MrBeast

Jimmy Donaldson (born: May 7, 1998), more commonly known as his YouTube channel name, MrBeast, and formerly known as MrBeast6000 (his old channel name), is an American YouTuber residing in Greenville, North Carolina. He is currently known for doing a wide variety of expensive challenge videos that reward thousands of dollars, donation videos involving a lot of money, videos either with arduous tasks or survival, original vlogging videos, and more.

He has an estimated net worth of around 20 million dollars (currently; number may vary). In many of his videos, he budgets thousands and thousands of dollars, but of course, it depends on the video, like if he is buying something expensive, donating a lot of money to people, or hosting a challenge with his friends; it all requires a large amount of money.

He started this channel in 2012 at the age of 13. He was initially known for uploading the "Worst Intros" series, a series of videos where he reviewed small pre-teen YouTubers with funny or "bad" intros. Over the years, as he gained more sponsor money, he became a lot more generous and helpful to others.

With unrelenting passion and devotion to finishing arduous, yet creative, challenges, Jimmy has become an extremely popular YouTuber in recent years, and one of the most subscribed non-corporate YouTube channels, having over 45 million subscribers as of middle October 2020. His main channel is the 23rd most subscribed channel in the world and the 10th most subscribed channel in the United States.

Personality
Jimmy is particularly generous and kind, as shown by his donations and giveaways. He's also humble, as he doesn't flaunt his money. He has a very polite personality.

Biography
Not much is known about Jimmy's childhood, except that he has two brothers and it appears that Jimmy doesn't have any contact with his father. He started his YouTube channel at the age of thirteen, under the name "MrBeast6000." He has a girlfriend named Maddy.

YouTube Career
Jimmy officially started his YouTube channel on February 19, 2012. He first started uploading gaming videos, and the first video game that he recorded was Minecraft. After a year, Jimmy started recording other games such as Pokemon Online, Black Ops 2, and Battle Pirates. He also started his first series where he talks about how much each YouTuber earns, the first being PewDiePie.

After two years, Jimmy stopped making gaming videos and started to make discussion videos, where he would discuss many random topics that he wanted to. On April 18, 2015, Jimmy officially had 2,000 people subscribed on his channel, which led to him deciding to make a video about it, being grateful for the success.

As time went by, Jimmy's channel was growing at a normal speed, until he released the "Drinking Windex Prank On Mom" video.

Beast Reacts
MrBeast made a second channel for watching and reviewing lifehacks called Beast Reacts. This channel mostly stars his friends, but he has appeared on it multiple times.

The Beast Reacts channel was originally called Mr.Beast. He later changed it to its current name so it could be searched for easier.

See Also List of Beast Reacts videos

MrBeast Gaming
In May 2020, he started a gaming channel named MrBeast Gaming, releasing 3 videos every week. It has over 10 million subscribers as of November 2020, making it one of the fastest-growing channels in terms of subscriber count. It acts as a successor to his older gaming videos on his main channel. MrBeast's friends Chris, Chandler, and Karl, always appear in these videos. The game that is mainly played on this channel is Minecraft, but the crew plays other games like Grand Theft Auto V, Among Us, Fall Guys, and more.

See Also Category:Gaming videos

MrBeast Shorts
Jimmy also has a MrBeast Shorts channel where he uploads vertical clips that last less than a minute. These clips show him and his friends doing random things. These types of videos are shown in the "Short Videos" panel.

See Also List of MrBeast shorts

MrBeast 2
It is an alternative channel of MrBeast for miscellaneous videos. This channel only has the MrBeast Riddle and a live stream of him signing shirts for 6 hours straight.

Don’t Subscribe
Along with UK YouTuber JackSucksAtLife he created the channel Don’t Subscribe. He gives ten cents to Jack for every subscriber. The challenge is up to 1,000,000 subscribers or $100,000.

MrBeast Extra
Jimmy uploaded the second $200,000 Youtuber Battle Royale video on this channel.

Advertising PewDiePie
On October 24, 2018, Jimmy made a video called, I Bought Every Billboard in my City to do this. In the video, Jimmy used multiple billboards around his city to advertise PewDiePie and to prevent a music company, T-Series, from surpassing PewDiePie in subscribers. Additionally, Jimmy created online ads to advertise PewDiePie that, when clicked, redirects to PewDiePie's channel.

Jimmy also advertised PewDiePie on public posts, newspapers, and the radio, the PewDiePie advertisements have garnered significant attention locally and globally, causing PewDiePie's channel to grow at a faster rate than T-Series. T-Series was approximately less than 100,000 subscribers away from becoming the most subscribed channel up until the release of Jimmy's video, which temporarily halted the channel's growth. Likewise, Jimmy's channel had also gained exponential growth off of the video and the advertisement, which he had mentioned himself on multiple occasions.

Saying PewDiePie 100,000 Times
Even after Jimmy advertised PewDiePie with billboards, it did not stop T-Series from slowing down from PewDiePie longer. T-Series was approximately 90,000 subscribers away from surpassing PewDiePie before Jimmy made another video to keep PewDiePie #1 most subscribed. On November 25, 2018, Jimmy says PewDiePie 100,000 times. At the start of the video, Jimmy tells his fans and new-comers to subscribe to PewDiePie and to help him win the war. The subscriber growth was given to PewDiePie once again, gaining 244,000 subscribers the day of Jimmy's upload, and 247,000 subscribers the next day. Jimmy also gained major exposure from the video and gained 181,000 subscribers on the day of its upload, which is Jimmy's fastest growth in terms of subscribers in the past 24 hours. Jimmy also gained 151,000 subscribers the next day.

Surrender
Even after Jimmy helped out PewDiePie, PewDiePie made a tweet, It looks like this is it boys. with a picture of a text saying Dawn of The Final Day 24 Hours Remain, in which PewDiePie now surrenders his #1 most subscribed title, as T-Series growth had not stopped. Jimmy also made a tweet responding to PewDiePie saying It was an honor fighting by your side, in which Jimmy gives up and can no longer help PewDiePie further, possibly to prevent lack of PewDiePie videos from Jimmy, as it can get weaker along the way.

Advertising PewDiePie at the Super Bowl
On February 3, Jimmy and his affiliates made plans to try and advertise fellow YouTuber PewDiePie's channel while attending Super Bowl LIII (53). To do so, Jimmy bought seats next to one of the end zones, with him and his affiliates wearing shirts ultimately spelling out "SUB 2 PEWDIEPIE" to be seen during one of the field goals. The attempt was broadcasted on live television, with approximately 110 million viewers watching the game. ESPN later tweeted a picture of one of the field goals, subsequently featuring Jimmy's ad. Afterward, PewDiePie's growth grew from 50,000 subscribers to 277,000 subscribers in a single day.

Livestream Giveaways
Jimmy has received criticism for his usage of clickbait to make money and obtain subscribers. Although he continues to do it, not much has changed from where he had begun. A YouTuber known as iox exposed Jimmy for starting several fake gift card giveaways by mocking other YouTubers (who have done such giveaways) at the end of his videos.

MrBeast "Faking" His Videos
On April 4, 2018, a YouTuber is known as FlyyDoesYT posted a video claiming that Jimmy's videos are fake, and only stars in the beginning (such as in I Tipped Waitresses $20,000) and that he has multiple employees who are miserable working for him, the next day, DramaAlert had an interview with Jimmy about the situation. In response, Jimmy stated that his videos are not fake, his employees love working for him, and he has spent at least $500,000 donating and giving out to people in his videos. He has also confirms that he has Crohn's disease, stating that it's the reason why he was not in the entire "I Tipped Waitresses $20,000" video. He even mentions that none of his videos are fake. Fans have since defended Jimmy, and FlyyDoesYT has gotten negative responses over his video because of it.

Controversial Thumbnail
When Jimmy released one of his older viral videos, "Can 20,000 Magnets Stop a Bullet Mid Air?", (which quickly became Jimmy's most viewed video of his in 3 days), the video became pretty controversial due to the thumbnail. The thumbnail does show Jimmy firing an AK weapon towards another person (Chris, Jimmy's roommate at the time), while it did not happen in the video. YouTube has made its Guidelines more strict about guns in videos and thumbnails, especially with it affecting Gun Channels.

People say Jimmy's thumbnail is breaking YouTube's Community Guidelines because of what the thumbnail contains, saying it's misleading and harmful. Due to the criticism that followed, the thumbnail had been changed to not include the person on the opposite side. At the time before the video was removed, it had received a mass amount of dislikes ever recorded on Jimmy's YouTube channel at the time, at least a 25% dislike ratio, and a 75% like ratio. The controversial video (although it was removed or set to private by Jimmy at an unspecified time) was reuploaded on June 31, 2019, by the fan posing as MrBeast's YouTube Channel, only with Chris being excluded from its thumbnail. Still, the video continues to remain available online.

Giving Away Fake Money
In Jimmy's video titled "I Opened A FREE BANK", people started to claim that Jimmy never actually gave away the money as he shows in his videos. Their evidence was that in one frame of the video, you could see that the money he had given to someone was "prop money" that would have been used in films. This also appeared on Drama Alert, where Keemstar defended him using the disclaimer Jimmy had put in the video description. The statement said:

"We used motion picture money when making this video. Everyone who received money in the video were paid by check after they left for security purposes (I can’t just carry 6 figures in cash lol). Everyone received 100% of the money they were given." After this was shown on Drama Alert, people started to believe Jimmy.

Last Youtuber To Leave Wins $100,000 - Challenge
Jimmy had planned a video for multiple YouTubers to win 100 grand for a long time. It had finally been released on December 12, 2018, on the Jimmy channel. 12 YouTubers decided to join the challenge to win $100,000.

The rules were as stated: you cannot lay down, you cannot sit down, you can't leave the circle (regardless if you have 1 foot out), and you will be wearing a vest and having 2 lbs added onto the vest every hour to make it more challenging and tiring for the competitors.


 * Results

$200,000 Youtuber Battle Royale
On February 15, 2019, Jimmy announced he will be doing a real-life YouTuber battle royale on March 6; the winner gets $100,000. It was an inspiration to Dude Perfect's Airsoft Battle Royale. Team Green won the challenge.

The video was released on March 12, 2019, at 6 PM EST.


 * Teams & Results

Other Challenges
These are the challenges Jimmy's friends have done, with high earnings.

TeamTrees – Planting 20 Million Trees

 * Main article: Team Trees

Team Trees, also known as #teamtrees, is a collaborative fundraiser that managed to raise 20 million U.S. dollars before 2020 to plant 20 million trees. This initiative was founded by MrBeast and Mark Rober and it was supported by a large part of the YouTube community as a whole, including some YouTube personalities.

All donations go to the Arbor Day Foundation, a tree-planting organization that pledges to plant one tree for every U.S. dollar donated. The Arbor Day Foundation planned to begin planting in January 2020 and end "no later than December 2022".

It is estimated that 20 million trees would take up 180 square kilometers (69 square miles) of land, absorb around 1.6 million tons of carbon and remove 116 thousand tons of chemical air pollution from the atmosphere.

Quidd
Quidd has often sponsored Jimmy for him to do his expensive videos, which often helped him gain a majority of his growth. Because of Quidd, Jimmy made the longest Uber Ride (which was 2,256 miles from North Carolina to California) and Tipping Pizza Delivery Guys $10,000. All of the money Jimmy had used in making those videos was from Quidd. Quidd also helped him make Donating $10,000 To Random Twitch Streamers, Giving Homeless People $1,000 (Not Clickbait), and 'Giving A Random Homeless Man $10,000', all gaining astonishing amounts of views.

Honey
Honey is a browser extension that automatically finds and applies coupon codes at checkout and saves money for the customer. Jimmy frequently advertises Honey in his videos and has also become an active advertiser for Honey on YouTube videos for monetized content creators. Honey has helped Jimmy with many videos for example when he did Last To Take Hand Off $1,000,000 Keeps It. Ads for Honey with Jimmy in it or on it have become very common.

Apex Legends
Apex Legends is a battle royale game that sponsored Jimmy for $200,000 to make "$200,000 Youtuber Battle Royale". They also sponsored the video "Donating $100,000 To Shroud In Real Life" to donate for every kill they got.

Dragon City
Dragon City is a game where one collects, battles, and levels up dragons. For a promotion with the game, Jimmy made the videos, "Giving $100,000 To A Homeless Person" and "$70,000 Extreme Hide And Seek - Challenge". Because of these sponsorships, Dragon City created two MrBeast-styled dragons for players to use in-game. The dragons are modeled after his current YouTube logo.

TikTok
TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service that sponsored Jimmy in the video "Guess The Right Cup, Win $100,000".

Subscriber Milestones

 * 300 subscribers: August 2, 2013
 * 1,000 subscribers: April 14, 2014
 * 1,500 subscribers: August 9, 2014
 * 2,000 subscribers: April 19, 2015
 * 3,000 subscribers: July 19, 2015
 * 4,000 subscribers: July 29, 2015
 * 5,000 subscribers: August 11, 2015
 * 6,000 subscribers: August 23, 2015
 * 7,000 subscribers: September 9, 2015
 * 9,000 subscribers: October 11, 2015
 * 10,000 subscribers: October 28, 2015
 * 15,000 subscribers: December 25, 2015
 * 20,000 subscribers: March 7, 2016
 * 50,000 subscribers: June 11, 2016
 * 100,000 subscribers: July 8, 2016
 * 200,000 subscribers: September 26, 2016
 * 1 million subscribers: May 6, 2017
 * 1 million subscribers: February 10, 2019 (BeastHacks)
 * 1 million subscribers: May 24, 2020 (MrBeast Gaming)
 * 1 million subscribers: September 17, 2020 (MrBeast 2)
 * 1 million subscribers: September 19, 2020 (MrBeast Shorts)
 * 2 million subscribers: December 29, 2017
 * 2 million subscribers: August 15, 2019 (BeastHacks)
 * 2 million subscribers: June 19, 2020 (MrBeast Gaming)
 * 3 million subscribers: February 12, 2018
 * 3 million subscribers: July 5, 2020 (MrBeast Gaming)
 * 3 million subscribers: August 5, 2020 (BeastHacks)
 * 4 million subscribers: March 28, 2018
 * 4 million subscribers: July 16, 2020 (MrBeast Gaming)
 * 5 million subscribers: May 29, 2018
 * 5 million subscribers: August 7, 2020 (MrBeast Gaming)
 * 6 million subscribers: July 15, 2018
 * 6 million subscribers: August 16, 2020 (MrBeast Gaming)
 * 7 million subscribers: August 4, 2018
 * 7 million subscribers: August 26, 2020 (MrBeast Gaming)
 * 8 million subscribers: September 9, 2018
 * 8 million subscribers: September 22, 2020 (MrBeast Gaming)
 * 9 million subscribers: October 25, 2018
 * 10 million subscribers: November 6, 2018
 * 11 million subscribers: November 25, 2018
 * 12 million subscribers: December 8, 2018
 * 13 million subscribers: December 22, 2018
 * 14 million subscribers: January 19, 2019
 * 15 million subscribers: February 15, 2019
 * 16 million subscribers: March 16, 2019
 * 17 million subscribers: April 13, 2019
 * 18 million subscribers: May 4, 2019
 * 19 million subscribers: May 21, 2019
 * 20 million subscribers: June 8, 2019
 * 21 million subscribers: June 23, 2019
 * 22 million subscribers: July 27, 2019
 * 23 million subscribers: August 22, 2019
 * 24 million subscribers: September 6, 2019
 * 25 million subscribers: October 25, 2019
 * 26 million subscribers: November 15, 2019
 * 27 million subscribers: December 11, 2019
 * 28 million subscribers: December 25, 2019
 * 29 million subscribers: January 25, 2020
 * 30 million subscribers: February 14, 2020
 * 31 million subscribers: February 28, 2020
 * 32 million subscribers: March 12, 2020
 * 33 million subscribers: March 24, 2020
 * 34 million subscribers: April 14, 2020
 * 35 million subscribers: May 18, 2020
 * 36 million subscribers: June 4, 2020
 * 37 million subscribers: June 15, 2020
 * 38 million subscribers: July 5, 2020
 * 39 million subscribers: July 23, 2020
 * 40 million subscribers: August 5, 2020
 * 41 million subscribers: August 15, 2020
 * 42 million subscribers: August 23, 2020
 * 43 million subscribers: September 14, 2020
 * 44 million subscribers: September 28, 2020
 * 45 million subscribers: October 17, 2020

Video View Milestones

 * 1 billion views: October 7, 2018
 * 1.1 billion views: October 26, 2018
 * 1.2 billion views: November 7, 2018
 * 1.3 billion views: November 23, 2018
 * 1.4 billion views: December 3, 2018
 * 1.5 billion views: December 13, 2018
 * 1.6 billion views: December 26, 2018
 * 1.7 billion views: January 13, 2019
 * 1.8 billion views: January 29, 2019
 * 1.9 billion views: February 11, 2019
 * 2 billion views: February 28, 2019
 * 2.1 billion views: March 17, 2019
 * 2.2 billion views: April 4, 2019
 * 2.3 billion views: April 20, 2019
 * 2.4 billion views: May 1, 2019
 * 2.5 billion views: May 17, 2019
 * 2.6 billion views: May 29, 2019
 * 2.7 billion views: June 8, 2019
 * 2.8 billion views: June 14, 2019, & July 4, 2019
 * 2.9 billion views: June 24, 2019, & July 14, 2019
 * 3 billion views: August 4, 2019
 * 3.1 billion views: August 16, 2019
 * 3.2 billion views: August 23, 2019
 * 3.3 billion views: August 30, 2019
 * 3.4 billion views: September 12, 2019
 * 3.5 billion views: September 30, 2019
 * 3.6 billion views: October 20, 2019
 * 3.7 billion views: October 30, 2019
 * 3.8 billion views: November 11, 2019
 * 3.9 billion views: November 21, 2019
 * 4 billion views: December 2, 2019
 * 4.1 billion views: December 10, 2019
 * 4.2 billion views: December 21, 2019
 * 4.3 billion views: December 29, 2019
 * 4.4 billion views: January 13, 2020
 * 4.5 billion views: January 27, 2020
 * 4.6 billion views: February 6, 2020
 * 4.7 billion views: February 16, 2020
 * 4.8 billion views: March 7, 2020
 * 4.9 billion views: March 15, 2020
 * 5 billion views: March 24, 2020
 * 5.1 billion views: April 4, 2020
 * 5.2 billion views: April 17, 2020
 * 5.3 billion views: April 29, 2020
 * 5.4 billion views: May 11, 2020
 * 5.5 billion views: May 24, 2020
 * 5.6 billion views: May 31, 2020
 * 5.7 billion views: June 5, 2020
 * 5.8 billion views: June 10, 2020
 * 5.9 billion views: June 16, 2020
 * 6 billion views: June 24, 2020
 * 6.1 billion views: July 4, 2020
 * 6.2 billion views: July 10, 2020
 * 6.3 billion views: July 18, 2020
 * 6.4 billion views: July 27, 2020
 * 6.5 billion views: August 3, 2020
 * 6.6 billion views: August 9, 2020
 * 6.7 billion views: August 14, 2020
 * 6.8 billion views: August 18, 2020
 * 6.9 billion views: August 24, 2020
 * 7 billion views: September 3, 2020
 * 7.1 billion views: September 16, 2020
 * 7.2 billion views: September 22, 2020
 * 7.3 billion views: September 30, 2020
 * 7.4 billion views: October 8, 2020
 * 7.5 billion views: October 15, 2020

Quotes

 * "If you listen to the ears, you get... water....."
 * "You can't lose if you break the prize! "
 * "Last to leave (Various Place) wins (Various Reward)"

Trivia

 * Jimmy hosted a meme review for PewDiePie, one week after Elon Musk did.
 * His video Make This Video The Most Liked Video On YouTube is the most liked non-music video on YouTube, and one of the two non-music videos in the top 50 most liked videos on YouTube.
 * It is also the second most rated (likes and dislikes combined) non-music video, behind YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind (the most disliked video on the platform).
 * In the video, he said his goal was to make it the second most liked non-music video, which was a spot the video held for four months before overtaking YouTube Rewind 2018 but it's actually good.
 * After his video became the most liked video, Jimmy made a tweet telling people to change their like to a dislike since he didn’t want to take the title from PewDiePie. Grandayy did that favor as a "sacrifice."
 * Jimmy is currently dating Maddy Spidell. They have been dating since June 2019 and met through Twitter.  She has so far appeared in only a few of Jimmy's videos, such as Surprising My Girlfriend With 100,000 Roses For Valentines Day and I Adopted EVERY Dog In A Dog Shelter.
 * He was born in Kansas, United States, but was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina.
 * He bought a private island for about $730,000. It is confirmed to be Golding Cay Island in The Bahamas, but Chandler has unofficially named the island as "Jeff". Chandler would win the island but eventually sold it due to taxes.
 * He called YouTuber EthosLab's Minecraft Lets Play series the "Best series on YouTube" in a comment on this Etho video.
 * MrBeast is 6’3”.
 * He likes the popular anime series Naruto.
 * He went to college for 2 weeks but hated it. He thought his YouTube career was a viable career option.