Expensive MrBeast YouTube Video Isn’t Making Much Money

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YouTube star MrBeast has a reputation for hosting wild competitions. These often feature giant sets and massive cash prizes, showing that he’s not afraid to drop a lot of money on his videos. And this is clearly working, as it’s earned MrBeast over 102 million subscribers.

However, there is only so much money that a creator can make off a single YouTube video. MrBeast recently collaborated with streamer Ludwig on an incredibly expensive YouTube video that cost a massive $1 million to produce. However, the video doesn’t seem set to be making its money back, with Ludwig revealing the video’s rather pitiful profits.

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MrBeast gifted the video to Ludwig’s channel as part of a collaboration between the creators, and it’s pulled in over 2 million views since it went live on August 2nd. This was enough to make it the second most-watched video on Ludwig’s YouTube channel. However, the streamer revealed that the video only made about $3,838 since it went up last week. And while that’s still a lot of money for a single YouTube video, it’s still a loss of more than 99%.

The video itself is a race between two teams searching for a $100,000 prize. The four contestants were tasked with completing a series of challenges as they drove to locations. Examples included things like navigating a giant glue trap, stealing scrolls from a sumo wrestler’s belt, and cutting safes open with working lightsabers built by YouTubers and noted StarWars fans Hacksmith Industries. The result was an incredibly expensive 11-minute video that MrBeast wasn’t completely happy with. However, instead of simply trashing it, he let Ludwig post it on his channel.

While the video brought him 2.2