MrBeast is an American YouTuber. He is best known for his expensive stunts and philanthropy.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about him.
- His real name is Jimmy Donaldson
- He was born on May 7, 1998
- He is more commonly known by his online alias MrBeast
- MrBeast is an American YouTuber notable for his expensive stunts and philanthropy
- He has been credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that center on expensive stunts
- He is also the co-creator of Team Trees
- Team Trees a fundraiser for the Arbor Day Foundation, which has raised over $22 million
- Donaldson began posting videos to YouTube in 2011 at age 13, under the handle “MrBeast6000”
- His early content ranged from Let’s Plays to “videos estimating the wealth of other YouTubers”
- However, his videos remained in relative obscurity, averaging around a thousand views each
- He released his 2017 “counting to 100,000” video that earned tens of thousands of views in just a few days
- As of December 2020, Donaldson has 47.3 million subscribers on YouTube
- He is managed by the Dallas-based talent management company Night Media
- Donaldson’s videos typically feature “attention-grabbing stunts”
- He often makes videos where he donates large amounts of money to individuals, with many of these videos being sponsored
- Although he has donated without a sponsor in the past
- On January 2017, Donaldson published an almost day-long video of himself counting to 100,000
- The stunt took him 40 hours, with some parts sped up to “keep it under 24 hours”
- A subsequent video titled “Counting to 200,000 (Road to a Mil)” was uploaded the next month
- According to Donaldson, it too, had to be sped up because the full fifty-five hours of counting exceeded YouTube’s upload limit
- Additionally, Donaldson has tried to break glass using a hundred megaphones, watched paint dry for an hour, attempted to stay underwater for 24 hours (but failed because of health issues), and unsuccessfully attempted to spin a fidget spinner for a day, although the footage is gone
- In March 2019, he organized and filmed a real-life battle royale competition in Los Angeles with a prize of $200,000
- 2 games were played, making game earnings of $100,000 for each game
- This video was in collaboration with Apex Legends
- The event and prize pool was sponsored by Apex Legends publisher Electronic Arts
- A typical video involves Donaldson giving away large sums of money
- Such as giving $100,000 worth of items to homeless shelters in December 2018, donating $32,000 to the Veterans Army Wounded Warrior Program, $70,000 to Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and $10,000 to a local animal shelter in Los Angeles
- His expensive YouTube videos are mostly funded and sponsored by the coupon company Honey
- During PewDiePie vs T-Series, a competition to become the most-subscribed channel on YouTube, Donaldson bought billboards, numerous ads and radio advertisements to help PewDiePie gain more subscribers than T-Series
- At the Super Bowl LIII, he bought multiple seats for him and his team whose shirts spelled out, “Sub 2 PewDiePie”
- On October 25, 2019 at 19:00 UTC, Donaldson and former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober organized a collaborative fundraising challenge event on YouTube called #TeamTrees
- The goal of this project was to raise $20 million for the Arbor Day Foundation by January 1, 2020 and plant trees “no later than December 2022”
- In exchange, the organization would plant one tree for each dollar raised
- Every donation goes to the Arbor Day Foundation which pledges to plant one tree for every dollar
- Notable YouTubers such as Rhett & Link, Marshmello, iJustine, Marques Brownlee, The Slow Mo Guys, Ninja, Simone Giertz, Jacksepticeye, and Smarter Every Day brought attention to this idea
- Trees began to be planted in October 2019 in national parks of the United States
- By the 24-hour mark of the 67-day project, nearly $4 million had been donated
- On December 19 of that year, the $20,000,000 goal was surpassed
- And as of May 27, 2020, the project reached over 22 million dollars
- The project has also received large donations from corporate executives Jack Dorsey, Susan Wojcicki, Elon Musk and Tobias Lütke
- Will Hyde, a producer for the MrBeast channel, announced in a November 2020 article with The Wake Weekly that Donaldson would launch a virtual restaurant called MrBeast Burger in December 2020
- Hyde said his team worked with Virtual Dining Concepts during the development of the restaurant concept
- MrBeast Burger will franchise rights to serve the burgers to restaurants across the US and customers will be able to order the burgers via online delivery services
- On December 19, 2020 it was announced that MrBeast Burger would release with 300 locations across the United States
- The chain would also have an app
- Donaldson was born on May 7, 1998
- He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina
- He graduated from the Greenville Christian Academy in 2016
- According to Newsweek, Donaldson dropped out of college in order to pursue a full-time career as a YouTuber
- He has an older brother named CJ Donaldson
- His older brother owns a channel named “MrBro”
- Donaldson suffers from Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition
- He is in a relationship with Instagram model Maddy Spidell
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