Coming up in today's episode,
PewDiePie's missing 50 million subscriber play button
has finally been found
and largest YouTube creator, MrBeast,
wants me to buy his diamond play button?
All this and more coming up
in today's episode of YouTube News.
And now for our first story,
T-Series, India's largest music label
and coincidentally the largest YouTube channel on YouTube,
have received a 200 million subscriber play button.
Here's a picture of the award.
As you can see, it's got a large red gem on the top of it.
It's not particularly in keeping with the 10 million
and hundred million subscriber play buttons,
but I guess there's no harm in mixing it up a bit.
There's also been no videos
released showing this play button.
All we have is this photo from the Society Awards website,
which means we do not know if this 200 million subscriber
play button is this big
or if it's this big.
But MrBeast is on track for 200 million this year,
so hopefully we'll get a better look
at a 200 million subscriber play button in the future.
Another large Indian YouTube channel, Aaj Tak,
got a 50 million subscriber play button,
which is a much more traditional trophy-style award.
And media conglomerate, Marvel,
got a custom 20 million subscriber play button
in the style of the Marvel Tower.
This is a very cool looking YouTube award.
However, it has led to some drama in the YouTube space.
Creators DanTDM, Jacksepticeye, and MatPat
all made YouTube Shorts complaining about themselves
not being sent a 20 million award from YouTube,
even though they all hit 20 million subscribers ages ago.
- Where's mine, bro?
- I don't have one!
- There's a huge problem with that.
- And now moving on to our top story,
PewDiePie's 50 million subscriber ruby bro-fist
play button has been found after six years.
The award was last seen in this video
on the PewDiePie channel,
"Destroying my 50 million award."
And since then, many people, including myself,
have been wondering, did Felix keep this award
or did he chuck it out the same time
he got rid of his diamond play button
and his hundred million subscriber brief case?
Well, YouTuber Stanley Foss released this video called,
"Lost PewDiePie Award Found,"
in which he states his friend, Isaiah,
found this award on eBay
and he purchased it for a few hundred dollars.
Isaiah is a massive PewDiePie fan
and when he bought the award
he didn't think it was the real thing
because it was listed as a replica,
but when it arrived, it looked really good.
It looked exactly the same as it did
in Felix's original unboxing.
And most importantly,
on the bottom of the award was a Society Awards sticker,
which looked exactly like this,
the same kind of sticker
that features on all precious YouTube awards.
Stanley and Isaiah obviously wanted
to investigate this further,
so using the codes that was on the sticker,
they decided to call Society Awards.
Society Awards, for privacy reasons,
weren't able to give out any kind of specifics,
but they did say this:
- [Society Awards] All we can verify is
that it is a real label and it has been shipped overseas
to it's appropriate location.
- This means that even though we cannot currently guarantee
it is the original 50 million award,
we do know it was made by the same manufacturers
and it was shipped overseas, for example,
shipped from their factory in New York
to Brighton in the UK,
where PewDiePie was living at the time.
Isaiah also managed to track down the original eBay seller
who said that he found the award in a bin
in the Brighton area,
which is the exact same story as the diamond play button
that was found in a bin
and then sold on eBay for $400 back in 2020.
And also this briefcase that I bought
that once housed the PewDiePie hundred million play button.
Now unfortunately, there is one pretty big reason
why this might not actually be the 50 million award.
If you take a look at this award in great detail
you might notice that the text
on the front of the award is missing!
And if we take a look at PewDiePie's original unboxing,
it very clearly says,
"PewDiePie, 50 million subscribers, YouTube."
Now, Isaiah claims that he has found old screenshots
of PewDiePie accidentally wiping this text off,
but that sounds a bit weird,
you wouldn't think that you could
accidentally wipe this text off,
but maybe that did happen.
Either way, Isaiah and Stanley's channels
will be in description,
if you want to investigate this further.
Our next story, I bought a new fridge.
It's really nice fridge, to be fair.
It's got a freezer compartment,
which beautifully looks after
my Don't Subscribe cupcake from two years ago.
However, it was rather expensive
and that's why, when I was buying it,
I was very relieved when Honey popped up and told me
that it automatically found me five coupon codes,
which might save me a bit of money!
So of course, I clicked Apply Coupons,
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Moving on to our next story.
Now this one's a good one.
You may have seen at the end of last year
MrBeast updated his YouTube channel
saying that he was giving away
his diamond play button to a random subscriber.
Now, the random subscriber that was chosen
was a fella called Dore On Tour.
Dore makes football videos
primarily about Nottingham Forest.
Now, what's kind of crazy is that this YouTube play button
could have been given to anyone in the world.
However, the channel that was chosen just so happens
to live about half an hour up the road from me!
(Jack laughs)
It's like the diamond play button was calling for me!
Now we're gonna go ahead and watch Dore's unboxing
because something rather interesting happens.
All right, here we go.
So he is been filmed with his nieces and his nephews.
There's the award, it's got its little wrapping around it.
Cool.
However, what's very exciting
is that MrBeast actually signed this award,
but it gets even better.
So he is taking it out of the wrapping.
And as we can see,
MrBeast has signed the play button, but that's not all.
It's quite hard to see,
but that text at the bottom says,
"I bet Jack buys this, lol."
(Jack laughs)
And we also have this picture
of Jimmy actually writing this as well.
Now, when I watched this video and saw that text
I did kind of go a bit mental.
However, later in the video, Dore says this:
- Let me tell you, Jack,
you're not buying this, it's mine.
- Which is completely fair enough,
I'm not the competition winner.
If Dore doesn't wanna sell me this play button,
he has no obligation to do so.
I did obviously make him an offer though,
but he said no, it wasn't enough money.
And then I have some very heartbreaking news.
Unfortunately, his nieces rubbed my name off.
Oh, why? (Jack laughs)
This makes perfect sense.
My channel is not remotely relevant to Dore
and Dore's nieces and nephews.
They do not care about me,
so why would they want my dirty, little name
written on their fancy award?
But it does make me a little bit sad
because seeing as he only lived up the road,
I would've loved to just borrow it for like an hour
so I could make a little video
and take a photo with my little name written there.
But alas, it did not happen.
Oh well.
I did, however, get a message from Dore about a month ago
and he suggested maybe he did want
to sell it to me after all.
However, I've not received any further updates since.
Oh, hold on, I'm getting reports of some breaking news.
Apparently, the video is not at eight minutes yet.
That means it's time for five quick bonus stories.
YouTube co-founder Jawed,
who's also the creator of the first YouTube video,
"Me at the zoo,"
has changed his profile picture
for the first time in 17 years.
Previously, he's just had the default green J,
but then the other day,
he randomly changed it to a still from "Me at the zoo."
And if that wasn't enough,
he also added his first ever YouTube banner.
And it's just a picture of some elephants from the zoo.
No one quite knows if this was Jawed himself
logging back into his old account,
or if it was YouTube doing it to spice up
the first YouTube video.
Who knows?
Our next story, Linus Tech Tips,
a tech channel with over 15 million subscribers,
was hacked.
Their name was randomly changed
and they started live streaming Bitcoin scams.
Linus's channel lost 100,000 subscribers when this happened,
but the channel was restored about 24 hours later
and those hundred thousand subscribers came back.
And now for a lighthearted human interest story.
You may remember a few months ago,
I received a custom award
to celebrate 1 billion total upload views.
Well, it turns out, by pure coincidence,
there is a giant version of this award in Winnipeg, Canada.
I started receiving many pictures of subscribers
who have travelled to the Polo Park Mall
to get a photo of themselves
in front of the giant one bill award.
And now, our final story of YouTube News,
the JackSucksAtLife YouTube channel
is very close to 3 million subscribers!
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Thank you very much for watching
the first edition of YouTube News.
I've been your host, Jack Massey Welsh,
and we'll see you all next time. (Jack laughs)