MrBeast Counted to 100,000 in His First Viral Video, Leaves Another Message for Himself in 10 Years

-I didn't realize you had this many people. -Oh, yeah, there's a lot of people here, yeah. How tall -- How tall are you, Mr Beast?

You're tall -- Wow. -6'4". [ Cheers and applause ] -Holy moly.

You're 6'4". -Yeah. -What -- -There's -- on that, every time I say my height, there's a subreddit where they, like, compare people's heights.

And, like, now that I said that, when I open up Reddit, it's going to be them comparing me to other celebrities, and they're always -- Their theory is that I'm 6'2" and I lie about it, and I'm just like. . .

And so now I have to read theories about that all day. -I'm 6'. Yeah, yeah.

So it's definitely real. What -- By the way, what do I call you? -Um, I mean, Jimmy or Mr Beast.

Just call me Mr Beast. -Okay. -Yeah, "Mr Beast.

" Let's have some fun. Let's get crazy. -All right, let's get crazy.

I'll do it. -Mr Beast. And, Mr Beast -- "Mr Beast" came from what?

An Xbox gamertag? -Yeah. So, when you create an account, it just gives you a random name.

-Yeah. -And it gave me, like, "Mr Beast 6000," and I was like, "Good enough. Mr Beast.

" -So you just lost the 6000? -Yeah. 'Cause everyone -- once I started getting views on my videos, everyone was like, "What's the 6000?

" I was like, "I don't know. " -Wow, yeah. And then, after a while, I was just like, "Okay.

I'll just get rid of it. " -Did you consider any other names besides Mr Beast? -Uh, that's a great question.

So actually -- [ Chuckles ] 'Cause I do so many, like, weird different things, at one point when I was in high school, I had a little bit of like a mental breakdown. I was like, "Should my channel be Mr Random? " Because everything I do is random.

And I almost switched it there. But then, I. .

. -Mr Random. -Mr Random, 'cause, like, one day, I'm in the pyramids, the next day I'm buried alive, the next day we're giving a million people food.

I was like, "It's always random. This is more on brand. " -And it's amazing what you do.

-Well, I mean, you don't have to clap because I killed it. It died. -Mr Beast is good.

-Yeah, it worked out. -Mr Random sounds like an offspring "Stranger Things" character that we don't talk about. -Make a good Marvel villain.

-Yeah. This is your first time on the show, so I thought we can get to know you a little bit. -Okay.

-You first started posting videos, was it on YouTube 15 years ago? -Yeah, when I was 11, 15, 16 years ago, yeah. -You turned it into the most subscribed channel in history.

Uh, do you remember the first post that you did? -Uh, yeah. Well, it's an interesting story.

I was playing this Facebook game called "Battle Pirates. " None of you have ever heard of it. Like, no one plays this game.

-"Battle Pirates"? -Yeah, "Battle Pirates. " I was a little kid, and some hacker, like, destroyed my base.

And I was like, "I want to get them banned. " So I filmed it, like, with a little screen recorder, uploaded it. It got like 5,000 views, and the person did end up getting banned.

-Wow! -And I was like, "Yo, this is sick. " [ Cheers and applause ] Yeah.

And that kind of -- I was like, "This is kind of fun. " And then, it kind of snowballed into. .

. -The internet's powerful. -Yeah.

Well, I got lucky 'cause the first video got views, and I was like, "Oh, this is easy. " And then the next like 500 videos, no views. -What was the first video that took off after the.

. . ?

-Um, my proudest accomplishment. -Oh. -I counted to 100,000.

Yeah, I literally just counted 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. -Yeah, you could do the greatest hits. Yeah, but.

. . [ Laughter ] -11, 12, 13, 14.

. . -I understand, yeah, yeah.

But all the way -- no breaks? Nothing? -Yeah, 40 hours straight.

40 hours of counting. [ Audience exclaims ] -What would make you want to do something like that? -Well, if you want to know the truth, I was watching this -- "Game of Thrones"/ this other show called "Naruto," and I was like, "Man, this is such a waste of time.

Like, I'm not making money doing this. " And I was like, "How --" Really, I thought about this. I'm not even joking.

"How can I make money while watching shows I like? " And I was like, "Well, what if, while I watch it, I just record myself counting? " And it worked out.

The entire time, I was watching "Game of Thrones" and "Naruto. " But people don't know that. And it's just me counting.

And so it looks like I'm just sitting there staring at a wall for, you know, 40 hours. -And people were just clicking on, like, going, "I can't believe this dude is counting to 100,000. " -Yeah, no, you're being too nice.

They're more clicking, like, "What is this idiot doing? Like, what an absolute moron. " -You do so many fun things.

Let me just read some of the titles of your videos. -Oh, gosh. -One is "Stop this train, win a Lamborghini.

" -Yep. That's a -- that one, one of my favorite videos. Because we put a Lamborghini on train tracks, and then I gave someone my credit card.

I said they could buy whatever they want. And if they stop the train before it gets to Lamborghini, basically derail it, they get to keep the Lamborghini. And so they built like concrete walls on the train tracks.

They laid 18 wheelers. And then I sent a train, like with a brick on the gas pedal, full speed at it, and then you see if the Lamborghini survives. -How -- how -- [ Laughter ] -I thought it was pretty cool.

-No, it's very cool! But I'm saying, like, how do you -- how do you legally do all this stuff? How do you -- Where do you even start?

Like, I can't even, like, wear shoes on here without asking NBC if I'm allowed. I'm like, "How do you. .

. ? " -Well, I don't, uh -- Obviously, on YouTube, you know, there's -- there's no network or anything.

So I can, for the most part, as long as it's legal, do whatever I want. -Has there any been -- something that you go like, "Ah, this just can't be done," or wasn't done the best? -Uh, well, um.

. . Well, actually, like, the thing is, 'cause we do so many big experiments and things that have never been done before, in general, what we do, we try to do stuff that you could not see anywhere else in the world.

And so, like, a different video -- that's actually similar to this Lamborghini one -- I gave a guy a yacht, put it in a lake, and then same thing -- "Here's my credit card. Build walls. Do whatever you can to stop these cannons from sinking your yacht," and, you know, you get to keep it.

But -- right? -So, people are shooting -- -Yeah, we had, like, 20 cannons. -You are so fun, man.

-But in this case, the thing is, right before we go to shoot the cannons, I mean, we're millions of dollars deep and big shoot. Like, someone goes, "Oh, there's a bald eagle over there. " And I was like, "Oh, that's cool.

There's bald eagle's nest. " And then I didn't know this, but you can't, like, make loud noises near bald eagles' nests because it's, like, they're protected, and it could scare them away. And I was like, "Oh, so, can we just pick up the nest and move it?

" -Yeah, of course. [ Laughter ] -Logically, that's what I was thinking. Nope.

That's a federal crime. So it's like, "Oh, you can't you can't displace bald eagles. " -So you had to scrap the whole idea?

-Oh yeah. You know, I got, like, a yacht here, I got all this production crew, everything, massive shoot we've been working on for half a year. And then, I'm just like, "Bro, it's literally just bald eagle.

Like, you're sure I can't just move its nest? " And so we had to literally pack everything up, spend obscene amounts of money and moved to a different lake. And so we have things like that happen all the time that there's not, like, a manual for these kinds of things.

And so I'm just like, "Okay, now I know. Survey the area for bald eagles. " -Yeah, see?

You live, you learn. -Exactly. We have, like, lists of all these things that I just didn't know.

-You do so much more besides just YouTube. You have a line of toys, you have food, you have a software company, you're starting a mobile-phone service, you're even starting your own bank. -Yeah.

-But you also do a lot of philanthropy. Tell us about some of these things that you're working on right now. -Well, I mean, where do I start?

You can tell by what he just listed. I really enjoy building businesses. I find it a lot of fun.

And, uh, I guess the thing that I spend a lot of time on is just on the chocolate side with Feastables, uh, which we -- There's a lot of kids in child labor that work on cacao farms, and so Feastables, we pay all our farmers a living income, reference price, and we actually audit and remediate the child labor on the farms. And so, you know, the bigger Feastables gets, the more kids we can get out of child labor on cacao farms. So that's why I'm very passionate about Feastables and, um.

. . -Wow.

-Yeah, it's been the big focus on this. [ Cheers and applause ] -That's the thing, right? I watched your -- I watched your videos.

My kids watch your videos, too, but that's my favorite ones, when you give back and you see that you have heart and you go, "Yeah, this guy is using his celebrity for good. " -Thank you. -Which is a good, cool move.

I love that. [ Cheers and applause ] That's what you should do. We need it.

We need it. -Thank you. You did -- you did a video you posted on your channel a few months ago called "Hi, me in ten years.

" -Yep. -You recorded this video in 2015? -Yep.

And YouTube has this feature where you can schedule upload videos to go public in the future. So, when I was a teenager, I filmed a video, and then set it on YouTube to manually go up 10 years later. It was pretty crazy.

And then that video went up like three months ago. I completely forgot I made it. It was pretty wild.

-We have a little bit of the video. -Oh, gosh. I look like a nerd in it.

-Hi, me in 10 years. At the time I'm recording this video, I have 8,000 subscribers and 1. 8 million views.

So whenever you see this, compare these numbers to whatever I have when you watch this. Okay. I really hope I have a million subs by now.

Please, future me, please. What am I doing with my hand? Please have a million subs.

-Haircut. What is that haircut? [ Cheers and applause ] Who let -- Who let my hair look like that?

-You're -- You're, uh -- Your goal was to have a million subscribers. Okay? And right now, let me just say you have 466 million subscribers and 110 billion views.

[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah. Pretty crazy. It doesn't even -- it's just, big number -- It just doesn't even seem real, to be honest.

-I was thinking, since you made that video in your -- in your bedroom, maybe now you're here on "The Tonight Show," would you like to talk to yourself in 10 years? -Like film something now for me in 10 years? -Yeah.

-Oh, gosh. -So, 2036. You can look in that camera.

-That camera? -Yeah. Look in -- -Okay.

This is for 20-- 2036. Wow. Um, well, you're old -- pretty old now.

[ Laughter ] You're like 37. So hopefully you have a few kids now, and hopefully they're, uh, you know, not spoiled. Good luck figuring that one out.

Um, and I hope you're just still making content. Hope you're still building businesses that, you know, are net positive, and, um, I -- I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow, so thinking 10 years in the future right now is just so crazy. Uh, I guess maybe we have a billion subscribers, assuming people don't just randomly stop watching me.

So, uh. . .

I don't know. I feel a little put on the spot, but I'm rooting for you, and I hope it works out. [ Cheers and applause ] -Thank you for doing that.

-Yes. -"I'm rooting for you" is a good line. I'm rooting for you.

-I'm rooting for me. -I know you're rooting for you. Uh, we're all rooting for each other.

Let's talk about "Beast Games. " You're in the middle of your second season. How do we set up what the show is?

-Oh, boy. Well, "Beast Games" is essentially like, if you took a competition show and you just, you know, cranked the dial up to the max. .

. -Yeah. -.

. . but then didn't stop and kept cranking it even though the dial broke.

-Wow! -And you just keep turning it. -Beastify it.

-Yeah, basically. And so, you know, the largest cash prize ever, most contestants ever, all the usual stuff. Every season, we break a bunch of world records.

And so season two, we get 100 of the strongest people in the world that I can find to go against one of the smartest people in the world I can find. And just some of the biggest sets, spectacles in the world for a $5 million prize. -It is so fun to watch all of it.

What you built, even the whole world that they live in. . .

-Yeah. Well, city, yeah. So, each season of "Beast Games," we build a city for the contestants to live in 'cause, you know, a lot of competition shows, in between each challenge, they go to a hotel room, and I'm like, "That's lame.

" You know? Like, I want them to interact with each other. I want them to live with each other and, like, you know, it to become a thing.

So, like, once they enter, they're playing games while they're living in the city, so it becomes like a community and they're there for 45 days. -It's so bizarre. And it's fantastic to watch.

I'm a big fan, obviously. I want to show everyone a clip. This is season two of "Beast Games.

" Take a look. -The rest of you have survived the first round. .

. -How do I get back on? !

-. . .

just as long as you can safely make it back to your platform. Hannah, can you get back on? Whoa.

-[ Screaming ] Oh! Oh, Nick! Nick!

-Swing over. Rotate your body. Rotate your body.

You got it, you got it. Nick, you good? -Oh!

-Mr Beast, everybody! New episodes of "Beast Games" are available every Wednesday on Prime Video. Mr Beast and I are doing something fun after the break.

Stick around. Come on back.