Badabun is a Mexican YouTube channel maintained by the Badabun Network, which also has ties with large Spanish language YouTubers such as Werevertumorro, Rayito and Juan De Dios Pantoja. It is the most-subscribed YouTube network channel. As of January 26th 2024, Badabun currently has 47.2 Million subscribers, and it is the most-subscribed channel in Mexico. The channel currently ranks as the 52nd most-subscribed on January 26th 2024, while also becoming the fourth most-subscribed Spanish-speaking channel. Despite of this, Badabun is considered one of the most hated YouTube channels.
The channel is well-known for producing its "Exponiendo Infieles" (or "Exposing Infidels") series, in which host Lizbeth Rodríguez interviews couples to check their faithfulness.
Channel History[]
Early YouTube Years (2014-2018)[]
The channel was created on October 13, 2014, but its first video was posted on December 5. The themes of his videos at the time were trivia and random themes. However, in 2017, they started making videos with performances, as well as creating some series.
Series, Subscriber Increase, Channel Growth, Criticism And Controversies (2018-2019)[]
In 2018, Badabun continued with some series that managed to have a positive impact on its story, gaining many daily subscribers and a good fan base. However, series such as Exponiendo Infieles and Patitas al Rescate were the ones that increased the growth of the channel.
The theme of Exponiendo Infieles was that the presenter, Lizbeth Rodriguez (previously the presenter was another person, but was replaced), went to the street and looked for couples, offering them acceptable amounts of money in exchange for checking their cell phones for a few minutes. Despite the fact that at the beginning of the episodes they began calmly, they ended with fights and attacks, with the couples breaking up. Patitas al Rescate, on the other side, was about Tavo Betancourt, searching for abandoned dogs on the streets of Mexico to help them and send them to a better place.
Those series were the ones that drove Badabun to success, however, those series were criticized, for the fact that Badabun made believe that Exponiendo Infieles were real events, when they were really paid actors pretending to be couples. Many also criticized the fact that in the end there would always have to be an aggressive or violent act on the part of the couples. Patitas al Rescate, despite receiving support from the people due to the actions of Tavo Betancourt, also received enormous criticism due to the yellowishness and exaggerations of the program, as well as many people criticized Badabun for leaving the animals lying on the street to capture better shots for their videos.
Badabun not only published videos about series, but also continued the videos of trivia and created some animations. However, many of those videos generated negative interest because they were ideas taken from videos from smaller channels, as well as stealing thumbnails and content. Cases about the trivia videos or the plagiarism of Meet Arnold were the most notorious. Videos where Badabun talks about the subject of HolaSoyGerman and the positive repercussion that the YouTuber had, were harshly criticized towards the company.
Other popular Badabun videos were also criticized for sexualizing women and for bringing "junk TV to YouTube", as well as intimidating and deleting videos from YouTubers that simply criticized the company's content, even simply for referring to the company because of its name. They have been frequently accused of using bots because of the strange growth of the channel, although this has not been confirmed.
Subscriber Milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 1 million subscribers: December 16, 2016
- 2 million subscribers: June 10, 2017
- 3 million subscribers: September 13, 2017
- 4 million subscribers: November 9, 2017
- 5 million subscribers: December 9, 2017
- 6 million subscribers: December 31, 2017
- 7 million subscribers: January 18, 2018
- 8 million subscribers: February 8, 2018
- 9 million subscribers: March 2, 2018
- 10 million subscribers: March 22, 2018
- 11 million subscribers: April 6, 2018
- 12 million subscribers: April 22, 2018
- 13 million subscribers: May 8, 2018
- 14 million subscribers: May 20, 2018
- 15 million subscribers: June 3, 2018
- 16 million subscribers: June 14, 2018
- 17 million subscribers: June 26, 2018
- 18 million subscribers: July 4, 2018
- 19 million subscribers: July 13, 2018
- 20 million subscribers: July 23, 2018
- 21 million subscribers: August 2, 2018
- 22 million subscribers: August 16, 2018
- 23 million subscribers: August 31, 2018
- 24 million subscribers: September 15, 2018
- 25 million subscribers: October 4, 2018
- 26 million subscribers: October 25, 2018
- 27 million subscribers: November 10, 2018
- 28 million subscribers: November 24, 2018
- 29 million subscribers: December 7, 2018
- 30 million subscribers: December 19, 2018
- 31 million subscribers: December 28, 2018
- 32 million subscribers: January 4, 2019
- 33 million subscribers: January 9, 2019
- 34 million subscribers: January 16, 2019
- 35 million subscribers: January 28, 2019
- 36 million subscribers: February 12, 2019
- 37 million subscribers: February 27, 2019
- 38 million subscribers: March 26, 2019
- 39 million subscribers: April 25, 2019
- 40 million subscribers: June 3, 2019
- 41 million subscribers: July 15, 2019
- 42 million subscribers: August 24, 2019
- 43 million subscribers: November 7, 2019
Decline[]
- Below 43 million subscribers: December 7, 2019
Regrowth[]
- 43 million subscribers: April 12, 2020
- 44 million subscribers: February 2, 2021
- 45 million subscribers: October 11, 2021
- 46 million subscribers: November 3, 2022
- 47 million subscríbete: August 17, 2023
Video View Milestones[]
- 1 billion views: November 12, 2017
- 2 billion views: February 9, 2018
- 3 billion views: April 20, 2018
- 4 billion views: June 12, 2018
- 5 billion views: July 21, 2018
- 6 billion views: September 16, 2018
- 7 billion views: November 11, 2018
- 8 billion views: December 22, 2018
- 9 billion views: January 17, 2019
- 10 billion views: February 15, 2019
- 11 billion views: March 28, 2019
- 12 billion views: May 18, 2019
- 13 billion views: July 11, 2019
- 14 billion views: August 31, 2019
- 15 billion views: November 29, 2019
- 16 billion views: April 24, 2020
- 17 billion views: January 11, 2021
- 18 billion views: December 4, 2021
- 19 billion views: January 5, 2023