His total social media audience exceeds one billion followers.
completely lost in the news cycle of the day, but this is a great feat and jimmy and jeff housenbold (ceo of beast industries) deserves a lot of credit. jimmy has well more than 1B followers across all platforms and they are building disney 2.0
MrBeast hits 500M subscribers on YouTube, a record for the platform (@kaylcobb / The Wrap)
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Positive users celebrate MrBeast reaching 500M YouTube subscribers as an incredible media empire achievement, while negative users accuse the growth of relying on bought views or bots and criticize its effect on youth.
@chamath It’s mind blowing 🤯
completely lost in the news cycle of the day, but this is a great feat and jimmy and jeff housenbold (ceo of beast industries) deserves a lot of credit. jimmy has well more than 1B followers across all platforms and they are building disney 2.0
Are you guys going to be transparent about how many views and subscribers Mrbeast has been buying over the last 2 years?
It appears ~90% of his subs and views this month were bought using paid ads on YouTube.
Thats not something Disney does so I'm just curious when you guys will be honest.
Thanks.
@tylerpalmer There was lots when Jimmy and I created beast industries five years ago. He and Jeff have diversified and will get increasingly diverse over time.
@chamath Serious question how did you think about and evaluate key man risk for an investment like this?
@chamath "more than 1b followers across all platforms" only makes sense if there is 0 overlap
@chamath One word: Sad.
@chamath I don’t know of anyone who actually watches Mr. Beast
@chamath Disney spent decades building distribution. Jimmy built it one subscriber at a time.
@chamath 500M subscribers is absurd. At this point MrBeast isn’t just a creator, he’s a media empire with thumbnails.
@chamath Creator-led media moving like this should scare every legacy comms shop. The gov still buys “reach” like it’s 2009. Jimmy just showed modern scale: trust first, pipes second.
@chamath @tweem 400k views
@chamath I don't know anyone who watches his videos
@chamath Like every other hype machine, it will fall out of favour and disappear. Many will make money along the way. If he does build a theme park or something perhaps it can live on; youtube media is falling off and at the end of the day it's marginal products with a youtubers face
Yes, congrats to all their team. Not my cup of tea at all but, really great work!! Wacko thing is the younger generation wouldn't be screaming at Jimmy & Jeff getting rich, but slag Elon. Mr Beast has given a lot of pleasure to folks all around the world. Hearty congratulations from someone who has only watched 10 minutes of their content. Could they really topple Disney????
@chamath What else was going on today?
@chamath It’s really incredible what jimmy and his team have done
Different ‘📰beast’ today, Chamath. You see the 👽alien👾 stuff yet? How coincidentally ‘ironic’ this 🗞️ comes out today of all days…. 😉
@chamath "They are building disney 2.0" < Agree with this. And he is the person to do it.
@chamath And you invested in him!
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