portrait With 112 million subscribers on his channel, MrBeast has become the most followed youtuber in the world, ahead of his predecessor, the Swedish PewDiePie
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YouTube star MrBeast now has 112 million subscribers on his channel, a global record. — Dave Kotinsky
- On November 11, Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, crossed the 112 million subscriber mark, becoming the most followed YouTuber on the platform ahead of his predecessor, Sweden’s PewDiePie.
- This 24-year-old American rose to fame through videos of absurd dares and cash donations filmed to strangers.
- ‘YouTube Philanthropist’, Elon Musk fan, multi-millionaire star… Who is MrBeast?
Sitting at his office, his blond streak on the side; Like Justin Bieber, a young man explains that he is going to take on a challenge: that of counting to a number. 100,000 without stopping. For more than 24 hours, facing the camera, he lists the numbers one by one. a. Arrived at the fateful number, he smiles, slumps in his chair and simply blurts out: “What am I doing with my life?”. If the video, published on YouTube in 2017, seems innocuous, it has nevertheless been viewed over 26 million times.
And for good reason, the young man is none other than Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, one of the most famous youtubers in the world. The one who built his popularity digital thanks to; absurd challenges and money donations filmed became, on November 11, the most followed videographer on the platform. With 112’million subscribers, the 24-year-old American has managed the feat of dethroning Sweden’s PewDiePie – and his 111 million subscribers – number one on the chart since August 2013.
Absurd Challenges
Jimmy Donaldson is only 13 years old, in 2012, when he begins to posting his first videos on YouTube, under the pseudonym “MrBeast6000”. In his teenage bedroom Greenville, North Carolina, it publishes content called Let’s Plays, where he films himself playing at; video games, such as Minecraft and Call of Duty.The young boy then begins to produce dozens and dozens of videos rating the wealth of other youtubers. But at At this time, success was relative. It’s only in 2017, when the famous video “I count until’ 100,000”, that MrBeast reached a first level, collecting thousands of views in just a few days, explains Newsweek in an article dedicated to to youtuber. The following month, he repeats the experience by challenging himself to count to 200,000.
But what will really make his success – and his fortune – he offers several thousand dollars to youtubers and streamers from the Twitch platform. Without ever stopping this format, the young man develops another one in parallel, that of setting himself absurd challenges: cutting a car with a hot sword. 1,000 degrees, pour 100 million marbles into a friend’s garden, break glass using a hundred megaphones, build the biggest bowl of cereal in the world or even spend 50 hours buried living in a coffin. A list that we could go on and on for a long time as there are so many MrBeast videos.
A special Squid Game video
And if his subscribers love him so much, it’s also because the young man shows great generosity. In many videos, he puts himself on the stage to offer millions of dollars to others. people in need. Here, 20,000 dollars & rsquo; a waitress there, 10,000 dollars to pay. a pizza delivery or àgrave; an Uber driver or even 20,000 dollars to; a homeless. Donations that even earned him the nickname “Youtube’s Greatest Philanthropist”, according to an article in New York Times.
Jimmy Donaldson doesn’t stop there; and multiplies charity content. Like this video where he buys 100,000 euros of basic necessities, that of a donation of 32,000 dollars to the Army Wounded Warrior Program, which takes care of American veterans injured in combat, or another in which it finances ààgrave; $70,000 to Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital Memphis (Tennessee). In October 2019, he launched an online fundraiser, titled #TeamTrees, to plant a tree in Montreal. every dollar raised. Results of the operation, 20,000 trees will be reforested. Two years later, he is continuing the experiment with #TeamSeas, raising $30 million to remove 13,000 tons of waste from the ocean.
But MrBeast’s greatest success is probably the video where Mr. he recreated the game from the Squid Game series with 456 subscribers. In front of his camera, in a reconstructed setting to the exact, the participants competed on the famous tests of the Netflix production. The winner pocketed; the nice sum of 456,000 dollars, or 400,000 euros. The video, viewed 304 million times, has been widely relayed on social networks and in many media, making the young man famous beyond from planet YouTube.
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The Grail, Jimmy Donaldson reached it on July 28, 2022, crossing the 100 million subscriber mark. His channel then became the fifth on YouTube at the time. exceed this figure. To celebrate this success, the young man brings 100 of his subscribers to an island he bought a few months earlier and organizes a giant competition. At the end of several tests, the winner wins neither more nor less than the island. A few months later, on November 11, 2022, MrBeast bought 1,111 lottery tickets to celebrate his 111 million subscribers.
One of the richest YouTube stars
In addition to his main channel, the young man has launched; several “sub-channels”: MrBeast Gaming6, dedicated to video games, Beast React, where he watches videos, MrBeast2, on which he posts bonus videos, Beast Philanthropy, dedicated to donations and Beast Shorts, reserved for videos under one minute. Since July 2021, he has his videos dubbed into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi and Arabic. At the same time, he created his own mobile application, Finger On The App and his brand of burgers. take away, MrBeast Burger. A multitude of activities that make Jimmy Donaldson one of the highest paid YouTube stars in the world, with nearly $ 54 million generated in 2021, according to the Forbes ranking published in January 2022. Today, the 23-year-old is at the head of a company with more than 50 employees.
But an investigation by the New York Times,published in May 2021, tarnishes the image of the young man. According to several former employees, Jimmy Donaldson isn’t quite good. does the same in real life as on camera. One of them, Matt Turner, editor for the star from February 2018 to 2018. September 2019, told newspaper that the young man was verbally attacking insulted him every day and called him “mentally defective”. Another, Nate Anderson, who moved to to Greenville in March 2018, the hometown of MrBeast, to work for him, resigned; after one week. According to him, his boss was “too perfectionist” and made “unreasonable demands” Philanthropist or demanding boss? It’s hard to know who Jimmy Donaldson really is. For his part, the man in question claims to “really want to become Elon Musk”, he said. in a posted message on Twitter in 2020.