Restaurant spending per capita

MrBeast's YouTube subscribers and American per-capita restaurant spending, both climbing. The viewer is watching the stunt video while ordering a meal. The graph is, again, almost domestic.

MrBeast YouTube subscribers grew from about 14 million in 2016 to over 200 million by 2024 as the philanthropy-and-stunt format scaled. US per-capita restaurant spending grew steadily through the 2010s and 2020s as casual dining and delivery normalised eating prepared meals away from the kitchen. Two completely unrelated growth stories sharing a window because the same six years rewarded both a single creator's reach and a household discretionary-spending category.

Two completely independent American defaults grew. The screen and the meal, often in the same evening.