I'm Mr Beast and this is the Wired Autocomplete interview. Let's see what weird things you guys Google about me. I actually don't Google myself much, so I have no idea what's about to pop up.
Okay, board number one. Why is Mr Beast named Mr Beast? I wish I had a better story to tell you guys, but when I started an Xbox Live account many, many years ago, when I was a little kid, it autofilled the name as Mr Beast 6000.
Eventually, I dropped the 6000 and it's how I got Mr Beast. What is Mr Beast's logo supposed to be? I don't really know.
I guess it's kind of like a tiger. I'll be honest. I mean, even though that logo's probably been seen 100 billion times, I actually put very little thought into it when I was a little kid.
I just kind of designed a tiger and here we are. My name, my logo. Probably should have had more thought behind it.
I'll admit it. Why does Mr Beast change his thumbnails? That's a good question.
So, what they're referring to is sometimes we'll upload a video with the thumbnail and then if you check the video a month later, it will have a different thumbnail. The answer is I just never know how to thumbnail our videos cuz sometimes we'll do something crazy like world's fastest man versus a cheetah. How do you show that in a thumbnail?
cuz there's like a hundred different ways you can make a thumbnail of a man running against a cheetah. You could do like a side profile shot. You could do a frontal shot.
And so a lot of it is me just like secondguessing myself and being like, I don't know if this thumbnail is the best or maybe we change this angle. And my thumbnail team probably hates me because I just like change my mind all the time and constantly change the thumbnails. Thumbnails are important, but what is ultimately most important is that you just make great content.
How does Mr Beast get his contestants? Typically, we have this uh Instagram page that I promote on my Instagram stories all the time called Mr Beast Casting. Uh it has the verified check mark and then we just source a lot of our contestants through there.
All right, we got another one. Mr Beast first video. Well, if you go to my channel, you can set it to oldest and you will see that my first video is actually I recreated saw in Minecraft.
I was a little kid with a hand-me-down laptop from my brother that I kind of like stole. I load up Minecraft and I'm just building like I built this big box and then I put like some little like pigs from there in there and then built like mini uh weird saw traps and I was just like look at this funny weird thing I made and it was yeah no one watched it or cared. The thing is if you watch uh a piece of content you made six months ago and you don't see a lot of things that could be improved then you're probably not constantly improving and evolving.
And so for me there there is no such thing as a perfect video. Things can always be better, the pacing or the editing or you know even the coloring, the lighting, the there there is no perfect piece of content. And so I think until the day I die, I will always look at whatever I filmed 6 months prior and you know see the flaws and think it could be improved.
Does Mr Beast respond to DMs? I'll just be blunt. I probably get over 100,000 DMs a day.
So, I I do respond to maybe a couple here and there a month, but if you DM me, the odds of me replying to you are probably lower than a shark falling from space and eating you. So, maybe just don't waste your time. Mr Beast off camera.
That's me right here. Uh, it's actually partially why I'm excited to do this. My videos have gotten so big and sometimes they revolve around the contestants and not me.
And a lot of people feel like they they don't know me anymore or really get to hear me talk. And it was pretty eye opening. I uploaded a video on my second channel um where I reacted to a video called Hi Me in 10 years and it was just me talking and like the top comment on my video was like wow it's very refreshing to see Jimmy just being himself and it had like 30,000 upvotes and I was like dang I should do more chill things you know because everything I do is like bigger bigger bigger higher stakes higher stakes and it seems like right now a lot of uh people who watch my content or fans whatever you want to call them just want to see more raw me and so yeah hopefully People don't have to Google Mr Beast off camera.
They can just see me in situations like this. What does Mr Beast do with his money? Depends on the week.
One week we're burying me alive for a video. The next week we are, you know, building 100 wells in Africa. Jokes aside, I spend most of my money on our YouTube content.
Could be literally anything. If you scroll through my channel, it's a bunch of random stuff. So, uh, outside of content though, you know, I have a couple cats, a couple dogs, I have a fiance.
For the most part, I I reinvest all my money into content, and I, you know, don't really do much besides film. What is Mr Beast's most expensive video? Back in the day, it used to be when we recreated Squid Games.
I spent $4 million on that. Um, and that was like crazy at the time, but I mean, we've had quite a few videos since then where we spend we've spent more than 4 million. It's hard because I don't really track like or care that much about the money spent.
It's more about the story. What do people feel? And it's not really about the money anymore.
But I will say the most just period expensive thing I did was Beast Games, which was our prime video show. I mean, in season one, I spent over like $20 million just building a city in the show. So, for the contestants to live in.
So, that thing we got a little carried away. What is Mr Beast's most popular video? Well, as of right now, my most viewed video is uh when I recreated Squid Games in real life.
I used to when I was younger focus a lot on views and how many views does a video get. But the wave I've been on more recently is just obviously how how does a video make people feel? Because there's a big big difference between 100 million people watching a video, right?
Or our average video does 200 million views. There's a big difference between 200 million people watching a video and be like, "Yeah, that was cool. " versus 200 million people watching a video and loving it and being like, "Wow, that was really awesome.
" and like really enjoying the experience. And so I try to measure it more on, you know, quality views as opposed to just views. What is Mr Beast doing next?
I am actually dropping season 2 of Beast Games, our uh comp biggest competition show ever in the history of anything. We have a hund of the strongest people in the world compete against 100 of the smartest people in the world for $5 million, maybe $10 million. Yeah.
I mean, we built a a brand new city, biggest sets in history, just a whole large, massive undertaking, and that's been a a good chunk of this past year, and I'm excited for it to finally come out. Well, those are fun ones. What we got next?
Who won Mr Beast Island? Which island? Whoever Googled this, you you didn't clarify.
I've given away a lot of islands in my life. Actually, this year, I think I've given away two islands in 2025 alone. So, I think the first island I ever gave away, Chandler won.
We did uh Last Leave Island. He named the island Jeff. I don't remember who won the second island.
The third island, I think, was when I hit 100 million subscribers. I flew 100 random subscribers down to a private island and had him compete for it. It was such an awesome, really epic video.
And then we gave away an island in season one of Beast Games. We gave away an island in season two of Beast Games. We've we've given away quite a few islands.
In my experience, when someone wins an island, the first thing they do is try to sell it because they're like, I don't want to go to this island. So, uh, which is why I probably won't give much islands away in the future because it's, you know, not as practical as like a house. What does Mr Beast donate to?
We did a video where we helped a thousand blind people see. We helped a thousand uh people hear again. We did a video where we help people walk again.
We do a lot of projects um that I would I guess sum up as helping people uh with healthcare especially in America. And then the other side of what we do is uh we actually u with festivals we're we're the largest ethically sourced chocolate company in the world. So 100% of our chocolate we only work with farms that audit and remediate child labor on their farms.
And most people don't realize this but there's 1. 5 million kids in illegal child labor just on cacao farms. So we can have cheap chocolate.
And so I don't necessarily donate to them, but those are just more what I just use my money to make change instead of giving it to other people to make change, I guess. But a large part of it right now is trying to get as many of the 1. 5 million kids in illegal child labor and chocolate uh out of it through festivals.
And then the other side is, you know, I just think it's weird that in America there are people who their only hope of seeing, walking, hearing is that a YouTuber steps in and pays for stuff, which is like silly. So, uh, that's right now most of where my focus has been in terms of helping people. What is Mr Beast favorite YouTube video?
This, uh, might seem like a weird one. I bet most people listening to this, they'll have no idea what I'm saying, but, uh, there's this YouTuber back in the day called Technoblade, and he had this series where he tried to farm the most potatoes on a server, more uh, more potatoes than the squid guy. People who don't play Minecraft are going to think I I'm crazy, but as a grown man saying, "This is my favorite video.
" But Tennoblade was a YouTuber that sadly passed away, but he was very, very funny and charismatic. And that video, it's just so freaking funny how he just farms millions of potatoes uh over the course of months, but somehow makes it incredibly entertaining. And I find myself watching that like once a year, and it's always inspirational.
All right, what we got next? Will Mr Beast hit a billion subscribers? I hope that'd be cool.
That'd be really cool. Even what I have already, 450 million subscribers. It's freaking crazy.
Like, I actually I'm almost tearing up just thinking about it. I mean, that is such an unfathomably large number. Like, I'm already more than grateful for what I have.
I mean, I have more followers, more, you know, people who watch my content than I ever could have dreamed of when I was a little kid. So, will Mr Beast hit a billion subscribers? I hope.
But if I don't, it's not the end of the world. I mean, I already have more than I ever thought I would in terms of viewership and fans. And so, yeah, I guess we'll see.
Are Mr Beast games scripted? Are Mr Beast games scripted? Why are we googling this?
No, they are not. Oh my gosh, I spend so many millions of dollars to uh make my videos where I don't have to do that kind of stuff where All right, here here. Brace yourselves.
Here's the deal. In most giant competition shows, what they would do is uh like if you're a contestant, most shows would have a camera guy or woman walk up to you and film you and then a story producer stand behind the camera and be like, "Hey, we need you to say these lines or you're kind of the villain or you're the good guy or whatever. " They'd, you know, the camera guy would film you for 5 10 minutes.
Done. Go to the next person. Next person.
That's how they film it. What we do, like in Beast Games for example, we had a thousand contestants, more than any show in history, and we put a camera rolling 24/7 in front of all of them. So they can just be themselves, right?
Which is why we actually have the literal Guinness World Record for most cameras ever used in a single production. And the reason why shows don't do that is because I had to set up a thousand cameras, which is millions of dollars. We actually broke the world record for most cables ran in a single production for cameras, which is millions of dollars.
I had to set up a control room, which is millions of dollars. And then the downstream effects because you have a thousand cameras recording, you now have millions upon millions of dollars in storage. I had pabytes on pabytes of footage.
I mean, you're talking a thousand cameras running for hours upon hours upon hours, day after day, filming all these contestants. And then the down downstream effect is I then have to hire over 130 editors to ship through the footage. And we're editing for so long compared to any other competition show.
And it's millions of dollars every step of the way. And it's so much effort. But the reason we do that is because unlike other shows, I don't have to go, "Hey, this is your 10-minute filming window.
Say these lines. All right, we're good. " I can just leave the cameras running.
And we spend all this money on infrastructure. So, we can just capture the contestants being the contestants, them being themselves, right? And I don't have to fake anything.
That's the kind of stuff that people don't see and they don't understand, but that's what you feel. And that's why I think partially why people gravitate towards our videos because they can tell they're authentic and they can tell it's not scripted like normal reality shows, but they can't put their, you know, put it to words if you ask them. And in my opinion, this is why is because we go infinitely above and beyond 100x what anyone else would.
So contestants can just be themselves and we're recording all the time and then we can just show an actual true reflection of what happened and not have to craft things in a short window. Can Mr Beast buy the NFL? Can he buy the I already bought the NFL.
What are you talking about? I bet maybe 2% of people watching this understand that joke. To the other 98% of you, just know that if you were part of the 2%, you would think that's funny.
Mr Beast Game season 2. It's my brand new show that just dropped. We had a 100 of the smartest people in the world compete against 100 of the strongest people in the world for one of the largest cash prizes in entertainment.
And I'm telling you, this show is going to blow your freaking mind. It's bigger than anything that has ever been put on uh television. I mean, we built some of the largest sets in history to have these contestants be dwindled down to the rifle winner of 5 million or maybe $10 million.
I could sit here and ramble for hours. Just trust me. Season two of these games, we went all out and I know you're going to like it.
Yeah, that Oh, I thought it would snap. Oh well. All right, that's all the boards.
Uh, this was actually a pretty fun interview. Uh, you guys didn't Google as weird of stuff as I thought you would, but yeah, I'm grateful for the opportunity to talk to everyone. Thank you guys.
Anyone who's ever watched my videos, and uh, I don't know if they'll cut this out, but go watch Beast Game season 2. It's out right now.
