Milestones
Five moments that explain the channel, plus a YouTube subscriber list. Crossing days that were not found stay blank.
He has said the pace started when he was 14 and that he had not missed a day. Mashable, in June 2026, described about six years of four posts a day. Fans treat the streak as the thing that made the channel recognizable.
He checked a YouTube channel named @carterpcs that was reuploading his videos. It had about 253,000 subscribers, roughly 20,000 more than @actuallycarterpcs. He said he had contacted them about suing. Dexerto and Business Insider both reported the clip.
He and Nathan Espinoza were both near 1 million YouTube subscribers and talked about it in public. Fans turned the numbers into a scoreboard. That is a fan-followed race, not a confirmed personal feud.
He said @carterpcs, then at 6.1 million followers, was removed for a community-guidelines violation, and that the reason was not explained beyond that. He kept posting on @carternotpcs and said the streak was not over. Later 2026 reports show the main account with a following again. He did not confirm a cause.
Builds and phone launches stayed, and commentary widened to AI data centers, consoles, cars, and company decisions. By late August 2026, public listings put him near 7 million on TikTok and about 3.3 million on YouTube. Those figures are approximate.
These rows are for @actuallycarterpcs. A later snapshot proving the count was already past a number is not the crossing day. History still lists 10,000 through 500,000, 2 million, and 3 million as gaps.
| Milestone | When | What the record shows |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | Not established | No crossing date was found in this pass. |
| 50,000 | Not established | No crossing date was found in this pass. |
| 100,000 | Not established | No crossing date was found in this pass. This is also the silver play-button threshold; no 100,000 plaque clip is in History. |
| 250,000 | Not established | The December 2023 copycat story is a snapshot around that week, not the day he crossed 250,000. |
| 500,000 | Not established | No crossing date was found in this pass. |
| 1,000,000 | By June 28–29, 2024 | He posted “Ordering my 1,000,000 subscriber play button.” That places 1 million before the upload. The minute the count flipped is still a gap. The June 2024 race finish with Nathan Espinoza is estimated. |
| 2,000,000 | By June 2, 2026 | Mashable said YouTube was past 2 million that day. That is a floor, not the crossing day. |
| 3,000,000 | By late August 2026 | Public listings around then put YouTube at about 3.3 million. Approximate, not a crossing clock. |
| 4,000,000 | Not reached in this archive | Social Blade’s header on October 16, 2026 listed 3.81 million, rounded. That is a tracker snapshot, not a 4 million crossing. |