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You've just uploaded your video to YouTube and now you're watching the view counter crawl upwards as the hours pass. Will this banger of a video finally be the one that breaks through? Will you get 100K views? Or (gasp!) will be the one that generates 1,000,000 views? You have visions of Adsense millions dancing 💃 in your head. Maybe this time you'll hit the jackpot and make a boatload of money while your subscribers and others enjoy your content. Maybe you'll see a record on your first day with the most views recorded in one day, but you think that Mr Moneybags, MrBeast probably has that record too. But, nope. Surprisingly, MrBeast DOESN'T have the video that has received the most views in 24 hours. He did, but then a new gunslinger showed up and stole his thunder. Below you'll find most of the videos that have the most first day views. The video with the most views was the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI (bet you forgot about that one, didn't ...

Break out the tin foil hats boys, because PewDiePie is unplugging from the Google mother ship. He's heading offline. He bought himself and Marzia and the various PewKiddos a cabin far away in the woods, off the grid where he plans on growing his own veggies, raising a couple of chickens and start enjoying the good life. Why the big change? Well, for those who like to keep track of such things... PewDiePie Is No Longer In The Top 10 WHAT?! When? How did this happen? Well, while Felix was living his life and doing Felix things as Felix likes to do, like learning how to draw over the last year or so, we were all co-opted and distracted into subscribing to other channels like MrBeast 's flashy content and other stuff (hey, now he's up to 409 million subs and marching ever closer to a billion). So PewDiePie has dropped out of the Top 10 Most Subscribed list. What's Felix's reaction? To decouple himself from Google and try to live a less scrutinized lifestyle withou...

Once again, the pitchforks are out, youtubers are out in force, and boy are they angry, and they're calling for MrBeast 's scalp or at the very least an explanation WTF he thinks he doing. Why, you may ask, because isn't Jimmy the beloved smiling face of YouTube from a content creator standpoint? Here's a quick video from OG Youtuber Phil DeFranco where he covers the main points. Well just like the sudden reputational downgrade Elon Musk experienced recently, Jimmy Donaldson, owner and the main driving force behind YouTube's Most Subscribed Channel (with more than 408 million subs) and it feels like MrBeast poked many youtubers in their collective eyes. MrBeast has apparently embraced the dark arts of artificial intelligence and has found a new way to monetize AI and he is offering you this gift (for the low, low price of your creative soul) and a mere $80 a month so you too can forgo forever the tedious challenges of creating you own thumbnails with software ...

If you use Adblocker to remove advertising from your video feed you watch on YouTube, the platform might just pull the rug out from under you, just stomp it's feet and go home. Or maybe it won't load on your computer, phone or whatever device used to view content. There's long been something of a push and pull between the YouTube user and the platform when it comes to the ads served up for the free patronage you as a viewer has enjoyed. For most, its almost like a love-hate relationship. Everyone loves the ad revenue but can barely tolerate seeing all the ads. Here's a video from one YouTube content creator, DeepHumor , who raises some concerns with what he sees YouTube rolling out as they strive to combat the pickle of user retention vs keeping or increasing ad revenue. DeepHumor is a longtime content creator having been uploading to YouTube for the last 7 years. He has generated 125,000 subscribers and posted 925 videos. He's put in the work, so his concerns n...

As of June 2025 there are currently 16 YouTube channels with at least 100 million followers. These are some astonishing totals especially when you consider that even ten years ago when Ray William Johnson's =3 channel hit 5 million subscribers many felt that the high water mark had been reached. Today Ray's channel has morphed into more of a "true crime" expose style channel and boasts a very respectable 18.4 million subscriber count. But Ray's days as "The Most Subscribed YouTube Channel" are long gone as today there are many channels which make his 18 million subs look like small fry. Not throwing shade his way as Ray likely appreciates being able to do his thing without the blinding glare he had to deal with circa 2010-2012. MrBeast's main channel just hit 20x Ray's current status and there are 15 others listed below that can claim to have at least 100 million subscribers with dozens more showing massive subscriber counts. The links b...

I don't think there is any personal animosity between Ray and Ryan and don't want to promote any ill feelings between the two. I've never asked one of them about the other (I don't know either personally) and I haven't seen any comment, good, bad or indifferent, made by either one about the other guy's numbers either. Both of their channels have their good and bad points, as well as fans who love everything they do. No doubt there are hundreds of thousands subscribed to both guys because they put out interesting content. All I'm saying is that there's nothing wrong with a little friendly competition. I don't think they will get into a pissing contest or anything (we used to have those at our family reunions. Grandma would always win, but that's a story for another time). I'm sure they are probably looking at each other's number of subscribers, but they're probably more worried about what they are going to post next week rat...

First off, TheWillofDC (aka William Hyde) isn't me, lol. He updates who is climbing the top 100 chart each week and who is slipping down the ranks. Will also talks VERY FAST, ala Michael Buckley (he used to do the "What The Buck" entertainment show on YouTube). Will would provide weekly updates of what was happening on the then relatively much smaller platform of YouTube way back in the OG days when there was no massive channels like PewDiePie or MrBeast and content creators had comparatively tiny numbers of subscribers. He stopped actively posting these informative videos around 2012 or so and I had watched regularly but I guess he decided it was time to move on. I think he worked at Maker Studios for a bit, but I'm unsure. Still, I was always a numbers guy and enjoyed seeing how many subs people had gained or lost. This video was posted in June 2010 but took a look back to June 2008, back when YouTube was just really beginning to explode. Real blasts from t...