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

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@PuertoRicoforever]

@@footballisthebest0who?

[@dude...1009]

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

[@animemui5626]

We went from most subscribed youtube personalities To most subscribed companies

[@TheBacon2031]

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

[@TheBacon2031]

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

[@TheBacon2031]

@Rasgulla Nah they are just doing favors for him

[@TheBacon2031]

@Rasgulla Please learn better

[@yesss6424]

​@@TheBacon2031 NOW ITS MR. BEAST

[@Spazilton1]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@shivam_nagar69]

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

[@coolsgameandvideo1363]

That real

[@supportidxborgamer1623]

Because of Jio free data

[@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.

[@Мирич-з4е]

7:44 The enemy has entered the chat.

[@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?

[@noahniskala]

@@thehawkseye3412 He never ever intended it to be a war against Indians, that's legit one of the main reasons he ended it, he also ended it because it started to just get so stupid on legit a mass killer who killed 53 people saying to subscribe to PewDiePie which made him disgusted, he never wanted the war to be about nation vs. nation, race vs. race, this war was just a meme and it was generally wholesome but with such a big audience, some people took it to far and did terrible stuff, or people just didn't understand the distracts were all jokes and never to be taken seriously.

[@thehawkseye3412]

@@noahniskala Oh please! He squeezed it as much as he could. It ended when there was no more gas left. Racist attacks were there since day one and he only sobered up a bit when someone attacked a mosque and named him as inspiration. Not that it made much difference in insulting comments on Indians. They even attacked religious festival/event of Shivratri streaming- with abuses that kept coming.

[@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!

[@CraftoIsBloxdStats]

ikr

[@noahniskala]

@@thehawkseye3412 It was never about race vs race, that was never the reason for the meme, and all his distracks were all jokes and never to be taken literal, im truely sorry if you dealt with some rouge pewdiepie fans who were being rasict, but pewdiepie never wanted the war to be like that, and he even said that in the video where he ended the war because of a few awful things people did.

[@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

[@luckythewolf2856]

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

[@blueraventv]

the way fred grew in 2008

[@DealthTheGreat]

from icarly

[@indiafirst3676]

7:43 T-Series starts climbing the peak

[@thedachshundduo]

Subbed to u

[@dannyclub09]

Sad that the VEVO channels overtook everything else.

[@footballisthebest0]

now they are forgotten

[@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)

[@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

[@noahniskala]

@@rome316ae3 he still has a whole ass corporation behind him to make videos weekly, hes just another company on the list.

[@KuroyamaFuyuki]

4:41 and here is how the king appear!

[@nonamesaretaken5616]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@tony123456789007]

Fred smosh and nigahiga killed the game of early stage youtube

[@Mediogz]

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.

[@explorer4386]

T-Series, SET India, Zee music company, Goldmines 🇮🇳

[@GamesRfun-b5u]

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

[@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

[@CzechPigeon]

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*😢

[@theletterk]

fred only became active in april 2008, im assuming the creator of this vid added subs to make it look more natural - but he was at 25k in may 2008

[@LoritzN9229]

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

[@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.

[@pramodbichkule1017]

4:42 the entry of a legend PEWDIEPIE

[@Prithwirajsardar-f8yInd]

PeewDiePie 😝😝

[@thedreamer4222]

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

[@isaaccollazo2874]

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

[@reviewdata]

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

[@ErikCB912]

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

[@Zanebell101]

My thorey for why brookers was deleted was the adpocalypse

[@Wald4267]

Smosh was like the beatles of our previous generation or two

[@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 😇😂

[@cdfonyoutube]

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

[@YouTube_Is_Sick]

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

[@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.

[@Kanjimanishandsome]

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

[@Thesmilingboi]

I want pewdiepie to grow fast like before

[@cheerios3219]

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

[@gamerj3626]

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

[@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.

[@caterpillar34]

Can I ask what program you are using?

[@carissagehl9401]

When cocomelon starts running up me: "No! NO NO NO!

[@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.

[@ItsKaiOpinion]

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

[@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

[@youman5079]

Song at 4:48?

[@Rememberces]

You need help

[@youman5079]

@@Rememberces why?

[@Rememberces]

@@youman5079 who will want to listen to that song

[@youman5079]

@@Rememberces reminds me of call of duty campaigns that’s why😂

[@Rememberces]

@@youman5079 Lmaaaoo but seriously y ok 😁

[@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.

[@noahniskala]

@@tazinboor3913 that's your opinion, I believe PewDiePie deserves it and has worked hard for it, I don't think all the controversies should just be the reason he should not be a top creator, were also talking about a guy who pretty much created a era of lets plays and was a huge helper of helping jacksepticeye to grow.

[@tazinboor3913]

@@noahniskala Yeah, you’re right, I’m sorry. I had a lot of bottled up stress a while ago I think when I wrote that comment.

[@noahniskala]

@@tazinboor3913 ah, alright, its okay man.

[@tazinboor3913]

@@noahniskala Cool. ‘Thing is, my friend and I grew up watching Jacksepticeye instead of Pewdiepie, so I personally have more of a connection to Jacksepticeye rather than Pewdiepie.

[@54andBored]

Cool graph

[@MayJay-4w0j]

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

[@MayJay-4w0j]

@@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]

@@MayJay-4w0j it is true, the guy says so himself

[@Nobody_idk]

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

[@ashketchumsdad]

I never really watched his stuff, but seeing PewDiePie absolutely dominate the music channels and hold off the corporate stuff for so long is unbelievable

[@CraftoIsBloxdStats]

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

[@danigaming5764]

*geriatric 1927 has joined the chat* Message from july 2006 *geriatric 1927 has left the chat* Message from January 2009

[@TurkishYoung07]

Sad :(

[@danigaming5764]

​@@TurkishYoung07Yeah :(

[@CharlotteTheCat124]

The First KZbinr To Hit 1,000 Subscribers Was Smosh

[@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.

[@dimi7ry]

Here comes the villain: 7:44

[@Thegodgamer-ql8eh]

Mrbeast is goat.he’s the only person who’s doing good stuff that helps all of the people who are in need.❤all the other people are just making funny shorts that are edited.😢

[@Wonderhorse9006]

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

[@Da_Sire]

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

[@Wonderhorse9006]

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

[@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.

[@Simtrim657]

I watched smosh since 2008 as an guest account back then

[@vintaqelvsh_]

just now realizing my brother has the same birthday as ray william johnson..

[@jankiller8799]

how do you do those graphics?

[@regslime2411]

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

[@pocketwatch5149]

it was sad to see PewDiePie raise and fall like so

[@CxickenRxce]

How did you make the line chart dynamic?

[@LoganMighell]

Apr 2019 the day mebeast and PewDiePie fans cried

[@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

[@adi-vr]

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

[@LopHocDuaHau]

Hello, can you tell me how to get subscriber data to make Evolution videos?

[@joseperezjr1690]

It’s 2024 and I continue to watch Ray William Johnson! His new content are really entertaining

[@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.

[@Joshybabee]

Would LOVE a version of this without all of the vevo accounts, or stuff like t-series and KZbin spotlight. I mean like 2015-2020 is just them switching spots. I wonder want the actual KZbinrs were doing during these times.

[@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

[@gio7524]

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

[@unknown03510]

do part 3

[@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.

[@Legacy_of_Lagertha]

Felix.. You're the best.❤

[@GodRaysGuy]

bro ryanhiga was a classic back then sad to see the main channel collapse

[@ErikTheOkapiYT]

Amazing!!

[@belstar1128]

Looking at the top KZbinrs right now its really mind blowing how a guy born in 1927 talking about his life could have ever been number 1. back then the average KZbin viewer was a lot more highbrow. also notice how in the 2000s all top KZbinrs spoke English. but now its a mix of hindi Spanish korean Portuguese and others.

[@TheAlept]

Respect to holasoygerman

[@invisiblejuggernaut1285]

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

[@Bowiesway]

App name?

[@youlookingatme575]

Time really flies in KZbin

[@LuigiTheGodGamer567]

How does he do this, because I want to try this as well

[@BillyCollard2008]

Flourish

[@BillyCollard2008]

Website is called flourish

[@le_meme_man8983]

@@BillyCollard2008 Don't think this is flourish

[@BillyCollard2008]

@@le_meme_man8983 it is

[@fouly1981]

Indians have taken youtube they are everywhere 😜😝🤪

[@_Veeru_bhai_]

6 vevo in line

[@jackfloc0]

mrbeast growth so much in just 1 year💀