MrBeast's Squid Game recreation cost $4.2M to produce, with revenue from ads ($1.5M), sponsors ($2M), and merch ($700K) totaling roughly the same. Factoring in all costs, the video lost money despite being one of YouTube's biggest productions. Scale doesn't guarantee profit—even when every revenue line looks massive on paper.
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