The long-running competition for the most subscribers on YouTube has seen MrBeast surpass T-Series as the largest channel.
Prior to being overtaken on Sunday, Indian music label T-Series, which posts music videos and trailers, had been the largest YouTube channel for five years.
Jimmy Donaldson, as MrBeast, was already the person with the biggest fan base.
However, the 26-year-old has now dethroned T-Series and elevated himself above all others on the platform with an apparently unbeatable 269 million subscribers.
With over 800 films, MrBeast has gained notoriety for his outrageous pranks, which include burying himself alive, giving away private islands, and performing a live rendition of the popular Netflix series Squid Game.
MrBeast claimed to have “avenged” Felix Kjellberg, a.k.a. PewDiePie, the popular YouTuber, by exceeding T-Series’ 266 million subscribers in a post on the news.
Mr. Beast claimed in a follow-up post that his channel set a record with its biggest-ever daily surge in subscribers on Saturday, with a gain of almost 2 million.
The Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie said that “all it took was a massive corporate entity with every song in Bollywood” in a music video explaining his defeat to T-Series, who had previously broken the record in 2019 by surpassing him.
