50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000

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"50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000"
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The video's thumbnail on YouTube. Donaldson is pictured in the center with various other YouTubers. [note 1]
Produced by Jimmy 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 received over 70 million views in 24 hours, making it his most-viewed video in that time frame, and was sponsored by Samsung.

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Background

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

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

Mark Rober and JiDion were the first YouTubers be eliminated after failing to make basketball shots to win a subscriber of theirs a Cybertruck. [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 was to cook for judges Joey Chestnut, Miranda Cosgrove and IShowSpeed, the latter of whom was originally set to compete in the video. [8] Logan Paul accidentally eliminated himself by leaving the cube to smash a plate during the challenge. [8] The final challenge was about figuring out 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

NameCountrySubscribersStatus
Jaiden Animations Flag of the United States.svg United States12 millionWinner
Alexandra Botez Flag of the United States.svg United States/Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada1 million [lower-alpha 1] Runner-up
Amixem  [ fr ]Flag of France.svg France8 million
Nick DiGiovanni Flag of the United States.svg United States16 million
Ludwig Flag of the United States.svg United States5 millionEliminated (Challenge 6)
SpriteDer SPD  [ th ]Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand14 millionEliminated (Challenge 5)
Rubius Flag of Spain.svg Spain/Flag of Norway.svg Norway12 million [lower-alpha 2]
Logan Paul Flag of the United States.svg United States23 millionSelf-eliminated
Aj Shabeel Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom1 millionEliminated (Challenge 5)
Kai Cenat Flag of the United States.svg United States7 million
Marques Brownlee Flag of the United States.svg United States18 millionEliminated (Challenge 4)
Valkyrae Flag of the United States.svg United States4 million
Sushi Ramen Riku Flag of Japan.svg Japan8 million
Niko Omilana Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom7 million
Quackity Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico6 million
LazarBeam Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia21 million
Sam Flag of the United States.svg United States12 million [lower-alpha 3]
Enaldinho Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil36 millionEliminated (Challenge 3)
CarryMinati Flag of India.svg India42 million
Ibai Flag of Spain.svg Spain11 million
Spreen Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina7 million
Deestroying Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica/Flag of the United States.svg United States5 million
Andrea Botez Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada1 million [lower-alpha 1]
Michelle Khare Flag of the United States.svg United States4 million
Jesser Flag of the United States.svg United States19 million
Amine  [ fr ]Flag of France.svg France1 million
MoistCr1TiKaL Flag of the United States.svg United States15 million
Jacksfilms Flag of the United States.svg United States4 million
KwakTube  [ ko ]Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea1 million
TheOdd1sOut Flag of the United States.svg United States19 million
Bella Poarch Flag of the United States.svg United States7 million
Vikkstar Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom7 million
Chunkz Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom3 million
KSI Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom16 million [lower-alpha 4]
Sketch Flag of the United States.svg United States0.5 million [lower-alpha 5] Eliminated (Challenge 2)
Mastu  [ fr ]Flag of France.svg France6 million
Pokimane Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada/Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco6 million
Jschlatt Flag of the United States.svg United States1 million [lower-alpha 6]
MatPat Flag of the United States.svg United States19 million
Lexi Rivera Flag of the United States.svg United States16 million
Ossy Marwah Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia7 million
Fede Vigevani Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay/Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico50 million
Michael Reeves Flag of the United States.svg United States7 million
FaZe Rug Flag of the United States.svg United States26 million
Colby Flag of the United States.svg United States12 million [lower-alpha 3]
LilyPichu Flag of the United States.svg United States3 millionSelf-eliminated
Nil Ojeda  [ ca ]Flag of Spain.svg Spain4 millionSelf-eliminated
Ryan Trahan Flag of the United States.svg United States16 millionEliminated (Challenge 1)
JiDion Flag of the United States.svg United States7 million
Mark Rober Flag of the United States.svg United States50 million

Release and reception

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

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 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.

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