A new YouTuber is trying to recreate one of the internet’s most talked-about early challenges but with a small twist. Nearly nine years after MrBeast’s famous counting video helped launch his career, creator Lets Test Laurence has started a live stream where he is counting all the way to 100,001. The idea is simple: go one number beyond what MrBeast did back in 2017 and see if people watch the journey live.
MrBeast’s original video, uploaded in January 2017, showed him counting from one to 100,000 in a marathon recording that lasted close to 24 hours after edits. That video later crossed tens of millions of views and became one of the early moments that pushed his channel into the spotlight. According to MrBeast’s recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he said the process was less serious than it looked, explaining that he watched shows while counting instead of staring at a wall the whole time.
