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A Jersey YouTuber came close to winning a $2.5m private jet in a competition against other influencers... But it was a Guernsey social media star who ended up taking home the top prize.
The competition involving Jersey's Chris Dixon (ChrisMD on YouTube) and Guernsey's Harry Lewis (W2S) was organised and filmed by the world's most popular content creator 'MrBeast', who has 113m subscribers on his YouTube channel.
Pictured: The YouTubers couldn't take their hands off the jet for the duration of the challenge... even to go to the toilet. (YouTube/MrBeast)
The Channel Islanders - who have an impressive 22m YouTube subscribers between them - competed alongside other famous YouTubers in a challenge which involved trying to keep their hands on the $2.5m private jet for as long as possible, whilst completing various challenges including eating meals, being taped together in pairs, and even a trip into the air on the jet.
Pictured: The moment ChrisMD was eliminated from the challenge after accidentally taking his hands off the plane to touch his face. (YouTube/MrBeast)
The 12 competitors included Youtubers LazarBeam, who has over 20m YouTube subscribers, and Vikkstar123, who is also member of the YouTube group 'The Sidemen' alongside Harry.
Pictured: Organiser MrBeast has filmed many similar videos in the past. (YouTube/MrBeast)
Jersey's ChrisMD made it to the final six before appearing to forget the rules of the game and accidentally took his hand off the plane's window shortly after the jet had taken flight.
Guernseyman Harry, who eventually won the challenge after fellow YouTuber 'GeorgeNotFound' momentarily lifted his finger off the plane, decided to donate the $2.5m prize to his younger siblings, Josh and Rosie.
Pictured: Harry's brother Josh was in complete disbelief when his older brother surprised him with the private jet. (YouTube/MrBeast)
The video's creator, MrBeast, has offset the carbon emissions from the video by 10 times, and has also promised to continue to offset all carbon emissions created by the private jet's future use.
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