Meanings
alternative MrBeast-ification
- InternetneologismuncountableOn the video-sharing website YouTube, the trend of videos having increasingly shorter runtimes, larger budgets, faster pacing, louder audio and attention-grabbing editing styles and oversaturated thumbnails for greater viewer retention, especially through replicating the ideas and format of American YouTuber MrBeast.
YouTube is knee-deep in "MrBeastification."
2022 September 6, dannymcmahon, Twitter5 more examples
I think they still make cool videos tho, mrbeastification hasn't taken over completely
2022 January 7, @minionssuperfan, TwitterBut I think specifically with MrBeastification, it was really the first time where a thumbnail style and a format became oversaturated on the platform.
2022 December 13, “Year in Review: Analyzing YouTube's Top 10 moments of 2022”, in The Colin and Samir Showdream dropping his 45 minute vlog during the peak mrbeastification of youtube
2023 January 6, dreamie_twt, TwitterI don’t support the mrbeastification of any YouTubers videos. Videos that are around 20-30 minutes will always be better than these short videos people are pumping out now
2023 June 8, _Belovedz_, Twitterthe mrbeastification of karl jacobs has started
2023 July 2, glitchsap, TwitterSynonyms: Beastification
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOn the video-sharing website YouTube, the trend of videos having increasingly shorter runtimes, larger budgets, faster pacing, louder audio and attention-grabbing editing styles and oversaturated thumbnails for greater viewer retention, especially through replicating the ideas and format of American YouTuber MrBeast.
Origin
From MrBeast (an American YouTube personality) + -ification. Popularised on 30 July 2022 by YouTuber Orr "Pinely" Piamenta.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
MrBeastification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MrBeastification
“MrBeastification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MrBeastification. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “MrBeastification,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MrBeastification.
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