Armies with names, fandoms with tours, audiences that funded hospitals and ran billboard campaigns. The question is whose community did the most on its own.
1PewDiePieThe Bro Army, later the self-styled 9-year-olds, who ran the 2018-2019 Subscribe to PewDiePie campaign on billboards and hacked printers.1000pts
2YogscastA community that has funded the Jingle Jam charity bundle every December since 2011.759pts
3Danny GonzalezGreg, the commentary community that calls itself the fastest-growing army on YouTube as a running joke.647pts
4SidemenThe British collective whose fans sell out Wembley-scale charity football matches every year.552pts
5Hank GreenNerdfighteria, the Vlogbrothers community that has run the Project for Awesome every year since 2007.542pts
6JacksepticeyeFans who have made Thankmas one of the biggest December charity events online.542pts
7Jerma985A fandom that turned his streams into memes, documentaries and a live-action Dollhouse event.542pts
8MarkiplierA community that funds his charity streams within hours and filled theatres for his Iron Lung film.478pts
9Tyler OakleyA community that raised more than a million dollars for the Trevor Project through his birthday drives.478pts
10Ludwig AhgrenFans whose subscriptions kept his 2021 subathon running for 31 days and set the Twitch record.404pts
11DreamThe Dream SMP fandom, which turned a Minecraft roleplay server into fan fiction, animatics and trending topics for two years.404pts
12SmoshA fanbase that followed the channel through a corporate sale and bought back in when Ian and Anthony reunited in 2023.319pts
13CoryxKenshinThe Samurai, a fanbase that waits out his months-long breaks and returns in the millions the day he uploads.319pts
14TommyInnitA young audience that followed him from Dream SMP streams to a sold-out stand-up tour.319pts
15TechnobladeFans who kept Technoblade Never Dies trending worldwide after his 2022 death and funded a Sarcoma Foundation drive in his name.319pts
16MrBeastThe audience that turned a North Carolina challenge channel into the largest subscriber base on the platform.217pts
17Rhett & LinkThe Mythical Beasts, the Good Mythical Morning audience that has shown up every weekday since 2012.217pts
18Dan and PhilThe Phandom, the fan community that sold out two world tours and defined Tumblr-era YouTube fandom.0pts
19Jenna MarblesFans who have kept her channel at 19 million subscribers and her videos in rotation years after her 2020 retirement.0pts
Photo credits
- Yogscast — Howard Lake, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Danny Gonzalez — Danny Gonzalez, CC BY 4.0
- Sidemen — inzinghyMILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAMEFaZe JasperGymshark (x2)Tom Roberts GolfSocc, CC BY 3.0
- Hank Green — Tessa Bury, CC BY 4.0
- Jacksepticeye — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Markiplier — Ethan Nestor, CC BY 3.0
- Tyler Oakley — Collision Conf, CC BY 2.0
- Ludwig Ahgren — State Farm, CC BY 2.0
- Smosh — Vlogbrothers, CC BY 3.0
- TommyInnit — Harry Murphy/Web Summit, CC BY 2.0
- MrBeast — Tyren Redd, CC BY 4.0
- Rhett & Link — SHOWTIME, CC BY 3.0
- Jenna Marbles — RISE, CC BY 2.0
