MrBeast Challenges T-Series To Compete With PewDiePie For Most YouTube Subscribers

After Pewdiepie, another popular YouTuber MrBeast has challenged Indian music company T-Series to the top of the platform. MrBeast has the second most subscribers after the T series. He is competing to become the YouTuber with the most subscribers worldwide.

MrBeast took to Elon-Musk-owned microblogging platform Twitter (Now X) and wrote: “I’m doing this for Pewdiepie.” He posted a picture showing the YouTube subscriber counts of both T-Series and MrBeast.

According to the image, music company T-Series had more than 247 million subscribers, while American content producer MrBeast had more than 173 million subscribers. Looking at the numbers, it looks like displacing the T-Series from the #1 spot won’t be easy for MrBeast.

A few years ago, PewDiePie, the channel of Swedish YouTuber Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, battled T-series for the top spot on YouTube for almost a year. The T-Series vs PewDiePie competition ran from August 29, 2018 to April 29, 2019.

Interestingly, PewDiePie was featured in MrBeast’s recent video. MrBeast tweeted: “Our video coming out on Saturday features PewDiePie and Sidemen”.

At the same time, YouTube has announced that it is testing improvements to the layout of channel pages.

“We’re starting to test changes to content creators’ channel pages that don’t show tabs like ‘Playlists’ in cases where those tabs don’t have content,” the company said on its “YouTube Testing Features and Experiments” page. “We are also testing the better use of the information in the Information and Channels tab by updating the appearance of the channel page.”

The company is currently testing this with a limited number of viewers. Last month, the platform introduced an experimental feature that allows users to easily watch videos at double speed.

This feature allows users to long press anywhere on the player while watching a video, which automatically increases the playback speed by 2x.