Hamster Kombat is a YouTube channel owned by a popular cryptocurrency game of the same name, that broke multiple world records in late-May 2024 and has become the fastest-growing channel ever recorded.
History[]
Hamster Kombat is a mobile clicker game that was launched in early March 2024. It requires users to join their Telegram group, which has quickly amassed over 43.9 million subscribers as of June 23, 2024.[1] The game's premise involves being a hamster who is the CEO of a crypto exchange, with the goal being to build your exchange as much as possible by tapping a golden coin to earn in-game currency, so you can upgrade the exchange. Those coins can also be used to "boost" the amount of points earned per tap and the duration of the tap, with six free boosters that can be claimed daily.[2] Developers later launched $HMSTR, the game's official tradeable cryptocurrency token, for the TON blockchain on May 31, 2024.[3]
Hamster Kombat quickly attracted tens of millions of new game users and followers on their social media pages in May 2024 due to its wide appeal to mobile gamers and those looking to invest in cryptocurrency, and as of June 14, 2024 has 150+ million players and over 40 million active daily users, with 6.6+ million Twitter followers, and a YouTube channel that would stake its place into the platform's history.
YouTube presence[]
The Hamster Kombat YouTube channel was created at 11:01 am EST on May 24, 2024.[4] It quickly hit 1 million subscribers within 26 hours of its creation, which was celebrated in an announcement video posted on May 25. On May 27, the channel received its first major promotion on their Telegram page. Players who subscribed to the channel were rewarded tens of thousands of coins, and when combined with the exponential growth of the game's popularity and Telegram page, allowed its subscriber growth to explode in a manner unlike anything previously seen on YouTube.
Within twelve hours of the announcement being made, the channel gained over 2.4 million subscribers, gaining 2.7 million subscribers in total on the 27th. The next day, another promotion would allow the channel to break tomiii 11's one-day record of 2.9 million, with over 3.1 million subscribers gained on May 28, thereby becoming the first channel to surpass 3 million subscribers in a single day.[5] At 12:16 am EST on May 31, 2024, the channel hit 10 million subscribers, doing so in only 6 days, 13 hours, and 15 minutes, completely shattering Cosmo TV's record of 36 days.
As of June 21, 2024, the channel continues to average around 500,000 subscribers a day, and will likely continue growing at an extremely fast pace as long as their Telegram and player-base keep increasing exponentially.
Records claimed by Hamster Kombat[]
- Most subscribers gained in one day: ~3,110,000 on May 28, 2024 (This was later beaten by TapSwap Official, which gained ~3,540,000 on June 28)
- Most subscribers gained in two days: ~5,800,000 between May 27-28, 2024
- Most subscribers gained in three days: ~7,520,000 between May 27-29, 2024
- Most subscribers gained in five days: ~9,580,000 between May 27-31, 2024
- Most subscribers gained in one week: ~11,480,000 between May 27-June 2, 2024
- First YouTube channel to gain more than 10 million subscribers in one week
- Fastest channel to hit 10 million subscribers: 6 days, 13 hours, and 15 minutes
Channel milestones[]
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: May 25, 2024
- 2 million subscribers: May 27, 2024
- 3 million subscribers: May 27, 2024
- 4 million subscribers: May 27, 2024
- 5 million subscribers: May 28, 2024
- 6 million subscribers: May 28, 2024
- 7 million subscribers: May 28, 2024
- 8 million subscribers: May 29, 2024
- 9 million subscribers: May 30, 2024
- 10 million subscribers: May 31, 2024
- 11 million subscribers: May 31, 2024
- 12 million subscribers: June 2, 2024
- 13 million subscribers: June 3, 2024
- 14 million subscribers: June 3, 2024
- 15 million subscribers: June 4, 2024
- 16 million subscribers: June 5, 2024
- 17 million subscribers: June 6, 2024
- 18 million subscribers: June 8, 2024
- 19 million subscribers: June 9, 2024
- 20 million subscribers: June 10, 2024
- 21 million subscribers: June 11, 2024
- 22 million subscribers: June 13, 2024
- 23 million subscribers: June 15, 2024
- 24 million subscribers: June 17, 2024
- 25 million subscribers: June 19, 2024
- 26 million subscribers: June 21, 2024
- 27 million subscribers: June 22, 2024
- 28 million subscribers: June 23, 2024
- 29 million subscribers: June 25, 2024
- 30 million subscribers: June 27, 2024
- 31 million subscribers: June 30, 2024
- 32 million subscribers: July 4, 2024
- 33 million subscribers: July 7, 2024
- 34 million subscribers: July 20, 2024
- 35 million subscribers: August 11, 2024
Video view milestones[]
- 100 million views: June 7, 2024
- 200 million views: June 12, 2024
- 300 million views: June 15, 2024
- 400 million views: June 21, 2024
- 500 million views: June 27, 2024
- 600 million views: July 2, 2024
- 700 million views: July 7, 2024
- 800 million views: July 25, 2024
- 900 million views: August 16, 2024
References[]
- ↑ https://tgstat.com/channel/@hamster_kombat/stat
- ↑ https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-hamster-kombat-telegram-game-token-airdrop
- ↑ https://crypto.ro/en/news/hamster-kombat-hmstr-reaches-78m-players-with-31m-daily-active-users
- ↑ https://mattw.io/youtube-metadata/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fchannel%2FUCozwejESfvl88CBBL0KgEhw&submit=true
- ↑ https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCozwejESfvl88CBBL0KgEhw