Popular American YouTuber MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, has officially become the most-subscribed channel, ending the reign of T-Series, an Indian music record label and film production company run by Gulshan Kumar.
What Happened: “After 6 years we have finally avenged PewDiePie,” said MrBeast in a post on X, formerly Twitter, as he shared a screenshot of a subscription comparison from Viewstats.com. At the time of the screenshot, his YouTube had 266,707,995 subscribers compared to T-Series’ 266,706,387 subscribers. Since then, the number of subscriptions to MrBeast’s channel has increased to 268 million.
T-Series had been the most-subscribed YouTube channel since 2019 after wresting the top position from Swedish YouTuber Pewdiepie. In early 2023, when he only had 127 million subscribers compared to T-Series’ 233 ...