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The biggest content creator on YouTube , MrBeast , announced on Monday that he ’s film a game show for Amazon Prime Video .
On X , he wrote : “ Big news gamers I ’m give out to be filming the largest game show in chronicle and release it on Prime Video ! Over 1,000 protester , $ 5,000,000 prize , and many other world phonograph record . ”
cock-a-hoop news gamers I ’m going to be filming the largest biz show in history and releasing it on Prime Video ! Over 1,000 contestant , $ 5,000,000 prize , and many other human beings records .. I ’ll divulge more subsequently this year but let ’s just say , it ’s gon na be an insane show :D
— MrBeast ( @MrBeast)March 18 , 2024
Deadlinepreviously reportedthat this tidy sum was in the employment , but irrespective , the news does n’t come as a surprisal . It ’s the lifelike next step for the 25 - yr - old internet phenom . He ’s already producing YouTube videos that have a budgetcomparableto that of existent TV shows — so why not go Hollywood ?
Prime Video has leveraged big - name creators to develop new shows in the past . Amazon Studios took Critical Role , a pop Dungeons & Dragons factual play series , and turned it into ananimated serial .
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“ It ’s go to be the largest biz show in account , with the most contestants any game show has ever had , with the declamatory hard currency swag in account , ” MrBeast said in aninterviewwith YouTubersColin and Samir . “ It ’s like our normal telecasting , but just 20 times better [ … ] I have a big budget . Money ’s not a restraint . ”
It ’s hard to envisage that money was a restraint to start with for MrBeast . Before Netflix turned “ Squid Game ” into areality show , MrBeast did thesame thing , construct elaborate Set and awarding $ 456,000 in dirty money money . On his channel , which has 245 million reader , he regularly give awayhundreds of grand of dollarsto dissident who complete derisory tasks , like living in a grocery fund for weeks , or competing in an Olympics - elan showdown with one individual from ( almost ) every country .
It ’s not always a dependable bet to take online creators from the laptop computer blind to the big screen . Older YouTube adept have find out this the heavy way ( I have assay and failed to leave that “ Fred : The Movie ” and “ Annoying Orange : Movie Fruitacular ” exist ) .
But MrBeast is n’t just another YouTuber . MrBeast occupy a freakish space in which he ’s probably one of the most influential hoi polloi among small fry in teenagers — his dominance in culture is so enceinte that I remember of it as the “ MrBeast industrial complex . ” Yet most people over the age of 30 probably do n’t sleep together who he is . But if all go well with “ Beast Games , ” this kid from North Carolina will somehow become even more omnipresent than he already is .
The new American Dream is to get MrBeast to pay off your debt
