The official YouTube account said: “Where have you been in the past two weeks??”
Popular internet star MrBeast recently announced that he would be quitting YouTube and “now posting full-time on X.” The development has left fans and supporters of the YouTuber, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, confused. Many expected this to be an April Fools’ prank. Reacting to the news, billionaire Elon Musk replied to his post on X (formerly Twitter) and said: “You actually should”.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 1, 2024
Since being shared, Mr Donaldson’s post has received more than 17 million views and 1.6 million likes. After MrBeast announced this decision, many Internet users were shocked.
“Brother, aren’t you really the best YouTuber in the world? I wake up every morning praying that you upload a new YouTube video. The days you upload are the best days of my life. When I get the notification I put on my Mr. Beast shirt, grabbed a hearty meal from the cupboard, poured myself a glass of milk, and watched your latest video several times. Please reconsider this Mr. Beast, I really Love you so much,” one user said.
The official YouTube account responded to his post and said: “Where have you been in the past two weeks??”
“Today is April 1st, isn’t it?” one person said.
One person added: “I was almost taking this seriously and then I realized it’s April 1st.”
One person wrote: “I was almost taking this seriously then I realized today is April 1st.”
“Thank God, Mr. Least. Maybe now you can finally leave your aunt’s basement and get a real paying job,” said another.
In January this year, MrBeast “directly” uploaded a video on Elon Musk’s Weibo platform, which received 161 million views within eight days. The video was shared widely on the platform by Mr Musk and X chief executive Linda Yaccarino. The internet celebrity said that he earned more than $250,000 (approximately Rs 2 crore) from one of his videos titled “$1 vs $100 million car”. However, the YouTuber calls the entire experience a “look.”
“My first video made over $250,000. But that was kind of superficial. Advertisers saw the attention it was getting and bought ads on my video (I think), so every time I watched Earnings may be higher than what you experience,” the YouTuber posted on X and shared a screenshot of his account analytics as evidence. According to the screenshot, he will earn $263,655 from the video. In another post, he wrote, “I will give $25,000 for fun to 10 random people who retweet this and follow me (my X video made $250,000).”
It’s worth noting that compared to YouTube, which only requires 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time in the previous year to qualify for monetization, users on X must pay $8 per month for Premium or $16 per month Premium+ fee to be profitable. Eligible for a portion of advertising revenue.
Initially, when Musk asked Donaldson to upload the video on the Weibo platform, he refused, saying that his video “costs millions of dollars to make” and that if he uploaded the video to X, the company would not fund “a fraction of it.” “cost.