MrBeast went back to the bedroom where he started YouTube to celebrate hitting 500,000,000 subscribers “This is where I created my channel and why I wanted to do this video where I gave a nod to all these OG YouTubers that came before me” “When I was a little kid in this bedroom, a lot of these creators, I used to watch them every single day” “I wanna say thank you to all of you that watch the videos because without you guys watching these videos, I wouldn't be able to build wells around the world, feed people in need” “I wouldn't be able to do the good I do, even if it was still just a handful of you watching, even if most of you guys went away and it was just me right now talking to ten of you, I’d still be grinding YouTube” “I love this more than you could ever imagine. I'm beyond blessed to have this many viewers. In closing, I just want to say I will never take you guys for granted”

MTV Jesse reveals NELK was broke before making $700,000 on their first merch drop “We had to buy budget chicken and cook it on the grill just to make sure we got some protein. We were very broke” “I remember being in Miami and it was the first time we dropped these crewnecks that we marketed correctly and we made like $700,000” “I remember calling my mom and being like, ‘We figured it out’”

FaZe Banks reveals how a dodgy manager almost took 50% of Full Send FaZe Banks: “We were in line at Chipotle and I hear you and Kyle stressing out about this manager who's trying to like literally swindle you guys” “He put the trademark in for Full Send and he's trying to like hold it over you guys and he's like I want 50% and you guys were talking about potentially like letting this guy do this” “I'm like, listen, this is none of my business but screw this guy and you guys need to go get a real manager” MTV Jesse: “We had just moved to the Clout House. Views are going up, collabs are going up and the brand's starting to make like millions. He would have got in at the perfect time”

FaZe Banks predicts you'll eventually watch videos that were made only for you “I’m really really worried about the future of like content, internet, the way people consume content because it's changed a lot since since our heyday” “Now it's all about streaming to a smaller niche audience and then that stream is broken up into a thousand clips that gets distributed that way and that's kind of how you like hit people” “People are just swiping and doom scrolling brain rot with zero intention which I don't think is necessarily a good thing but regardless of how I feel about it or anyone feels about it it's inevitable. It's what's happening. It's showing no signs of slowing down” “I think it's only going to get worse. I think that your For You timeline is eventually literally going to be just for you. Like content is going to be generated in real time” “You're going to be watching full-length 10 minute videos that have one view on them and it's from you”

FaZe Banks explains why Chrome Hearts has become one of the strongest luxury brands in the world “I saw a tweet about Timothée Chalamet being a paid Chrome Hearts shill sitting courtside. No, he's just a fan like everybody else. They don't do any of that” “Like people think I get Chrome for free or at a discount. None of that's true. They'll make me special one-off stuff which is really cool and it's special to me” “It’s all privately owned. That's why it's so cool. It's family owned, privately owned” “The market continues to skyrocket. These pants are being valued like Hermès Birkins are valued”

Shaquille O’Neal shares the mindset he uses to deal with criticism “I call it the five hands of stress” “I only care about my mother, my children, my organization and my money. It don’t get past five” “If none of these people got anything bad to say about you, why do you care what ‘they’ say? You can’t even identify who ‘they’ are” “If you try to identify every individual person inside the ‘they’ corporation, you’re gonna be working all day and you’re gonna be stressed out and it’s gonna mess up your mentals” “So if you turn it off, you won’t have a problem”

Shaquille O’Neal explains why he’d rather be rich than famous “I asked my kids one day. You wanna be famous or you wanna be rich? The ones that said famous, I had to pull to the side and pull them in the office” “Like for example, who owns this building? I have no idea. That's who I wanna be. Who made this table? No idea. That's who I wanna be” “So could I not be famous if I'm rich? Yes. I promise I wouldn’t mind. If I walk somewhere and you don’t know me, I’m not one of those people that goes, ‘I’m not famous no more.’ Everybody has their time” “I just want to be remembered as a nice guy”

MrBeast reveals he hid his YouTube channel from his mom for 3 years “For the first three years I made YouTube videos, my mom had no idea. My mom would work a second job at night and while she was gone, that’s when I would record my videos” “It’s crazy that the same channel that once had a couple thousand subscribers is now about to hit 500,000,000 subscribers”

MrBeast reveals the mindset he had as a teenager that made him the biggest YouTuber “I always had this idea that if I could ever get people to watch my videos, I would take all the ad revenue and use it to make future videos” “When I was a young teen, I used to think, why don’t big YouTubers use the money to make better videos instead of buying a Lamborghini or a mansion?” “Ten years ago, creators wouldn’t reinvest all their money back into their content and that was a pretty revolutionary idea at the time”

MrBeast reveals he deleted his first YouTube channel “When I was younger, people used to make fun of me for making videos, so I was kind of self-conscious about the channel” “I had a YouTube channel and I actually deleted it. So MrBeast, the channel you're watching now, that's about to hit 500,000,000 subscribers, it's actually my second YouTube channel” “I had one when I was 11, deleted it and I started this when I was like 13” “So I was like, I'm not gonna tell anyone. I don't want people to make fun of me about it. I was pretty low-key with the MrBeast channel at the start. So not even my mom knew that I was doing this channel”