Age-by-age answers

Judged one video at a time, ten is the age this channel fits best: 133 of our 314 picks land in the 10-11 band. The trouble at this age is not the video, it is everything queued up behind it.

133 of the 314 MrBeast videos on our shelf sit in our 10-11 band, so at eleven you are not short of options. The question quietly changes this year: from what you allow to what they notice.

Three of the 978 MrBeast videos we watched suit a four or five-year-old, and together they last seventy-two seconds. Here is where that leaves you at five, and what to offer instead when an older sibling has already made the choice.

Six is usually the age the request stops arriving second-hand and starts coming from your own child. Seventeen of the 978 videos we watched suit six and seven-year-olds, and the honest answer at this age is yes to those, picked by you.

At seven, MrBeast is social currency: knowing the videos is being in on the joke at school. Seventeen of the 978 uploads we reviewed clear our 6-7 band, and those are the ones that buy a place in it without the rest of the channel coming along too.

Eight is the age the shelf finally has range: 161 of our 314 picks land in the 8-9 band. Which turns the question from whether to allow it into which ones.

Nine is often the year a child stops being handed videos and starts finding their own. 161 of our MrBeast picks suit this band, so the question moves from what to watch to what to set up first.

We reviewed 978 MrBeast uploads one at a time and put 314 on the Piko shelf. Here's exactly where those picks land, age band by age band, and why 8 and up is where most of them sit.