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MrBeast has steadily added three million new subscribers every week for the last four weeks (with the exception of two weeks ago, when he added four million). At this rate his YouTube channel is on pace to cross the unprecedented 500 million subscriber threshold in a little over 20 more weeks on approximately February 9, 2026. But something tells me he’s going to try to go for it before the end of the year. It would feel very MrBeastly if there was some type of half-a-billionth subscriber countdown to correspond with a NYE ball drop, except instead of Waterford Crystal he’d probably make the ball out of chocolate with a hazelnut center.
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If that does happen, you know where we’ll be writing about. In the meantime, current events are getting people to hit that “Subscribe” button, but just on creator channels.
Another right-wing YouTube channel gets a lot of attention
Charlie Kirk – the multi-hyphenate conservative organizer, podcaster, and founder of Turning Point USA who was fatally shot on September 10 – left behind one of the most undeniably influential digital footprints in American politics. Known for campus debates that generated a seemingly perennial supply of viral long and short-form clips, Kirk helped turn right-wing media into a juggernaut online and arguably played a major role in Donald Trump’s appeal among young men in the 2024 Presidential Election.
Turning Point’s YouTube channel added 470,000 subscribers in the week following Kirk’s death. The momentum carried into this week with another 420,000. The surge was fueled by the violent and sudden nature of the original event and the heightened political sensitivities of the American public in its wake. Interviews, compilations, vigils, and the promise of a very well attended memorial service turned the online destination into a gathering place of now more than 4.25 million YouTube accounts.
The killing has created a moment of extraordinary attention. Audiences aren’t stopping at a single channel to find solace, guidance, outrage, or whatever other color of emotional support or enragement they seek. What’s surprising is on which channels that attention is landing. Or maybe it’s more surprising where it’s not landing. It’s not Fox News. It’s not any traditional media outlet. It’s not any left-leaning podcast or political pundit, either. It’s only Candace Owens.
Owens, one of the most prominent conservative commentators of the last decade, has long occupied a unique space in the digital right. A former communications director for Turning Point USA from 2017 to 2019, she resigned from the organization after members demanded it. She joined Ben Shapiro’s right-wing news network The Daily Wire two years later in 2021. She then left the company in 2024 amid escalating internal clashes over Israel and accusations of antisemitism. She has authored best-selling books, hosted podcasts, and made frequent appearances on cable news, but her core strength has always been her ability to marshal an enormous social following.
That base just got bigger. Owens’ YouTube channel gained 440,000 new subscribers this week to become the 13th most subscribed YouTube channel in the seven-day timeframe. A quick look at her YouTube hub’s Live tab shows that increased interest in the form of viewership metrics. Owen’s almost daily live-streamed commentary and news hours regularly receive high six and low seven-digit view counts. In the last week she’s averaged about 4.94 million views per installment.
Candace Owens’ YouTube Channel’s weekly subscribers. Data provided by Gospel Stats.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- United States: 12
- India: 19
- Hong Kong: 5
- Australia, Indonesia, and Mexico: 2
- Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Chile, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Switzerland and United Arab Emirates: 1
This week, 36 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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