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PewDiePie Was Right On What MrBeast Would Become...

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PewDiePie Saw What MrBeast Would Become

Years ago, PewDiePie warned that YouTube was becoming more corporate, more optimized, and less focused on individual personality, and MrBeast may be the clearest example of how far that shift has gone. This video looks at how MrBeast went from helping PewDiePie fight T-Series to building a massive content and business machine around huge productions, brands like Feastables and Lunchly, and constantly raising the stakes with every upload. The point isn’t that MrBeast “ruined” YouTube, but that he helped industrialize it in a way PewDiePie seemed to see coming years ago.

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20 Comments

@alexjustalexyt1144 2 weeks ago

Mrbeast is no longer a youtuber, he's a company.

@thomasgrace3465 2 weeks ago

Pewdiepie will always be the king of YouTube.

@zaheersarang6466 2 weeks ago

Pewds is living life. MrBeast is living corporate

@sinatr4h 2 weeks ago

Felix will always be the legit, genuine king of YouTube.

@rytheryguy 2 weeks ago

“You became the very thing you swore to destroy”

@MarkoZdr 2 weeks ago (edited)

He nailed it when he said that Youtube started rewarding optimisation over personality. Youtube and people like Jimmy saw the money that kind of clickbait vids can generate and got greedy and continued to create garbage, but if it lacks personality than it lacks substance. Pewds still does his own youtube with his family in Japan, enjoying simple vlogging, doing things that he truly enjoys like traveling with his family, visiting new places, drawing, building computers, etc., uploading on his own schedule and without any clickbait. And he has inspired alot of us who have been lucky to be on the journey with him, from a time where youtube was about "You".

@TurKlack 3 weeks ago

Felix is happy. Mr. Beast is addicted. His smile has no happiness anywhere. It's just a corporate tool.

@AL-he5pb 2 weeks ago

PewDiePie is European, MrBeast is American. That synthesises everything.

@extraalt 2 weeks ago

Mr.Beast never gave a F about pewdiepie, he just wanted his audience

@hollowroxas4742 2 weeks ago

“They called me a madman. And what I predicted came to pass.”

@johnstory8083 2 weeks ago

Pewds has earned his privacy. He went through the trials and did the publicity. He stayed true to who he was and realized where his path was. And didn't chase. He was so popular because he is so charismatic and a genuinely good person.

@PedroDelgado724 2 weeks ago

I remember Mr beast in his early days saying he didnt like when content looked super polished because it didnt feel genuine now his content is the most polished content on YouTube

@sumyungguy2608 2 weeks ago

Pewdiepie will be the last true top youtuber this platform will ever create. It's never going to be the same again. The top will be filled with companies rather than just 1 youtuber with an editor

@Diazetate 2 weeks ago

I feel like Mr.Beast was a big reason why gambling has become prevalent again. Hes not the only resason but his content aimed at younger kids showing off money and promoting dangerous content that could get you money.

@zackblack8118 2 weeks ago

He never really “helped” pewds with Tseries he just farmed his subscribers through Pewds jumping on opportunity. His mind was still “calculating “ the stats as he said.

@TommyCollins93 12 days ago

Some people might say "if PewDiePie was young and still growing channel, he would do the same as mr. Beast"
No. The truth is he was in similar situation long time ago, when he almost got captured into the corporate machine. They wanted to make kind of a reality show called "Scare PewDiePie", where they would put him in dark rooms, spooky settings, just so he could pretend he's scared and he would be screaming and that would produce views. He backed off from that project as he finished making season one. He felt it's forced and it's not the way he want to go further in his career. He knew that's not what the entertainment is about and returned to his usual content.

@berkaykurkcu 2 weeks ago

Teaming up with KSI and Logan Paul at the SAME TIME is the biggest red flag ever.

@Zybran93 2 weeks ago

12:33 I guess the fact that pewds never scaled higher to chase the bigger number, made him able to just quit when he wants to, all these other number chasing YouTubers build up so much and invested so much that they need to capitalize it for another couple years to get away from it. They can't just stop everything, they need to close deals, companies, fire thousands of employees etc. they build a company out of themselves and now can't leave it, trapping them in the cycle

@jcreativespace8162 3 weeks ago

Ive been saying this too for so long and ppl just thought I was bitchy and no fun. Glad ppl are finally seeing it now.

@Mitchthemysteryman 12 days ago

I am glad pewdiepie has matured. He is a wholesome dude who made mistakes, but was honest about it, and was probably the last number one tuber who was HUMAN.