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The YouTuber has the most subscribed channel on the platform with over 300 million followers.
MrBeast - whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson - is known for his larger-than-life videos documenting daredevil stunts and extravagant competitions for huge cash prizes.
He has become such a fixture of YouTube that it’s easy to forget the humble beginnings he started from.
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But Donaldson’s first ever video has resurfaced and it’s got people making the same comment about the content creator.
“Alright, where am I?” were the first words ever uttered on the MrBeast channel in a clip he shared of him playing Minecraft.
Uploading the clip titled Worst Minecraft Saw Trap Ever??? back in February 2012, Donaldson was a high school student playing video games and had no idea how the channel would catapult him to fame.
Taking to the comment section of his video, many people shared the same sentiment, with one user writing: “A legend was born.”
A second wrote: “He became a legend, congratulations on 300M.”
A third added: “This was the start of a hero we just didn't know it yet congrats on being the biggest YouTuber in the world and congrats on just hitting 300m love your videos hope to see you keep up the good work and thanks for everything you've done MrBeast.”
A fourth said: “He doesn't know then in the future he's gonna be a legend and have 300m subscribers.”
And a fifth simply added: “The first video of a legend.”
Popular MrBeast videos have gone viral, including his recreation of Netflix’s Squid Game and a competition where the last person to leave a circle wins half a million dollars.
Recently, Donaldson revealed that he has a deal breaker question when it comes to hiring someone new for his team.
In an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, he discussed the difficulty of hiring people who are used to working in traditional media.
He said: “There's people that will come on and you'll ask 'em, ‘What do you wanna be doing in five years?’ And instead of saying, ‘Oh, I want to be working on this channel,’ they'll be like, ‘Oh, I hope to be working on movies,’ or this or that. And they see working on a YouTube channel as a launchpad to go into traditional, and it's like, ‘No, you just don't get it’.
“This is the end goal. This is your career. And so, I'm just so tired of having those kinds of conversations.”
Donaldson went on to say that if a potential candidate doesn’t answer the question about future work with ‘making content on YouTube’ then he won’t hire them.
“If their answer is anything like movies or traditional stuff like that, it's just a hell no,” he said.
