The biggest content creator on YouTube, MrBeast, announced on Monday that he’s filming a game show for Amazon Prime Video.

On X, he wrote: “Big news gamers I’m going to be filming the largest game show in history and releasing it on Prime Video! Over 1,000 contestants, $5,000,000 prize, and many other world records.”

Big news gamers I’m going to be filming the largest game show in history and releasing it on Prime Video! Over 1,000 contestants, $5,000,000 prize, and many other world records. I’ll reveal more later this year but let’s just say, it’s gonna be an insane show :D

Deadline reported earlier that this deal was in the works, so whatever, news isn't a surprise. It is the natural next step for the 25-year-old internet phenom. He's already producing YouTube videos with budget levels of real TV shows, so why not go Hollywood?

Prime Video has previously relied on big-name creators to produce new shows. Amazon Studios took the hugely popular Dungeons & Dragons actual play series, Critical Role, and developed it into an animated series.

"It's going to be the largest game show in history, with the most contestants any game show has ever had, with the largest cash prize in history," MrBeast said in an interview with YouTubers Colin and Samir. "It's like our normal videos, but just 20 times better[…] I have a bigger budget. Money's not a constraint."

It is hard to imagine today, but money was a constraint to begin with for MrBeast. Before Netflix made "Squid Game" into a reality series, MrBeast did the same thing, building elaborate sets and handing over $456,000 in prize money. On his channel, which has 245 million subscribers, he regularly gives away hundreds of thousands of dollars to contestants who complete absurd tasks, like living in a grocery store for weeks, or competing in an Olympics-style showdown with one person from (almost) every country.

It isn't always a good risk to take YouTube personalities from the laptop screen to the big screen. Some older YouTube favorites have learned this the hard way (I have tried and failed to forget that "Fred: The Movie" and "Annoying Orange: Movie Fruitacular" exist).

But MrBeast isn't like any other YouTuber. MrBeast occupies a weird space wherein he is likely one of the most influential people amongst children in teens — his stranglehold on culture is so immense that I consider it the "MrBeast industrial complex." But still, most likely, people over 30 years of age are unaware who is this. But if things go right with "Beast Games," this kid from North Carolina will somehow become even more omnipresent than he already is.