How a YouTuber racked up 100 million subscribers without saying a word

After a decade spent directing live shows for in-person audiences, Kim Dong-jun moved his stage online — and ended up building the world’s most-watched YouTube channel of 2025. Known to viewers as Kimpro, he leads a shorts-first channel that logged about 77.53 billion views last year, according to Playboard, a YouTube rankings analysis site. In