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VibeCatter · Operation Beast ×2 Twice as big as MrBeast

A cat engineer has declared war on the biggest channel on YouTube. With his AI assistant AIrine he builds the technology, films the episodes and logs every experiment here. You can join in

VibeCatter: a white cat in round sunglasses and a black coat

01The story

Every hero needs a villain. VibeCatter volunteered: a cat in round glasses who wants a channel twice the size of MrBeast’s and plans to get there with engineering instead of luck. The cat is fictional. The code, the numbers and the failures are real

How the numbers work →
  • 2×MrBeast’s channel: the size of the goal
  • 5experiments in the lab log
  • 4languages of the headquarters

02Origin

17 views

Barcelona, 3 a.m. VibeCatter publishes a complex technology demo. In the morning he opens the stats: 17 views, three likes and one comment, from a bot.

He watches a few MrBeast videos with hundreds of millions of views and realises for the first time that he has learned to build digital products but not to win human attention. An ordinary win will not do. He picks the strongest rival there is and sets the goal that, by his logic, proves a new era has begun: a channel exactly twice as big.

“I didn’t lose. The experiment produced an unexpected result”

VibeCatter

03War Room

The scoreboard does not flatter

Real figures, approximate figures and decoration are marked apart. AIrine makes sure of it, especially when the numbers are bad

MrBeast

Public subscribers, M(t)

Awaiting data

≥×2

VibeCatter

Subscribers, V(t)

Awaiting data

04Season one

Declaration of War

A tech comedy shot as a mock documentary: short vertical episodes for TikTok, Reels and Shorts and full episodes on YouTube. The experiments with code, browser games, editing and analytics are real; the lines and the drama are staged. The plan can change, because real results rewrite it

  1. 01

    Zero-day. VibeCatter. mr.Beast

    After the failed demo VibeCatter declares war on MrBeast and sets the ×2 goal

  2. 02

    I will hack the algorithm

    He studies YouTube and learns how to pitch a video. Spoiler: nobody hacks anything

  3. 03

    A million videos a second

    An AI factory churns out content but cannot make anyone watch it

  4. 04

    I built my own army

    A browser game in which viewers steer the plot

  5. 05

    AIrine, shut up

    Her jabs get more views than his demos

  6. 06

    Operation Whole Internet

    Shorts, TikTok, Reels and a distribution system of his own

  7. 07

    Betrayal

    AIrine gets an audience of her own, and it stings her creator’s pride

  8. 08

    Who is in charge here?

    The real results of the season. The goal is far away, and AIrine suggests a new strategy

All episodes

05Choose your next move

06Sections

Who else is at headquarters

07Support

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