These are your favorite YouTuber's favorite YouTubers, or at least those that JackSepticEye believes to be the most monumental names on the platform.
"Who is on your personal Mount Rushmore?" – Over time this question popped up more and more. First, people were asking others about their Twitch Mount Rushmore, now, in an interview with Dexerto, JackSepticEye named who he would put on a YouTube Mount Rushmore.
Mount Rushmore Of Content Creators
In 2025, Kai Cenat asked Twitch CEO Dan Clancy who he would put on his Twitch Mount Rushmore. Though the question itself is not necessarily new, the controversy surrounding Dan's answer directed more attention to it than ever before. While Clancy told Kai that he would be on his Mount Rushmore, the Twitch CEO quickly retracted that statement later, claiming he only said that because it was Kai who asked him.
That obviously bothered a lot of people and opened up the question: If people built a streamer Mount Rushmore, who would deserve to be on it? And apparently that question didn't stay on Twitch – in a recent Dexerto interview with JackSepticEye, the YouTuber answered with his own candidates for a YouTube Mount Rushmore.
The Foundation Of YouTube As It Is Today
The way JackSepticEye approached this question was very reasonable. It seems as though he was really considering who he would consider the foundation of YouTube: Who started certain types of content? Who has been loved by pretty much all sides of YouTube? He states:
We gotta put Felix on there just because he put Let's Plays on the map for a lot of us. [...] Smosh are on that as well for the exact same reasons.
Though he is friends with PewDiePie (Felix), his reasoning makes a lot of sense: PewDiePie has pioneered gaming content on YouTube for a lot of people. Smosh were and still are an inspiration for a lot of others. Next he says:
Weirdly enough, I think I would put Ryan Higa on the Mount Rushmore. [...] And up there as well is Jenna Marbles. Just up until she quit, she was still incredible.
Jenna Marbles and Ryan Higa fit the group he named before perfectly: YouTubers that have been around for what feels like decades and who have inspired hundreds, if not thousands of other people to try YouTube as well.
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