The famous American YouTuber ‘MrBeast’, who has the world’s largest number of subscribers among individual YouTubers, rejected Elon Musk’s offer to upload a video to X (formerly Twitter).
On the 31st of last month (local time), Mr. Beast posted on his The video posted by Mr. Beast on YouTube that day was about living in solitary confinement for 7 days without a cell phone.
To his post, Dogecoin’s UX/UI designer replied, “Post it here (X) too,” and Elon Musk also added a sympathetic reply, saying, “Yeah.”
In response, Mr. Beast said, “My video costs millions of dollars to produce. He flatly refused, saying, “Even if X reaches 1 billion views, we won’t be able to recoup even a portion of the production costs.”
Mr. Beast However, he said, “Once it becomes possible to generate profits in earnest, I plan to upload it to X as a test.”
In fact, it is known that there is a big difference in the profits that creators can earn on YouTube and X.
Currently, X only allows users who subscribe to its premium subscription service to generate posting and advertising revenue. According to the New York Post on the 1st, one of the operators of the ‘LifeMathMoney’ account, which has 370,000 followers on
On the other hand, on YouTube, if a creator with certain qualifications records 1 million views, it is known to generate a minimum of $3,400 (approximately 4.39 million won) and a maximum of $30,000 (approximately 38.77 million won) in revenue.
Meanwhile, Mr. Beast had 225 million subscribers as of December last year. He is so popular in Korea that he ranked first in the ‘2023 YouTube Korea’s Most Popular Creators’ list compiled by Google Korea based on subscribers from January to October last year.
Kim Ye-seul,
Source: Donga
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