MrBeast has just uploaded a video from 2015 that was addressed to himself 10 years in the future, hoping that he had a least a million followers.
In the three-minute video from 2015 that a then 17-year-old MrBeast scheduled to post to his YouTube account in 2025, the teenage version of one of YouTube’s most popular personalities wondered what his life would be like.
“Hi, me in ten years," he begins. Then he starts to muse: "Dude, what if I’m dead? That’d be so weird. RIP."
“Dude, if I don’t have a million subscribers when you see this video, my entire life has been a failure,” he adds. “I hope I have a million subs.”
The 2015-era MrBeast continues wondering about his future and whether he’ll still enjoy YouTube after college.
“I’ll probably be doing YouTube as a full-time job,” he says.
The video appears to be real, as the 2015 version of MrBeast pointed the camera at his screen to show the year, his 8,726 subscribers, and a total of 1,830,631 views.
Today, it's clear that MrBeast crushed his teenage expectations. As of this writing, he has 443 million subscribers on YouTube. He not only has a net worth that’s estimated at $1 billion, but he’s also been recognized as one of the most influential digital creators by Time Magazine thanks to his videos, his game show, and his business moves.
MrBeast is more in the public eye than ever because of his YouTube videos — and is not always for positive reasons. One of his latest videos, “Would You Risk Dying For $500,000,” has upset viewers for the wild and seemingly dangerous situation that he put a stuntman in.
In the video, a stuntman struggles through seven wild challenges, such as going through a flaming obstacle course and a 50-foot free climb while a friend is chained to him. In the comments section, as people roasted him about what looked like extremely dangerous stunts, MrBeast responded on X to let everyone know they were overreacting.
“If you’re curious obviously we had ventilation for the smoke and a kill switch to cut off the fires,” said MrBeast. “We had professionals test this extensively and the guy in the video as stated is a professional stunt man. I take safety more serious than you could ever imagine.”