Rise and Fall: Most Subscribed YouTube Stars of all Time (2005 - 2022)

This video shows a timelapse of the most subscribed KZbinrs in history, between the years 2005 and 2022. It features the earliest KZbin Stars such as Brookers, Judson Laipply and Fred, and more recent KZbin channels such as PewDiePie, MrBeast and T-Series.
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[@alimurtaza6318]

When companies took over KZbin instead of individual creators.

[@ilect1690]

Mrbeast might take #2 eventually

[@DLAppleGamez]

@BTS_Good_Always Yeah, but he manages the channel himself, while other teams like Cocomelon, Set India, and T-Series have multiple people running the channel

[@alimurtaza6318]

@@seasonseason154 well even Mr beast has now transformed from individual creator to its own brand which I don't mind I think he is good and his work is really appreciated.

[@frzce]

@@DLAppleGamez what can be done, people like and subscribe them, pewds and other indivifual creators are gone, new kids dont even know them :) sad to see that but its alright

[@sauravrathi2799]

​@@DLAppleGamez Are you saying Mrbeast doesn't have a team?

[@animemui5626]

We went from most subscribed youtube personalities To most subscribed companies

[@EpicMalick]

Tbh Pewdiepie is still the most subscribed youtuber because the other ones ahead of him are just companies

[@EpicMalick]

@Rasgulla He only hires people or invites people to be in his videos not to have a job with him

[@EpicMalick]

@Rasgulla Nah they are just doing favors for him

[@EpicMalick]

@Rasgulla Please learn better

[@yesss6424]

​@@EpicMalick NOW ITS MR. BEAST

[@chasepayne3401]

Really shows the decline of individual creators and the use of corporations and content that generally lacks a soul

[@BoatPui]

Lol,yep,most of them are clickbait or crap nowadays,At least I try to be OG.

[@nemishsiddhapura3457]

Now you're having excuses... Cry out loud.... If needed I can provide you a Mike to cry

[@BoatPui]

@@nemishsiddhapura3457 ,chill,peace.

[@rome316ae3]

Mr beast the only creator which is growing

[@oLii96x]

But there are still lots of old school individual creators out there. These corporations with 50+ million subs can just spam out their content

[@tayzonday]

Wonderful job! This is definitely missing some people who deleted their channels (like Chris Crocker). Renetto was also in the top-5 subscribed for a brief period in 2006.

[@GlobalStats]

Thank you Tay!

[@jacobylamb2306]

Wait didn't you make chocolate rain the song does have some truth behind it not the comedy like racism is that true?

[@footballisthebest0]

@@GlobalStatswhy is there no tobuscus and michelle phan

[@Frogee8495]

@@footballisthebest0who?

[@dude...1009]

Ah hell nah, that was the most inaccurate shit I've ever watched@@GlobalStats

[@ErikCB912]

Gotta give a ton of credit to Smosh and nigahiga. They’re practically the pioneers of youtube, yet they remained on this list for over a decade. Also pretty impressive that they both were the most subscribed channel twice, both of which were in different eras of youtube. The site changed a lot from the late 2000s to the early/mid 2010s.

[@D_412]

they really changed youtube imo

[@jordancada]

Rwj as well

[@ErikCB912]

@@jordancada not nearly as impressive as the two channels I mentioned. He was only the most subscribed channel for around a year and he lost a good amount of subs for years after he stopped doing =3 in 2014. It took until around a couple of years ago for his channel to start gaining subs again due to him uploading shorts on his channel. Even nigahiga’s channel hasn’t lost that many subs despite not uploading in over 3 years. Credit to Ray for having the success he had, but he didn’t have nearly the impact or longevity that Smosh, nigahiga, and Pewdiepie had.

[@jordancada]

@@ErikCB912 he was number 1 for 18 months a year and a half

[@ToreOnYouTube]

Tre fact that PewDiePie sat on top for almost 10 years is crazy. In KZbin time, that really is a lifetime.

[@jakebutnotfromstatefarm6044]

Fr and he was so far ahead of the race aswell. I remember being super shocked at how fast tseries caught up and even then pewdiepie was still there just subscribed individual until late 2022. His dominance will never be seen again.

[@flameybox]

​@jakebutnotfromstatefarm6044 but mrbeast has a big team so pewdiepie is still number one individual.

[@ykd0011]

He was on top subed for 5 years, and not much on the list of top viewed

[@Necronlord2011]

@@jakebutnotfromstatefarm6044 T-Series is extremely sus tho have you seen their views? With that amount of subscribers, they make less views on a video than some channels with 10k subs, it's ridiculous really.

[@damiandamian4265]

​@@Necronlord2011Tseries also have videos with billions of views

[@Spazilton1]

I knew Jenna Marbles was popular but never knew she held #2 in subs for a short time.

[@hjewkes]

Its interesting how much the T-Series competition impacted Pewdiepies growth but not T-Series. They've had the same trajectory, which Pewdie lined up with for a few months, and then returned to his old rate of growth

[@thehawkseye3412]

Pewdipie used T series to get a push for his channel that was getting stagnant. T series is a music channel and movie production company. It's growth was natural and coincides with internet connection growth in India. But the racist hate that was hurled at Indians in name of this stupid race is something I will never forget.

[@DIscaIl]

@@thehawkseye3412 t series gets bots to sub thats why, they never earned those subs. i'de say not even 100k of their subs are from real people.

[@anushajain8198]

​@@DIscaIleven if they do what is the reason for hating on an entire nation?

[@birdman8899]

Bro the nostalgia this video brings and remembering all of the memories from these various creators and years really almost brought a tear to my eye. How times have changed man.

[@Melissaposs]

Hi

[@Premaire]

@@MelissapossHi!

[@shivam_nagar69]

T series graph is exactly like india's internet users growth graph

[@coolsgameandvideo1363]

That real

[@supportidxborgamer1623]

Because of Jio free data

[@megaascension2748]

Typically I watch smaller creators on KZbin, but I found this channel that had just hit one millions subs in March of 2018 through a funny video involving inflatable dinosaurs. I instantly subscribed. That was MrBeast. I never thought I'd stumble upon something like that on KZbin.

[@finleyhobbs8821]

I used to watch him when he made those reacting to cringe minecraft intro videos lol, don't watch him anymore though

[@user-bv8wr3vw4x]

7:44 The enemy has entered the chat.

[@Erner749]

Why does the graph of the growth of tseries look similar to covid

[@maksiono1488]

Idfk

[@thedachshundduo]

No one likes either…… that’s why lol

[@BreadIsOnRecroom]

Duh duh

[@amazing5476]

they are both hated

[@BlvckTogalu]

@@amazing5476 i like T-series

[@Apersonfarfaraway]

Pewdiepie’s sub growth along with many other big individual creators slowed after March 2014 due to an algorithm change, imagine if that never happened and he was still gaining like 1.5m subs each month for years. Also MrBeast is on his way to beating Cocomelon and SET India.

[@Pluto_is_a_planet273]

​@@flameybox bro tf are you on? T series is still 83 million subs ahead

[@flameybox]

​@@Pluto_is_a_planet273 STOP SWEARING!

[@footballisthebest0]

@@Pluto_is_a_planet273he said cocomelon and set india you blind or you think all indian channels are only tseries

[@ErikCB912]

Interesting because that’s around the time Susan became the CEO of KZbin.

[@ORALEEEEE]

Now, MrBeast has passed SET India. As of yesterday, MrBeast has reached 160M subscribers, and he is only 175k away from surpassing Cocomelon!

[@skymaster0yt]

I remember the Pewdiepie vs Tseries that was so good omg

[@thehawkseye3412]

You enjoyed all that chance to be racist and abusive to Indians as part of the mob? How lovely!

[@craftodude3267]

ikr

[@KeanoMUFC1]

KZbin is no longer "You", now it's "Them"

[@zenplays8090]

ThemTube?

[@Rumpled4SkinFU2]

I get what you're saying and 100% agree. It's not a platform for everyone anymore. There's too many creators now. Unless someone promotes you as a new content creator you will NEVER make it on KZbin.

[@bearstatistics]

Good video! You can tell you spend multiple hours on this :D

[@emir-nzl]

KZbin Ballon d'Or 2005:Smosh 2006:lonelygirl15 2007:Smosh 2008:Fred 2009:Nihaniga 2010: Nihaniga 2011:Ray William Jonhson 2012:Smosh 2013:PewDiePie 2014:PewDiePie 2015:PewDiePie 2016: PewDiePie 2017:PewDiePie 2018:PewDiePie 2019:T-Series 2020:MrBeast 2021:MrBeast 2022: MrBeast 2023:MrBeast

[@longknoll8065]

I'm so happy to see an update of this! This is some of my favourite content on KZbin. I have a few minor PewDiePoints which I imagine are victims of the resolution 1. PewDiePie beat Smosh to 12M 2. PewDiePie beat KZbin Spotlight to 20M 3. PewDiePie was not passed by T-Series in November 4. PewDiePie beat SETIndia to 110M 5. PewDiePie is probably closer to 112 than 111M at present (though maybe it's better not to guess)!

[@memerstats]

ye me too i love this channel

[@longknoll8065]

@@memerstats Oh hello Memer! Good to see you here. This reminds me of when I found Trainalytics debating someone in a comments section who was suggesting MrBeast did fake giveaways!

[@Superpowerguy11]

I love pewdiepie too!

[@johnyyy5671]

Ilovepewdiepie

[@rebeccakincy9463]

Well guess what not everyone likes PewDiePie

[@blueraven6693]

the way fred grew in 2008

[@DealthTheGreat]

from icarly

[@swgclips03]

2016 was the year in which KZbin became corporate. Luckily I didn't see that era, only the beginnings.

[@darealmate5297]

Same

[@swgclips03]

@@jchatz I'm not sure.

[@swgclips03]

Figure it out.

[@oatseawong6664]

That’s time of piracy contents

[@mikerueffer579]

bruh KZbin was heading that direction since 2011.

[@hprunputdownable]

Interesting video!

[@caterpillar34]

Can I ask what program you are using?

[@craftodude3267]

which site did you use to make a line/bar chart and see both of them?

[@luckythewolf2856]

Glad to have seen the yogscast rise into the chart at their peak. Miss the old days ❤

[@azizbekkhidiraliev4797]

Which program did you use bro??

[@AndersonNeo12]

Barely Political - The Key of Awesome 🤭 how times goes by. ps.: Great video. In the end those youtubers dind´t really "fall", they just got overtaken by bigger youtube channels. Obi Wan already said that: "there is always a bigger youtube channel" 😁

[@reineh3477]

Yep, all of them continued to grow but not fast enough.

[@reviewdata]

Cool, nice graph and bar, how can u do that, i ilke it.

[@ErikTheOkapiYT]

Amazing!!

[@dannyclub09]

Sad that the VEVO channels overtook everything else.

[@footballisthebest0]

now they are forgotten

[@gzgrabaciones]

Felicidades MrBeats, tienes para más.

[@huevitoconcatsu1014]

MrBeast es el unico youtuber individual que puede competir con esas grandes empresas de entretenimiento (T-Series, SET India, Cocomelon) Jimmy tiene muchas probabilidades de llegar al top 2 mundial, SET India y Cocomelon ya no crecen tanto como antes.

[@fubukifan6249]

Rest in peice all OG youtube creators soon this platform will have nothing but company's as most subscribed

[@Toast583]

Mrbeast desrves it

[@rome316ae3]

This is why we must subscribe to mr beast to make him no 1 to save KZbin from companies

[@tony123456789007]

Fred smosh and nigahiga killed the game of early stage youtube

[@LoritzN9229]

There are a lot of yt channels from my childhood in the video, I feel so nostalgic😭

[@CxickenRxce]

How did you make the line chart dynamic?

[@Nobody_idk]

How do you make these? do you use a website?

[@fawkewe]

This shows just how big of a deal Smosh was. There are known for being the first channel to reach 10 million subs but they were literally the first channel to reach 1,000 subs. Honestly i think none of this would be possible without them.

[@thedreamer4222]

These lists are all so messed up with companies, KZbinrs and musicians altogether

[@nonamesaretaken5616]

alternate title: watch the internet become a sadder place in 11 minutes

[@PEDALSnPROJECTS]

Cool graph

[@jankiller8799]

how do you do those graphics?

[@gamerj3626]

What’s this website or is this just on KZbin?

[@itzwolfiez]

can you tell me how you got the past subcounts pls?

[@devinsabeshan3378]

I want MrBeast to do what PewDiePie couldn't do

[@and69696]

Keep crying😂😂

[@FewLeafs]

@@and69696 mrbeast already catching up to t series so win win for mrbeast

[@infobell-9]

This is bcoz in 2017-18 internet became free in India before 2017 internet was very costly In India... That's why tseries growth is tremendous. Tseris vs pewds was like fire to a rocket.. Pewds some statements hurted ego of some Indians that's why they started subbing tseries😂😂. I hope all confusion is now finished 😇😂

[@ItsKaiOpinion]

Why did watching commercialization and capitalization eat what was once a pure form of self-expression, bring a tear to my eye..

[@isaaccollazo2874]

Mrbeast was helping pewdiepie pass t series no he himself gonna pass him 😂

[@Wald4267]

Smosh was like the beatles of our previous generation or two

[@toritoruuu]

Sometimes I honestly forget that Nigahiga used to be #1 for almost 2 years, and that's pretty good for the time that it happened.

[@lemueljr1496]

I've never understood how creators can have more subs than the populations of most countries and yet I've never heard of them, or if I have, I've never seen a video, and I feel like I watch KZbin more than anything else.

[@WhizzKid2012]

So you watch creators with less than 800 subscribers

[@lemueljr1496]

@@WhizzKid2012 Sure, because anyone who doesn't have 2M+ subs automatically has fewer than 800.

[@WhizzKid2012]

@@lemueljr1496 i mean that if a channel has more than 800 subs it has more people than 🇻🇦 which is a country

[@lemueljr1496]

@@WhizzKid2012 Yawn.

[@IamNotSe4N]

PewDiePie was so ahead of everyone it took years for them to catch up. MrBeast will probably leave everyone in the dust also

[@rulaibrahim5205]

10:04 A legend has entered

[@indiafirst3676]

7:43 T-Series starts climbing the peak

[@thedachshundduo]

Subbed to u

[@Zachariah_]

Companies don’t count though. Pewdiepie was king of KZbin from 2012-2022 when mr beast passed him this month. Mr beast probably wouldn’t have ever passed him if he hadn’t retired a year ago and moved to Japan…

[@HDSweet99]

Imagine if Pewds kept the war going with T Series

[@jackweber3660]

@@HDSweet99 it’s not possible, t series was using sub bots and gained subscribers at a rate only ever seen in quick flashes before. A funny, hard working, honest man is nothing in the face of a multi billion dollar company.

[@huevitoconcatsu1014]

@@jackweber3660 Bro, although T-Series is not to my liking either, we cannot say that I use bots, the reason for its rapid growth was the arrival and massification of the Internet in India, before 2015 the percentage of the Indian population with Internet access was very low, it was not until 2016 that the JIO company began to provide Internet access to Indians (a moment that coincides with the start of the unstoppable rise of T-Series and other Indian channels such as SET India) you can see this for yourself by watching that currently the fastest growing channels in the world are the Indian channels. Something similar occurs in Hispanic America, despite having almost 500 million inhabitants, less than half of the population has Internet access, that is, the percentage is also very low. If the internet were so accessible to everyone here, several Spanish-speaking channels would join the Indian ones in being the fastest growing channels.

[@rome316ae3]

I am pewdiepie fan , I would honestly say that mr beast would still surpass pewdiepie because the amount of views he gets is insane and his subs are rising

[@Zachariah_]

@@rome316ae3 Yah but peak pewdiepie was doing a lot better stats wise than mrbeast

[@ErikCB912]

2005-2012: primarily content creators 2013-2017: primarily VEVO/music channels 2018-present: primarily corporations

[@unsubscribetomepls575]

Time really flies in KZbin

[@purplehexagon]

Ray William Johnson has returned and he got YFM the cartoon band that he owns is back too he got lucky in shorts and nowadays uploads again.

[@flameybox]

Ray not ryan

[@purplehexagon]

@@flameybox probably auto correct

[@CuteCharolotte5678]

The First KZbinr To Hit 1,000 Subscribers Was Smosh

[@adityashah1353]

I think indian creaters can dominate this but many of them are inconsistent just like carryminati.

[@aadityaranjan2159]

@@oftui to tujhe kya hai? america ki population 33cr hai aur mrbeast ke subs 11 crore. kaam dhandha tere paas nahi hai baaki sab mehnat kar rahe hai.

[@x-bunny9995]

@@aadityaranjan2159 total gaming 😍

[@WhizzKid2012]

​@@aadityaranjan2159why u not use devanagari to write Hindi?

[@aadityaranjan2159]

@@WhizzKid2012 There is no way to type in devanagari on a laptop.

[@Thesmilingboi]

I want pewdiepie to grow fast like before

[@cheerios3219]

Yeah, well, the rest of the world doesn't

[@AIMDoesThings]

See, how do you find this information, I have searched everywhere, where do you find how much subscribers a channel has got from the start of their channel by each month or week or something like that, please help.

[@ErikCB912]

Social blade

[@regslime2411]

Its amazing how the channel FRED broke the record for the first yt channel to reach 1 million

[@outlaster_-1895]

Chills seeing Pewds and T-Series back and forth at one point knowing that i was a small piece in that history.

[@Areullekino]

One of the biggest let downs, everyone said pewds won to 100m but no t-series won

[@josephprado6113]

anyone know how these videos are made?

[@GreenTheori]

August 2005 - 2006: *early era* Febuary 2006 - January 2008 : *KZbin free for all wars* August 2008 - October 2009 : *Smosh vs nigahiga vs Fred* January 2011 - August 2012 : *Raw wiliam johnson - Nigahiga struggles* December 2012 - Semtemper 2013 *Smoosh era* March 2013 - 2014 *KZbin free for all wars 2.0* January 2014 - June 2018 : *PewDiePie The king* Semtemper 2013 - Febuary 2014 : *PewDiePie vs KZbin Spotlight* June 2018 - June 2019 : *PewDiePie vs T-Series War*😢

[@Gejokono]

I think it is unfair to see music artists and companies in a comparison of biggest youtubers. Technically they're youtubers but they're not KZbinrs

[@xJDMWaRRi0Rx]

I wonder how all the youtubers that got big and famous before you could really monetize and create a business out of youtube feel knowing they did it at the wrong time

[@hdizzly]

Or before the money making path was made clear. The story of Smosh is very sad with them being bought by a media company and only given shares. The company went on to collapse and they ended up totally normal money-wise despite being one of the biggest names ever on KZbin.

[@Kotor007]

I remember the great battle for the soul of youtube where everyone banded together to try and keep pewds on top. We ultimately lost the battle, but we stuck it to big corps in the process

[@tazinboor3913]

I don’t like pewdiepie. I think Jacksepticeye is a better version of him and he has no controversies attached, he should be the guy who has 111 million subscribers fr.

[@creativedeepfakes]

Fun fact: nigahiga channel still exists. Also, 6:49, you see there’s so many VEVO related channels. This is unusual to me how every single VEVO channel ever is on the top ten or twenty or whatever, and all of them have the same amount of subscribers! Can we investigate this? Did they use bottling program?

[@WhizzKid2012]

Too lazy to count? It's 15

[@mikecronis]

Subscribers isn't the same as views. Most people forget to Unsubscribe but stop watching the channel.

[@IkeReviews]

Yeah I get more views monthly than pink sheep and exploding tnt channels with millions of subs

[@youman5079]

Pewdiepie still remains our number 1 in our hearts

[@GlazyCat]

That's is true

[@Samueli2235]

In yours yes, but I wait till Mr.Beast overthrow PewDiepie soon, hard to compete with Indian labels, but who knows, mb he gets 3rd or 2nd placements

[@fasthacks3407]

Nah Fred

[@aw.army69]

Yes

[@bhagwaforever]

Father is still watching him (T series)

[@invisiblejuggernaut1285]

Look at the chart now, lions have took over the throne :O

[@pramodbichkule1017]

4:42 the entry of a legend PEWDIEPIE

[@Uzbek420]

PeewDiePie 😝😝

[@BigFatWedge]

0:13 Smosh becomes first with 1,000 subs 0:39 Brookers becomes first with 10,000 subs 1:11 Smosh becomes first with 100,000 subs 2:24 FRED becomes first with 1,000,000 subs 5:02 Smosh becomes first channel with 10,000,000 subs 8:56 T-Series becomes first channel with 100,000,000 subs

[@YouTube_Is_Sick]

8:35 This race is not for life, but for death was given to Indian films. My congratulations!

[@user-rw9xw9rs6h]

I miss smosh

[@video_head]

I used to watch Smosh all the time

[@Erner749]

Same but I was a bit late to the game

[@MrBallerinakaka]

Same But Not Anymore Now.

[@Youtube4life613]

I watched smosh since 2008 as an guest account back then

[@CoolBrosTube]

Correction: Fred actually didn't have subscribers until April 2008, when he uploaded his first video.

[@oyvi00i]

he started uploading in like 2006, for some reason, he deleted and re-uploaded them

[@CoolBrosTube]

@@oyvi00i if that was true, fred wouldn't gain that much subscribers in 2006. THAT MUCH SUBS TO EVEN ALREADY GET IN THE PODIUM-- but okay.

[@oyvi00i]

@@CoolBrosTube it is true, the guy says so himself

[@VasilevRu]

Сейчас 2022 год и ютуб захватили крупные проекты и детский контент, вытеснив блогеров.

[@TheGalaxyMapper]

Ты этому рад?

[@VasilevRu]

@@TheGalaxyMapper Нет.

[@YouTube_Is_Sick]

Ну по сути взяло вверх индийским сериалам.

[@fishson9487]

We can clearly see that Smosh went down drastically from 2017.😢

[@DivyankRaj.2409]

8:47 🤘🤘

[@pocketwatch5149]

it was sad to see PewDiePie raise and fall like so

[@SmileyYTGD]

do part 3

[@oyvi00i]

should do one of these without all corporate channels like t-series and music channels

[@rakeshmagar7628]

After few years indian labels will be 1st 2nd and 3rd or may be 4th and 5th position also Beacause indian channels are growing day by day

[@nowherer98]

People are saying they sub bot

[@rakeshmagar7628]

@@nowherer98 no india has a huge amount of population thats y indian channels are growing

[@GG-vu5nm]

T-Series is no longer at it's prime. MrBeast even grows faster than T-Series, SET India, Zee Music Company, Goldmines Telefilms, Sony Sab and some other 5 most subscribed Indian channels combined. With an insane growth of 271k per day.

[@rakeshmagar7628]

@@GG-vu5nm i m not indian i m nepalese n i m nt supporting india i just told the fact what is happening in yt industrie they growing fastet than another country

[@GG-vu5nm]

@@rakeshmagar7628 I did not ask anything about whatever country you're living in.

[@Bowiesway]

App name?

[@KuroyamaFuyuki]

4:41 and here is how the king appear!

[@LoganMighell]

Apr 2019 the day mebeast and PewDiePie fans cried

[@Wonderhorse9006]

When u realize in august 2022 everyone on the list is a company except pewdiepie (even mr beast)

[@ClodsireBeans]

idk jimmy is still like the main guy he just has multpile businesses and his videos still feel like human you know

[@Wonderhorse9006]

@@ClodsireBeans ye but he still a business, Justin Beiber is the main guy of the justin beiber channel but its still a business

[@nithyawarnakulasooriya3320]

Felix.. You're the best.❤

[@som4tvofficial2004]

Espera, me está contando que Cocomelon ha llegado al millón de suscriptores en 2013 y luego se decline

[@REDSKIs_righteous_readings]

Well this says alot about U tube n the platforms change in individual content to company based corporation it's sad .and I doubt it will ever change bk how unfortunate

[@_Veeru_bhai_]

6 vevo in line

[@fistandantalasmajere1671]

Kids Diana Show and Mr Beast had a battle there for a bit

[@DarkMerchantBabil]

ryan higa is true bait

[@yanou7076]

Wat app ?

[@gio7524]

Bro the Indians ain’t allowing no L’s bruh

[@SujalSakpal-dx5lt]

In 2017 T-Series came in the list thanks to Jio for Internet Revolution In India. Before Jio common peoples can't afford the Internet services because it is too expensive.

[@jackfloc0]

mrbeast growth so much in just 1 year💀

[@Kanjimanishandsome]

6:23 Pewdiepie: bye I’m floating into space 10:00 Pewdiepie: I didn’t made it😢