Nicely, people, the seemingly inconceivable has been achieved. After slightly greater than a decade of content material creation, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is not the most-subscribed YouTuber on Google’s video-sharing platform. That title belongs to Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, who handed PewDiePie by just a few thousand extra subscribers. Cue the confetti and fireworks, or no matter you utilize to rejoice.
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 formidable quantity to attain for anybody individual, MrBeast swiftly sped previous PewDiePie’s subscriber rely on November 14.
As noticed by the esports and influencer website Dexerto, MrBeast now additionally has 111 million subscribers. However as you’ll be able to 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 concentrate on 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 “dying to all Jews”. He additionally used to joke about rape and has been caught often 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, then again, is a family-friendly creator. Having began his channel in February 2012, MrBeast used to add movies round Treyarch’s Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 2 and Mojang Studios’ Minecraft earlier than transitioning to what he’s now identified for: making a gift of cash and prizes via 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 “undoubtedly will” move him and he “undoubtedly 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.
In fact, there’s an enormous caveat right here. Whereas MrBeast often is the most-subscribed YouTuber, he truly solely has essentially the most numbers as a person creator. There’s an Indian file label and movie manufacturing firm referred to as T-Collection that has 229 million subscribers on YouTube, although there’s a full group of staff behind that channel. So within the face of that, MrBeast’s feat is actually outstanding. All hail the brand new king, I assume.