MrBeast fires savage response after Elon Musk asks him to upload videos to X

Billionaire and X owner Elon Musk has got himself in a fair few online scuffles over time - including calling American president Joe Biden a damp sock puppet and challenging Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight.

Now, he's found himself in another online debate - but it doesn't even look like he was trying to be controversial.

Musk has inadvertently gone viral because of a conversation he had with MrBeast on X (formerly known as Twitter).

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ICYMI, MrBeast is an American YouTuber with 225 million subscribers on the platform - he's known for wild challenges (like 'I Spent 7 Days In Solitary Confinement') and big giveaways ('Survive 100 Days Trapped, Win $500,000').

At the end of December, MrBeast posted his latest video on YouTube: 'I Rescued 100 Abandoned Dogs!'

To mark the new video, he posted on X: "I uploaded, go watch or I’ll drop kick you."

X user DogeDesigner replied: "Upload on this platform too," to which Musk himself responded with one simple word: "Yeah."

So far, so innocent - but that one word seems to have sparked something in MrBeast.

MrBeast - real name Jimmy Donaldson - replied with a savage takedown: "My videos cost millions to make and even if they got a billion views on X it wouldn’t fund a fraction of it."

So, yeah - it doesn't seem like he's going to be posting his videos on X any time soon. But that being said, maybe the door is somewhat open - MrBeast finished his post: "I’m down though to test stuff once monetization is really cranking!"

The exchange has gone viral, with many fans finding MrBeast's takedown rather funny.

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"He told Elon 'You cant afford me lil bro'," one X user joked.

But others had a potential solution: "Post on both. Might as well double dip," another suggested.

It's not the first time MrBeast and Musk's conversations have gone viral.

In May 2022, Musk posted: "If I die under mysterious circumstances, it's been nice knowin ya." To which MrBeast replied: "If that happens can I have Twitter."

Surprisingly, Musk said "Ok" to this bold request - a response that racked up 284K likes on X.

MrBeast is a hugely powerful figure in the online world - after joining Mark Zuckerberg's rival social media app, Threads, he became the first person to reach a million followers.

He wrote on Threads: "I feel like I’m cheating on Twitter by using this app."