MrBeast & Caleb Hearon Feud Explained: Why MrBeast Is Retracting His Comments
MrBeast and Caleb Hearon launched a brief feud on social media, but it appears that things have already smoothed over between them.
It all started after Rolling Stone released its list of the Most Influential Creators of 2025. Both of them are in the Top 10 ranking, but MrBeast was not happy about his placement on the list.
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After finding out that he came in at No. 7 while Caleb was No. 6, MrBeast sent out a tweet that immediately received backlash.
“According to this list a guy with 1 million followers is more influential than me. What did I do to piss off The Rolling Stones?” MrBeast tweeted with a screenshot of Caleb‘s profile.
Caleb has 965,000 followers on TikTok while MrBeast has 119 million followers on the same app. In addition to his stand-up material on social media, Caleb is a budding actor who was previously seen in Jurassic World Dominion and is currently filming a role in The Devil Wears Prada 2.
YouTube star Rosanna Pansino defended Caleb by saying, “Mrbeast’s mask slipping this much in less than a year has been fascinating to watch. Sorry Jimmy, Caleb has something you’ll never have: A personality.”
Caleb reacted by sharing a screenshot of MrBeast‘s tweet and writing, “thank you @rollingstone it’s an honor.”
Ngl after this I watched some of his stuff and it’s actually good. I deleted the tweet I don’t want the smoke from the shooters, spare me plz
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) August 26, 2025
MrBeast later retracted his comments by deleting the original tweet and sending out a new statement.
He wrote, “Ngl after this I watched some of his stuff and it’s actually good. I deleted the tweet I don’t want the smoke from the shooters, spare me plz.”
MrBeast recently made a comment about having “very little money” despite having a $1 billion net worth.
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