Jimmy Donaldson, famously known as MrBeast, has now become the most subscribed YouTuber after his channel surpassed the music company T-Series on the video-sharing platform.
The American YouTuber announced his news on Sunday on X (formerly Twitter). In his post, MrBeast said that he has “avenged” Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie. He has also shared a picture that showed the latest subscription figures.
MrBeast’s YouTube channel has 267 million subscribers. Whereas, T Series has 266 million followers.
“After 6 years we have finally avenged Pewdiepie,” the note attached to the post read. For those who don’t know, MrBeast, last year, extended his support to his fellow YouTuber and said, “I’m doing this for Pewdiepie.”
Tesla chief Elon Musk was amongst the first ones to congratulate MrBeast. He wrote, “Wow, congrats!”
MrBeast also challenged the Chief Executive Officer of T-Series, to a boxing match last month. It happened at a time when T-Series was the most subscribed YouTube channel and MrBeast was inching closer to the music label.
Another YouTube star PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, was the highest-earning YouTuber in the world. He captured a lot of attention for his video game commentaries. At one point, he had surpassed T-Series to become the most subscribed.
Things took massive turn, in 2017, after Disney chose to cut ties with PewDiePie. The company found out that some of his videos contained Nazi references.
In 2020, PewDiePie announced that he won’t be posting content on YouTube. At that time, he had 102 million subscribers.
