- (Karl snickering)
I'll be right back, by the way. - (smacking table)
Karl Jacobs! - I love Karl!
- I know Karl. (laughs) - I love Karl Jacobs.
He's hilarious. (chuckles) - It's Among Us.
It's Among Us, guys. - (player) Okay,
Karl was actually AFK this time. So...
- (gasps) - (player) I left five up on top...
- But he fooled everybody, saying that he was AFK.
- He's so silly! - (Karl) Oh, no!
- He's so cute! - (chuckles) He's so funny.
- He's so precious! - (Karl) Can we talk about
how perfect that was? - He did it. (snapping)
That was such a good play too. - Classic Karl, guys, obviously.
- (React) With over 13 million views, that video that you just watched
is actually his most viewed video on Karl Jacobs' YouTube channel.
- (narrator) Karl Jacobs is a college dropout
that hacked MrBeast's videos to become the number one streamer
on Twitch in just a matter of months. - There's no way.
Number one? - (narrator) He's always trending
on Twitter. One of the breakout stars
of the last year. His newly launched podcast
beat out Joe Rogan on the Spotify charts.
- Wait, wait, wait. What? - Banter Podcast!
- I didn't even know he had a podcast!
He's everywhere! - (Karl) what's up, guys?
And welcome to the Banter Podcast.
- (narrator) And he has one of the most die-hard fan bases
on the internet. - Oh, yes, the Karl stans.
They're crazy themselves. - Kind of crazy.
- (narrator) How is Karl doing what he's doing?
How did he become Karl? - Ohh.
- (Karl) For average viewership for the month? Yeah, I'm number two
behind-- Warframe did a promotional stream.
I'm the number one Twitch streamer. (laughs) There we go.
Right now, I guess. - I did not know
he was number one, but I do watch
all of his Twitch streams. - It's his personality.
That's why he's doing it so well. - That's so insane,
considering how many big Twitch streamers there are.
- That's just crazy. It's hard to process.
- I can't even imagine how you amass that kind of audience
because Twitch is huge. - (React) Before all of this,
he was actually just a college dropout,
who started editing videos for MrBeast's brother.
- Ah! I didn't know that. - Drop out of college, kids.
I'm joking. Don't do that. Don't do that.
- (narrator) So, Karl takes the job editing for
MrBeast's brother's YouTube channel. - (Karl) From editing,
I started being lead camera, and then directing.
And then, they threw me in a video.
- (narrator) But when the MrBro channel took a break,
Karl moved to the editing team at MrBeast.
- He worked his way up. - (laughs) Camera.
- (Karl) Specifically Chris. - Oh yeah, is an OG.
He's been there for a while. - Oh my god. (laughs)
- (man) And now, they're doing bits all the time.
They're hanging out all the time. And Chris is like,
"Let's try 'em on camera." - (MrBeast) This is extreme...
- I watched this video. - (MrBeast) ...last one of you found
gets $60,000. - I love those videos.
- (Karl) What am I gonna do with the 60K?
Well, I just broke a few of my crayons, so I'm
really excited to get new ones. - Crayons.
- Those challenges are crazy. $60,000 for hide and seek.
That's crazy. - I thought he was there
from the beginning. That was my assumption.
I never would have thought he joined later
and was first an editor for a completely different channel.
- Crazy little progression, right? It's like, you started
from the bottom, now we here. (laughs)
- (React) So, his next big break came when he accidentally ended up
in a stream with Dream and then was eventually invited
to be part of the Dream SMP. - SMP.
- I didn't know it was on accident. I thought it was, like,
it just kind of happened. - (Karl) I have no idea
what Corpse is gonna look like, but I'm on my way over
right now, okay? - Oh, I remember he looked
like a cat. Yeah, I remember this.
- (chuckles)
- Corpse's skin on the SMP is so funny.
- (laughs) That's so funny! - (Karl) God, is that Hooters Bingus?
- (Corpse) Hooters. - (Karl) I'm...
- Hooters Bingus. (claps and laughs) - (Karl) So, this was
Ninja's house right here. - (player) Ninja built a house?
So, I'm fine to smash some glass if I wanted to, right?
It's fine. - Oh yeah, Ninja's house is--
I mean, that's-- - Oh, hell nah. (laughs)
- Also, LazarBeam got really big too. It's crazy.
He used to be a small Madden streamer.
- (React) Do you know what's happening right now?
- Not really, but it's fun. (laughs) I like it.
- All of the people in the Dream SMP are such big influencers.
And it's a great thing to do. I mean, a bunch
of influencers in the one. - I just really know that Dream
reaches out to creators who he think would be able
to grow their platform on the SMP. - And when you get on that SMP,
ugh, your views go WAY high! (laughs)
- He's not even that good. But I mean, it's just his personality
that lands him on there. - I almost imagine it
as the biggest audition of your life. If you do a good job, you're set.
And he did a great job. - After he joins the Dream SMP,
Karl also launched his own series based off of the SMP
called the Tales From the SMP. This is where he basically creates
backstories and worldbuilds for the characters in the Dream SMP.
This only catapulted him even further into success.
- (Karl) Hello?! - (Sir Billiam) Hello. Who is this?
- (Karl) I'm just in the area. Why? Who are you?
- (Sir Billiam) I am Sir Billiam III, the owner of this here mansion.
- (Karl) Why are you wearing that mask?
- (Sir Billiam) I'm hosting a masquerade.
- (Karl) Ohhhh. - In a mask. (laughs)
- (Karl) That's why I'm here also. - (Sir Billiam) See, the thing is,
I specifically said no poor people. - (Karl) I stream Minecraft.
Don't worry. I'm not poor. - (laughs)
- I think it's just so popular because everyone loved the SMP.
And the idea of adding this story behind it,
just everyone hopped on it right away. - It's just another perspective
for people to watch. If they enjoy watching people
on the SMP, they obviously wanna learn more about it,
so they're gonna watch Karl's videos too.
- (Karl) We're going to beat Minecraft,
but the entire world is TNT! - GeorgeNotFound.
Ohhhh. - (Karl) ...world is filled
to the brim with creepers. One of them exploded...
- (React) Are you familiar with... - Yeah, that's dangerous, right?
Okay. (laughs) - (Karl) If that creeper exploded,
the video would be over. All of the dirt is replaced with TNT.
- Oh! - (Karl) There's probably dirt
right under the sand. - Ooh.
- (George) There's a lot of TNT down here.
- I love George. - I love George too.
- (Karl) Dude, we could get a cat! - (gasps)
- (Karl) They scare the creepers away.
- (George) Oh my god! - (Karl) Wait. I'm a genius!
- George and Karl, besties forever. - I enjoy them,
but they're not the best at Minecraft. (laughs)
- (React) He's been posting these videos on YouTube.
He now has over three million YouTube subscribers
and nearly 8 and 1/2 million TikTok followers.
But not everyone loves him. There are actually some that say
he, quote, "ruined MrBeast." - (Karl) I started being a mainstay
on MrBeast when they were making big changes at MrBeast.
- Oh, it's Anthony. - (Anthony) ...some people saying
that you have ruined MrBeast. - (Karl laughs) Yeah,
I'm proud of that one. - (Anthony laughs)
- Yeah! - (Karl) That one's funny to me.
- Why? - (Karl) I was laughing about this
with Jimmy the other day. - What?
- (Karl) They think it's like a conspiracy.
(distorted) Karl was brought on to MrBeast to make it
more child-friendly. - What?!
- (Karl) ...definitely polarizing.
I'm loud sometimes. - Like me. (laughs)
- (Karl) If you don't like how I act, that's fair. Whatever.
- There are a lot of people that are not a big fan.
And that's the thing that's so confusing
is I feel like some of his fans will joke like that and be like,
"Karl sucks," but they're like, "But I love you."
And then, there are other people that are like, "No, Karl SUCKS."
- If he's already talking about it with MrBeast,
he's taking it into consideration.
I feel like he's handling it very well.
But I know that's what we see. But he could be taking it
a totally different way. - I know that there was a point
in time where he just explained that his mental health
wasn't the best, which I think that was probably a reason
because of it. - (React) Some say that his X factor
is truly the community of loyal fans that he has built around him.
I mean, just his fan art alone is abundant.
- These artists are taking the time out of their day
when they could be making other art, doing commissions,
whatever, whatever, to make something for someone
they just really care about. - Credit to all the fan artists.
That's-- look, that's amazing. - Karl, I love you. (laughs)
I love your content. I think it's incredible.
Keep it up. And when's the next Tales episode?
We've been waiting since October. - I love the vibe that you have,
and I'll check out your streams, man. - I love you, Karl.
You're a great person, and you're very good.
And you do amazing things for everybody, and I appreciate it.
- (chants) Karl, Karl, Karl! Just live your best life and congrats.
- Karl, I wanna be best friends with all of you guys
because so many of you have already seen me.
So, why are you not my BFF already?
- Good job, Karl. (claps) Well deserved.
- Karl, no! - (laughs) I love Karl!
Oh my gosh. - I'm not stalking you, Karl.
I just really like you. (laughs) - Oh my god.
Karl, please react to me reacting to you
'cause Tommy did. - I think Karl knows.
- (React) Yeah? - Karl gets it.