MrBeast Counted to 100,000. Then 500 Million Followed

The Story of MrBeast in 8 Minutes. On June 12, 2026, MrBeast became the first creator in history to reach 500 million subscribers, live in front of more than 600,000 people. Nine years earlier, he spent more than forty hours filming himself counting to 100,000. A kid from North Carolina, a channel nobody watched, Crohn's disease, the counting video, giving money away, Team Trees and Team Seas, Squid Game in real life, Feastables, Beast Games, the backlash and the lawsuits, and a five-billion-dollar company. The whole story, in 8 minutes. Told by Mr. Bigs. A new story every week: subscribe so you don't miss the next one. Chapters 0:00 Cold open: June 12, 2026 0:50 Act I · The Kid with the Camera 2:13 Act II · Counting to 100,000 3:22 Act III · Twenty Million Trees 4:31 Act IV · The Business 5:58 Act V · The Backlash 7:15 Act VI · Half a Billion 8:06 Epilogue Sources Wikipedia: MrBeast; Team Trees; Team Seas; Beast Games; Feastables Northeast Times: MrBeast hits 500 million subscribers (August 2026) Fortune: MrBeast net worth estimate (2026) Lawsuits are described as reported; the allegations are denied and no court has ruled on them. Photo credits (Wikimedia Commons) Tyren Redd, CC BY 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Tyren Redd, CC BY 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Leon Lush on YouTube, CC BY 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Fidias on YouTube, CC BY 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "greenzig", CC0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Steven Khan, CC BY 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Licences: CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... · CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... · CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Music "Raving Energy", "Pixel Peeker Polka - faster", "Take a Chance", "Rocket Power", "Cool Vibes", "Investigations", "Hitman", "Heroic Age" — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Illustrations are original. No MrBeast video footage is used. Narration voice generated with AI. Written and told by Mr. Bigs. #mrbeast #youtube #biography