MrBeast 500M subscribers celebration
MrBeast went live to celebrate reaching 500 million subscribers and shared an encouraging message for anyone who's feeling hopeless. He said, "I want to say that I shouldn't be who I am... I shouldn't have a half billion subscribers... I didn't grow up with much... it's funny the more famous I've become, the more I realize how little any of it matters if you don't have people who care about you.
Transcript (en)
You guys are trolls. You guys are such trolls. Ha ha ha. Go ahead. See, this is what I'm saying. I knew this was going to happen. Because when I live streamed myself hitting 100 million subscribers, you guys did this nonstop. You guys like borderline tortured me. I get it. I know. Bro, we were 4,000 subscribers off. Now we're 15,000 off. Ha ha ha. So funny. So funny. You guys are hilarious. We're so close. Wait. 3,000 off? Wait. We're about to hit it. We're about to hit it. What? Whoa. There we go. 500 million subscribers. Half a billion. Confetti. Woo. Confetti. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, team. 500 million. Guys, this is freaking insane. I don't. I. Wow. So I want to just say something because while I have your guys' attention, there's a big milestone. I want to say this. I want to say that I, you know, I shouldn't be who I am right here. Like I shouldn't have, you know, half a billion subscribers. Like statistically I shouldn't, you know, I, I didn't grow up with, with much, you know, it's funny, the more famous I become, the more people are like, Oh he had a rich family or blah blah That why I gave away money Like both my parents were in the military and you know they uh we ended up going bankrupt back in 2008 in the financial crisis and like when i started this channel i i couldn't afford equipment i would have to save up money from my adsense to buy a microphone or computer like i really shouldn't be where i am today like it doesn't make sense that i have 500 million subscribers like i i it's not like i grew up in hollywood or i grew up in new york i grew up in a very small town with no money no resources but i was just relentless you know and and i got lucky i found what i loved at a really young age i found youtube at the age 11 and i gave it my all and i woke up every day and i asked myself how can i make the best videos possible holy crap we gained 64 000 subscribers thank you guys and i woke up every day and i and um i just like i just want to take this moment to inspire some of you because you know if you don't like the the position you're in, hopefully, you know, this could, you know, give you the fire to try something out. I mean, it's, it was a lot, it was a lot of work to get to this point. I mean, they say it takes 10,000 hours to master something. I think 10,000 hours is too little. I think it takes 100,000 hours to master something. And I'm like, probably 60 70,000 hours deep on making YouTube videos, you know what I mean? Like 10 hours every day for, you know, 15 years. So I don't know, hopefully, this just inspires you guys because it i i shouldn't be mr beast i shouldn't have half a billion subscribers i just shouldn't
