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MrBeast and his controversial statements: "Being a successful YouTuber is the same as being a professional athlete"

The YouTuber spoke in an interview about the difficulty of staying at the top

Is being a successful YouTuber the same as being a professional...
Is being a successful YouTuber the same as being a professional athlete?MARCA GAMING

MrBeast is one of the great personalities that the boom of social networks and content creation has given us. The American has managed to become a benchmark on YouTube, where he has established himself as the most followed , already accumulating more than 360 million subscribers.

His videos have managed to become a mix of YouTube and television, as he now makes multimillion-dollar investments in each of them and has a huge production team behind him. All with the aim of continuing to stay at the top as the absolute king of the social network, something that is not easy at all.

Competition in this sector has been growing over time. While in the early days of the platform there were only a few who decided to bet on it and managed to make a living from it, today there are many who see it as a business opportunity and try to take advantage of the possibilities that this world offers.

MrBeast has spoken about this recently. The content creator gave an interview on 'Click Baited' where he made several interesting statements, while at the same time opening up about the heavy workload he has had in recent months due to his channel and the show he has launched in collaboration with Prime Video, the Beast Games

MrBeast compares being a successful YouTuber to being a professional athlete

From the beginning, MrBeast has already started off strong: "Being a successful YouTuber you could almost compare it - it's a strange comparison, I know they're going to clip it and tell me I have an ego - but it's like being a professional athlete. You always have to be at your best. It's not something you just deserve, you have to get up every day and earn it because there will probably be 20, 30 or 50 million people who want to be me".

MrBeast compares being a successful YouTuber to being a professional athleteYouTube / Click Baited
who are obsessed daily with how they can take my place and how they can dethrone me. If you want to stay on top, you just have to make a lot of sacrifices,'' : "We are constantly publishing videos on YouTube, even when we record the Beast Games. Basically I was recording every day for the last 60 days

, or two months. I was recording video for my main channel, video for my main channel... to have several in reserve. Then came the Beast Games and I was recording 15 hours a day for 45 days''.

Some shocking statements that show the hard work behind YouTube's number one, even though many still think that 'that's not work'. It was a very hard few months for MrBeast, but fortunately they have paid off with the success of his videos and also the success of the Beast Games.

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