Ah, MrBeast. Whether you love him, hate him, or merely continue to live your life with the knowledge that he is a person who exists, there’s no doubt that he has a ridiculously huge following. The YouTuber (whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson) is very well known on the internet for his super high-budget videos and extreme challenges.
Although he's published all sorts of different things, the video that probably first springs to mind for most people is his infamous Squid Game recreation (which was, at the time, accused of plagiarism). Published in November last year, MrBeast spent a whopping $3.5 million building arenas, recruiting willing participants, and fundraising a $456,000 prize, and the result is a tidy 227 million views, at the time of writing. Despite that, he claims to be working on something even bigger, which will be coming soon.
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On Twitter yesterday (10 March), after saying that fans can expect “two ginormous videos” this month, he also gave a teaser of what might be on the way later this year. “Give me a few months and I’m going to drop what will probably be our best video ever,” he wrote. “I have an idea that is bigger [than] our Squid Game video and so interesting/insane that I doubt it will ever be topped (Assuming we can pull it off haha).”
This isn’t the first that fans have heard of this supposed Squid Game successor. As reported by Dexerto, in an interview with fellow YouTuber Marques Brownlee last year, MrBeast was asked if he had any other grand video plans for the future, to which he said: “I want to take everything I learned from Squid Game and apply it to this other idea, but if I told you, I legit would have to kill you.”
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So, exciting times for MrBeast fans, I guess? Earlier this week though, he caused a bit of a stir after accusing TikTok of essentially spying on its users. The topic came up when he was speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and he explained that he felt as if the app had previously been listening in on conversations he’d been having. That’s not stopped him from posting on the platform, though - although you can’t really blame him for not wanting to lose an audience of 34 million.
Topics: Youtube