The Portuguese football player, who launched his YouTube channel on August 22, has gained nearly 56 million subscribers in ten days. He now hopes to become the most followed channel on the platform and dethrone MrBeast.
The subscriber war has been declared between football player Cristiano Ronaldo and American YouTuber MrBeast. At the heart of the conflict, the title of most followed channel on Youtube.
Because if the American influencer has reigned supreme on YouTube since last June, with his 313 million subscribers, the Al-Nassr player plans to steal the crown. During a press conference granted this 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.
The player did, however, clarify his ambition, explaining that he wanted to surpass MrBeast in the next two years.
Records galore
And the Portuguese star player seems to be on the right track. Indeed, the one who decided to start your channel On August 22, it quickly set a first record by reaching one million subscribers in just 1 hour and 30 minutes.
In less than 24 hours, more than twenty million subscribers have joined Cristiano Ronaldo’s channel. 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 football player’s profile. Despite this meteoric rise, Cristiano Ronaldo is not ready to beat the content creator. More than 257 million subscribers still separate the two channels.
While waiting to overtake MrBeast, the Portuguese player has already beaten one of his biggest fans: the streamer iShowSpeed. The content creator was live when he learned that his idol had surpassed him in number of subscribers on YouTube. “Oh my God, he did it in one day, he surpassed me in one day! Nobody can stop him,” he said live on Twitch.