YouTube star Matthew Beem just built the world's largest ice cream cone, using 1,000 pounds of ice cream that literally melted as he put it together

• Matthew Beem is a YouTuber known for building large props and objects in his videos.
• His most recent YouTube upload shows him breaking a record for the world's largest ice cream cone.

YouTube star Matthew Beem, who is known for building large objects and props in his videos, has now broken a world record with his craft, having put together the world's largest ice cream cone.

Beem, who has 4.1 million subscribers, has previously made Minecraft models, a giant toilet seat, and huge boxing gloves in his YouTube videos. He has also partnered with prominent YouTube creators on these projects, even making a version of the doll from the Netflix show "Squid Game" for a collaboration with the platform's biggest name, MrBeast.

On June 14, Beem uploaded a video titled, "I Made The World's Largest Ice Cream Cone!" in which he said that he and his team were attempting to build a cone that was over 10 feet tall to beat the previous record that was set in 2015, according to Guinness World Records.

The YouTuber and his team got to work on the project by making a large metal frame to support the cone, building a compartment inside that was filled with dry ice to keep the ice cream colder for longer, and using a waffle maker to make pieces of the cone that they stuck together using chocolate.

Beem partnered with the US snack company MuddyBites, who he said he consulted with on a chocolate recipe, as well as on other logistics, to complete the project.

Throughout the video, Beem said he and his team encountered several issues while trying to break the world record. They initially struggled to make their pieces of waffle stick to their chocolate cone, and then when they drove from the site where they built the cone to the event where the world record would be checked, they noticed that a number of waffle pieces had fallen off the structure and needed to be stuck back on.

As Beem and his teammates began filling the cone with ice cream, hoping that the finished structure would be over 10 feet tall, some of the soft serve ice cream began to melt and fell to the ground, due to the warm weather conditions at the event.

"It's melting so quick," one bystander at the event observed.

When the YouTuber and his team had finished working on the project, they filmed a representative from the World Record Academy measuring the cone, determining that Beem had broken the record by producing a structure that was 11 feet tall.

A representative for MuddyBites told Insider that the YouTuber used 100 pounds of waffle cone, 300 pounds of chocolate, and over 1,000 pounds of vanilla ice cream to break the record.

In a statement given to Insider, Beem said that breaking the world record required "extensive planning" and determination from his team, saying, "There were moments where I really thought this cone wouldn't make the almost two-hour drive from where it was originally built to our measurement site, but because my team is so amazing we were able to maintain its integrity and continue the build the day of."

Commenters under the video said they admired the YouTuber for the huge amount of effort it seems he puts into making his videos about building large objects.

"I love the creativity and originality of this video, it's so refreshing to see something new on YouTube," one commenter wrote.

Beem previously told Insider that he has been making content across various YouTube channels for over a decade, but his current main channel suddenly started to blow up in 2021, after he made a custom car for MrBeast, who is currently the most-followed individual YouTuber in the world. At the time, Beem had 19,000 subscribers, but later that year, he gained 1.2 million followers over a six-month period, according to analytics tracker SocialBlade.

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