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"50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000"
The video's thumbnail on YouTube. Donaldson is pictured in the center with various other YouTubers.[note 1]
Produced byJimmy Donaldson
Release date
  • July 13, 2024 (2024-07-13)
Running time
41 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

"50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000" is a YouTube video by American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known on the platform as MrBeast. The video, described by Donaldson as his "biggest video ever" featured fifty YouTubers from around the world competing to stay inside a large glass cube for as long as possible while completing challenges.[1] It got over 70 million views in 24 hours making it his most viewed video in that time frame and was sponsored by Samsung.

Background

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Donaldson overtook T-Series as the most subscribed YouTube channel on June 2, 2024, and 38 days later his YouTube channel became the first to reach 300 million subscribers, gaining 28 million subscribers in June 2024.[2] He described the video as new "biggest video ever" with the previous holders including "$456,000 Squid Game in Real Life!" (2021), "100 Kids Vs 100 Adults For $500,000" (2022) and "Every Country On Earth Fights For $250,000!" (2023).[2] MrBeast posted a picture of him with the YouTubers on June 5, 2024, on Twitter and also posted a list of the YouTubers featured in the video before deleting it.[3] Included in the video were three creators from France, several Spanish-speaking YouTubers and CarryMinati from India.[4][5][6]

Production

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MrBeast provided the YouTubers with business class flights and a layover to Raleigh–Durham International Airport which is about two hours from the filming location of Greenville, North Carolina.[7] Each YouTuber received gifts such as AirPods Pros and chocolate as well a shirt with their names on the front and their approximate subscribers on the back.[7][5] The video was sponsored by Samsung with the Samsung Galaxy Ring being used to take YouTuber's heart rates and the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 being used to monitor them in the fourth challenge.[2]

Video

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Mark Rober and JiDion are the first YouTubers be eliminated after failing to make basketball shots to win a subscriber of theirs a cyber truck.[8][5] In the second challenge the YouTubers must cut dalgonas as seen in the Netflix show Squid Game.[5][8] Challenge three was a game of Jenga.[7] The fourth challenge was a "steal or no steal" briefcase challenge.[8] The fifth challenge is to cook for judges Joey Chestnut, Miranda Cosgrove and IShowSpeed.[8] Logan Paul accidentally eliminates himself by leaving the cube during this challenge.[8] The final challenge was about figuring which of the five remaining contestants had the million dollar briefcase in a "game of bluff".[8][9] YouTube animator Jaiden Animations won the cash prize which she intends to use to send a portion of her subscribers to art school.[9]

Contestants

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Name Country Subscribers Status
Jaiden Animations  United States 12 million Winner
Alexandra Botez  United States/ Canada 1 million[a] Runner-up
Amixem [fr]  France 8 million
Nick DiGiovanni  United States 16 million
Ludwig  United States 5 million Eliminated (Challenge 6)
SpriteDer SPD [th]  Thailand 14 million Eliminated (Challenge 5)
Rubius  Spain/ Norway 12 million[b]
Logan Paul  United States 23 million Self-eliminated
Aj Shabeel  United Kingdom 1 million Eliminated (Challenge 5)
Kai Cenat  United States 7 million
Marques Brownlee  United States 18 million Eliminated (Challenge 4)
Valkyrae  United States 4 million
Sushi Ramen Riku  Japan 8 million
Niko Omilana  United Kingdom 7 million
Quackity  Mexico 6 million
LazarBeam  Australia 21 million
Sam  United States 12 million[c]
Enaldinho  Brazil 36 million Eliminated (Challenge 3)
CarryMinati  India 42 million
Ibai  Spain 11 million
Spreen  Argentina 7 million
Deestroying  Costa Rica/ United States 5 million
Andrea Botez  Canada 1 million[a]
Michelle Khare  United States 4 million
Jesser  United States 19 million
Amine [fr]  France 1 million
MoistCr1TiKaL  United States 15 million
Jacksfilms  United States 4 million
KwakTube [ko]  South Korea 1 million
TheOdd1sOut  United States 19 million
Bella Poarch  United States 7 million
Vikkstar  United Kingdom 7 million
Chunkz  United Kingdom 3 million
KSI  United Kingdom 16 million[d]
Sketch  United States 0.5 million[e] Eliminated (Challenge 2)
Mastu [fr]  France 6 million
Pokimane  Canada/ Morocco 6 million
Jschlatt  United States 1 million[f]
MatPat  United States 19 million
Lexi Rivera  United States 16 million
Ossy Marwah  Saudi Arabia 7 million
Fede Vigevani  Uruguay/ Mexico 50 million
Michael Reeves  United States 7 million
FaZe Rug  United States 26 million
Colby  United States 12 million[c]
LilyPichu  United States 3 million Self-eliminated
Nil Ojeda [ca]  Spain 4 million Self-eliminated
Ryan Trahan  United States 16 million Eliminated (Challenge 1)
JiDion  United States 7 million
Mark Rober  United States 50 million

Release and reception

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The video was released on July 13, 2024, and is over 40 minutes long.[7][1] The video became Donaldson's most viewed video in its first 24 hours with over 70 million views and almost broke the record for 24 hour viewership held by the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer in December 2023 with 93 million views.[2] Additionally videos that YouTubers made about the MrBeast video became popular including videos by Logan Paul, Pokimane and FaZe Rug as well as a Jschlatt video recorded on an "old school" camera.[2]

Joshua Cohen of Tubefilter described the "sheer amount of coordination and gravitational pull" that Donaldson had to get the creators to add the video to their production calendars as "incredibly impressive".[2] Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos said that it was an experience that he would "obviously repeat" but that the Spanish-speaking YouTubers were not featured as much as their American counterparts due to them being "insignificant" in comparison to them.[1] South Korean travel YouTuber KwakTube [ko] told the Maeil Business Newspaper that he found it "hard to get to know each other".[7]

Notes

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  1. ^ Top to bottom from left column: Fede Vigevani, CarryMinati, IShowSpeed, KSI, Pokimane, Logan Paul, Lexi Rivera, Mark Rober and Kai Cenat.
  1. ^ a b Subscribers on shirt based on collective channel (BotezLive).
  2. ^ Subscribers on shirt based on second channel (Rubius Z) rather than main channel (elrubiusOMG) which had 40 million subscribers.
  3. ^ a b Subscribers on shirt based on collective channel (Sam and Colby) rather than individual channels (Sam Golbach and Colby Brock) which had 2 and 3 million subscribers respectively.
  4. ^ Subscribers on shirt based on second channel (JJ Olatunji) rather than main channel (KSI) which had 23 million subscribers.
  5. ^ Subscribers on shirt incorrectly stated that he had 5 million subscribers.
  6. ^ Subscribers on shirt based on second channel (jschlatt) rather than main channel (jschlattLIVE) which had 4 million subscribers.

References

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  1. ^ a b c José Gómez, María (July 24, 2024). "Cómo fue el bizarro experimento social de MrBeast con 50 influencers y un millón de dólares" [How was MrBeast's bizarre social experiment with 50 influencers and a million dollars]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on July 28, 2024. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Cohen, Joshua (July 15, 2024). "MrBeast crosses 300 million YouTube subscribers. He gets 50 of the top creators in the world to compete for $1 million to (kinda) celebrate". Tubefilter. Archived from the original on July 28, 2024. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
  3. ^ Brigstock, Jake (June 6, 2024). "Who are all the influencers in MrBeast's 'biggest video ever'?". Indy100. Archived from the original on June 7, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  4. ^ "Invités par Mr Beast, Amixem, Amine et Mastu en lice pour faire gagner un million de dollars à leurs viewers" [Guests by Mr Beast, Amixem, Amine and Mastu competing to win a million dollars for their viewers]. 20 minutes (in French). July 10, 2024. Archived from the original on July 27, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d "Youtuber uruguayo Fede Vigevani compitió junto a Ibai y otros influencers en un reto por US$ 1 millón de MrBeast: este fue su resultado" [Uruguayan Youtuber Fede Vigevani competed with Ibai and other influencers in a challenge for US$ 1 million from MrBeast: this was his result]. El Observador (in Spanish). July 17, 2024. Archived from the original on July 27, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  6. ^ "Carryminati Collaborates With MrBeast For 'Biggest Video Ever', And The Fans Can't Keep Calm". Mashable India. June 6, 2024. Archived from the original on July 27, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d e Youngdouk, Bahng (July 14, 2024). "Travel YouTuber "Kwak Tube" (Kwak Jun-bin) has released a review of his participation in the survival program of YouTuber "Mr. Beast," which has the largest number of subscribers in the world". Maeil Business Newspaper. Archived from the original on July 28, 2024. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
  8. ^ a b c d e f "JaidenAnimations wins MrBeast's $1 million YouTube challenge, outlasting Logan Paul and KSI". The Express Tribune. July 14, 2024. Archived from the original on July 27, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  9. ^ a b Loftus, Rikki (July 15, 2024). "MrBeast has 50 YouTubers battling against each other to win $1,000,000 in his 'biggest video ever'". UNILAD Tech. Archived from the original on July 29, 2024. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
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