The Portuguese footballer, who launched his YouTube channel on August 22, gained nearly 56 million subscribers in ten days. He now hopes to become the most followed channel on the platform and dethrone MrBeast.
A subscriber war has been declared between footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and American YouTuber MrBeast. At the heart of the conflict is the title of the most followed channel On YouTube.
Because if the American influencer has dominated YouTube since last June, with his 313 million subscribers, the Al-Nasr player is planning to take the crown from him. During a press conference held on Monday, September 2, Cristiano Ronaldo revealed that he hopes to surpass MrBeast in terms of subscribers on YouTube.
“MrBeast is the one I have to beat,” he said.
But the player made his ambition clear, explaining that he wants to outperform MrBeast within the next two years.
Records in spades
It seems that the Portuguese star player is on the right track. Indeed, he was the one who decided that Launch your channel On August 22, he quickly set the first record by reaching 1 million subscribers in just 1 hour and 30 minutes.
In less than 24 hours, more than twenty million subscribers joined Cristiano Ronaldo's channel. This is unprecedented in the history of the streaming platform. The previous record holder was none other than… MrBeast.
Since then, nearly 56 million users have subscribed to the footballer's profile. Despite this rapid rise, Cristiano Ronaldo is not ready to overtake the content creator. More than 257 million subscribers still separate the two channels.
While waiting to beat MrBeast, the Portuguese player has already beaten one of his biggest fans: the iShowSpeed streamer. The content creator was live when he learned that his idol had surpassed him in YouTube subscribers. “Oh my God, he did it in one day, he surpassed me in one day! No one can stop him,” he said live on Twitch.
