NEW YORK — YouTube's biggest creator has set a new personal benchmark with a challenge that kept four contestants inside a grocery store for more than six months and asked them to eat their way through millions of calories of food.

MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, said his latest video, "Eat Everything In A Grocery Store, Win $1,000,000," became the most-watched video of his career in its first 24 hours after it was uploaded Oct. 3 to his channel, which has about 520 million subscribers.

"New video is our most viewed video ever in 24 hours," Donaldson wrote on X, adding that more than 10,000 viewer comments had called it the channel's best video ever.

The roughly hourlong video drew more than 70 million views in its first day, according to Donaldson's YouTube analytics dashboard, which he shared publicly. By Oct. 5, it was approaching 100 million views, and later reports put the total above 125 million.

Donaldson also said viewers had collectively spent more than 1 billion minutes watching the video, with the average viewer staying for more than 20 minutes, an unusually long watch time for YouTube.

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