Popular YouTuber MrBeast has announced that he's got a very old video which he made years ago but won't release until 2025.
The YouTuber has made it really quite big in recent years, but the beauty of the site is that you can see how everyone who ever made it big on there started out.
There's something fun about seeing some of YouTube's biggest names back when all they had was a cheap camera and a bad haircut.
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While MrBeast now puts up YouTube videos with an incredibly large scale, everyone has to start somewhere and once upon a time, he was yet another content creator making videos from his room.
The YouTuber, real name Jimmy Donaldson, recently took to Twitter or X or whatever Elon Musk is calling it by the time you read this to reveal that he's got an old video of himself scheduled to go live in 2025.
He explained that, back in the early days of his channel when his YouTube subscribers numbered in the thousands rather than the millions, he made the video and decided it'd go public in a decade.
That date will be 5 October, 2025, and in it, he'll be predicting how many subscribers his channel would reach after 10 years of videos.
We don't want to make assumptions but we're pretty sure that his prediction will be wrong, because at the moment the current figure is 192 million, and where it'll be in two years time is anyone's guess.
What the 2015 version of Jimmy Donaldson probably didn't predict was how massive his channel would become or the scope of what he'd be able to do with his YouTube videos.
Of course, getting to be the biggest channel on YouTube comes with its own pitfalls as MrBeast has attracted criticism recently over some of his video ideas.
One of his new challenges involving two people staying in a room together for 100 days where they'll get $500,000 (£408,000) if they stay in but lose it all if one of them leaves has been branded 'psychological torture'.
He showed off the room, a pretty bare space apart from a couple of beds, and a lot of people have said they reckon getting people to be isolated from the rest of society for money is a step too far.
It sounds like the video is going ahead, however, as in a follow-up post to his announcement, MrBeast wrote: "I’m about to run this experiment, let’s see how they do!"
LADbible has previously contacted MrBeast for comment.
Joe Harker