The 25-year-old made $263,355 (£207,214) in revenue over the course of three days from an old video that she uploaded titled “$1 Car vs. $100,000,000 Car”.
MrBeast is well known for making high-end videos, such as tournaments in which participants compete for enormous cash prizes.
The YouTube influencer, who has over 233 million subscribers, expressed interest in finding out how profitable it would be to post on Elon Musk’s platform.
The 25-year-old posted a vintage video to YouTube titled “$1 Car vs. $100,000,000 Car,” which contrasts expensive luxury cars.
It received 124 million views in three days, bringing in $263,355 (£207,214).
“However, it’s somewhat of a front,” MrBeast said to his 26.6 million X fans. “Advertisers saw the attention it was getting and bought ads on my video (I think) and thus my revenue per view is prob higher than what you’d experience.”
The celebrity has now promised to donate the money made from the ads, so ten randomly selected fans will each get £20,000.
Musk has been trying to persuade X users to subscribe to a premium service by offering them a cut of the revenue from advertisements.
However, MrBeast had hinted at the end of December that he was hesitant to post his videos on the social media platform.
He had stated at the time that “my videos cost millions to make and even if they got a billion views on X, it wouldn’t fund a fraction of it.”
Videos on YouTube can sustain a healthy number of views for weeks at a time, but content on X tends to lose steam because its algorithms favor more recent content.
