial determine up to now—like that one time again in January 2017 when he requested some performers to show a banner allegedly calling for “loss of life to all Jews”. He additionally used to joke about rape and has been caught repeatedly utilizing racist language in opposition to Black people in his movies, although he has since apologized for this egregious habits.
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MrBeast, however, is a family-friendly creator. Having began his channel in February 2012, MrBeast used to add movies round Treyarch’s Name of Obligation: Black Ops 2 and Mojang Studios’ Minecraft earlier than transitioning to what he’s now recognized for: gifting away cash and prizes by way of costly competitions and stunts. He’s additionally been on a philanthropic kick since October 2019, elevating funds for the Arbor Day Basis to plant over 20 million timber in nationwide parks throughout the US.
Hell, even PewDiePie knew his days because the King of YouTube had been numbered. In a YouTube Brief from this previous August, after MrBeast reached 100 million subscribers, PewDiePie mentioned MrBeast “positively will” go him and he “positively deserves it” as a result of PewDiePie had retired from YouTube, although he hasn’t stopped importing.
Kotaku has reached out to MrBeast and PewDiePie for remark.
After all, there’s an enormous caveat right here. Whereas MrBeast would be the most-subscribed YouTuber, he truly solely has probably the most numbers as a person creator. There’s an Indian file label and movie manufacturing firm referred to as T-Sequence that has 229 million subscribers on YouTube, although there’s a full crew of staff behind that channel. So within the face of that, MrBeast’s feat is actually exceptional. All hail the brand new king, I suppose.
