MrBeast finally became the most popular YouTube channel in the world

Jimmy Donaldson, the man behind the world-renowned channel known for its challenges and extravagant rewards, announced on social network X that MrBeast's YouTube channel has surpassed 266 million subscribers. With this, it overtook T-Series, the most popular Indian music channel to date. At the time of writing, the number of subscribers has reached 269 million, while the T-Series stands at 266 million.

“After six years, we finally got our revenge on Pewdiepie", Jimmy wrote on Sunday. By this, of course, he was referring to another world-famous YouTuber, Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie. He held the number one spot on YouTube for quite some time until 2019, when he overtook the aforementioned T-Series.

By overtaking T-Series, Donaldson has made a huge leap. Many content creators, not only on YouTube but also on other platforms, have hit a “crisis” at some point in their careers and their number of followers and subscribers has started to decline. MrBeast has somehow managed to avoid this.

He has been making YouTube videos since 2012, and since then he has managed to grow into a successful business story. He is the owner of the chocolate bars Feastables and the fast food restaurants MrBeast Burger. Related to these is an interesting story in which Donaldson sued the company behind the MrBeast Burger chain, alleging that their "terrible quality" of burgers was damaging his brand.

Donaldson recently announced another big news: he has signed a deal with Amazon. He will create a show for Amazon Prime called “Beast Games,” in which 1,000 people will compete for a $5 million prize.

The YouTuber told Time Magazine in February that he earns between $600 and $700 million a year, but he doesn't consider himself rich because he invests all his earnings in videos.