Jimmy Donaldson broadly generally known as MrBeast is an American YouTuber. He’s additionally an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He develops movies primarily in comedy, leisure, vlogs, gaming, and costly stunt genres. He was 13 years previous when he began posting movies on YouTube below the YouTube deal with “MrBeast6000″ in 2012. His video “Counting to 100,000” was considered by greater than ten thousand viewers in just some days on YouTube in 2017, which gave him immense reputation. Thereafter, each time he posts any new video on YouTube, it receives greater than ten million views quickly after importing. Over a time frame, Jimmy Donalson began making diversified video content material akin to survival challenges, troublesome duties, vlogs, and donation movies with prizes of 1000’s of {dollars}. In accordance with a social media server, he was among the many highest-paid YouTubers all around the world in 2020. As his enterprise began rising, he engaged his 4 childhood mates to assist him in content material creation, and this staff grew as much as quite a few sixty in 2022. In accordance with some media sources, his YouTube channel ‘MrBeast’ was supported by greater than 94 million folks until April 2022. Steadily, Jimmy Donaldson has began many extra YouTube channels together with Beast Reacts, MrBeast Gaming, MrBeast Shorts, and a philanthropy channel. MrBeast Burger and Feastables are two eatables ventures, which have been began by MrBeast in 2020. Later, he turned the co-creator of Crew Timber and the Crew Seas.
Wiki/Biography
Jimmy Donaldson was born on Thursday, 7 Might 1998 (age 24 years; as of 2022) in Wichita, Kansas, U.S. His zodiac signal is Taurus. In 2016, Jimmy Donaldson graduated from Greenville Christian Academy, Greenville, North Carolina. Later, he attended East Carolina College for a short time interval and dropped out.
Bodily Look
Peak (approx.): 6′
Hair Color: Gentle Brown
Eye Color: Gray
Household
Dad and mom & Siblings
The names of his mother and father usually are not identified.
He has a brother named CJ Donaldson.
Spouse
He’s not married.
Relationships/Affairs
He’s a relationship with Maddy Spidell since 2019.
Profession
In 2012, Jimmy Donaldson started a YouTube channel named “MrBeast6000″ when he was 13 years previous. He appeared in his movies akin to Minecraft and Name of Obligation: Black Ops 2 that he uploaded on his channel “MrBeast6000.” These movies primarily centered on estimating the earnings of different YouTubers, the recommendation for the brand new YouTube creators, and a few movies contained analyses of YouTube drama. His YouTube channel “That-dude” was subscribed by solely 240 folks in 2013.
Jimmy Donaldson launched a sequence of movies named “worst intros” through which he mocked and made enjoyable of different YouTubers, and these gave him immense reputation on YouTube in 2015 and 2016. In the course of 2016, the variety of subscribers of his channel raised to round thirty thousand. Quickly, Jimmy Donaldson opted for YouTube content material creation as a full-time profession and dropped his faculty research at East Carolina College. As his YouTube enterprise grew, Jimmy Donaldson employed his 4 childhood mates named Chris Tyson, Chandler Hallow, Garrett Ronalds, and Jake Franklin to help him in his enterprise. They began taking care of the operations of Jimmy Donaldson’s YouTube channel together with showing on the channel. They got the accountability to gather the statistics of the hit movies of his channel in order that it might assist the channel in predicting its advice system.
A video titled ‘counting to 100,000’ was uploaded by him on Youtube in January 2017, and this video was a 24-hour lengthy video, which was developed by him in forty hours. This video included the stunt competitors. Within the following month, one other video “Counting to 200,000 (Street to a Mil)” was developed by him in fifty-five hours, and the add restrict on YouTube was exceeded by this video. Among the movies which have been uploaded by him throughout this time included the makes an attempt made to interrupt a glass through the use of 100 megaphones, watching paint dry for an hour, trying to remain below the water for 24 hours and spinning a fidget spinner for a day, which was an unsuccessful try made by him.
In 2018, Jimmy Donaldson got here into the limelight as a philanthropist when he donated $1 million to a charity. This cash was earned by him by importing movies on YouTube. This made him earn the title “YouTube’s largest philanthropist” in 2018. A PewDiePie vs T-Sequence competitors was held in 2018. Throughout this competitors, the billboards and a number of other tv and radio commercials have been bought by Jimmy Donaldson in order that he might assist PewDiePie to lure extra subscribers than T-Sequence. The purpose to organise this competitors was to turn out to be the most-subscribed channel on YouTube.
An actual-life battle royale competitors was organised by Jimmy Donaldson in Los Angeles in 2019 in collaboration with Apex Legends. The prize cash for the winner of the competitors was introduced to be $200,000. He then uploaded a video titled “I Opened A FREE BANK” on 23 November 2019 and was blamed for counterfeiting the prize cash. Nonetheless, he denied all of the allegations in opposition to him. He said in a video,
I used pretend cash to mitigate the potential security and safety dangers brought on by a rush of individuals clamouring to get the free cash, and claimed that he exchanged the counterfeit payments for a actuality test for everybody afterwards.”
A sequence of movies have been uploaded by Jimmy Donaldson in November and December 2019. These movies earned over 200 million views. The competitors within the movies was received by a person named Mark, who was given the money prize of $1,000,000. Throughout the recreation, sixteen contestants who participated within the present confirmed their endurance by not taking their palms off an object, and so they weren’t allowed to go away their location. After thirty-six hours of the competitors, the winner of the sport was introduced. Quickly after successful the money prize, Mark exclaimed,
he was in a position to exchange his automobile and home.”
A video consisting of 32 influencers participated in a rock, paper, scissors competitors held in April 2020 organised by Jimmy Donaldson. The winner of the sport was introduced to obtain a prize quantity of $250,000. Quickly after its add on YouTube, this video turned the most-watched dwell unique occasion video in April 2020. In October 2020, Jimmy Donaldson organised one other competitors video through which 24 folks participated for a prize of $300,000. On 1 January 2021, Jimmy Donaldson launched a video titled “Youtube Rewind 2020, Thank God It’s Over” through which he defined the video as a number. He narrated,
I had all the time believed that YouTubers “ought to get extra say in Rewind,” and with this in thoughts, he determined to name “lots of of YouTubers.”
Jimmy Donalson was one of many friends of the Clubhouse app in February 2021. In March 2021, he signed a deal to permit his content material to be uploaded on Snapchat and Fb. This settlement was signed by him with Jellysmack. Squid Recreation, a survival drama on the tv sequence, was recreated by a video by Jimmy Donaldson in November 2021. He organised a contest for this video and a $456,000 money prize was introduced for the winner of the sport. There have been 456 members within the recreation. This video garnered over 248 million views in Might 2022. In 2021, this video was thought to be one of many most-viewed movies of Jimmy Donalson. In December 2021, 15 social media influencers participated in a contest organised on the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, by Jimmy Donaldson and a $1,000,000 money prize was introduced for the winner. Zach King received the competitors after competing within the two rounds of the sport.
Philanthropist
on 17 September 2020, Jimmy Donaldson began a YouTube channel ‘Beast Philanthropy,’ and the primary video uploaded by him on this channel was “I Opened My Personal Charity!” A charity meals financial institution named Darren was introduced to be launched by Jimmy Donaldson by this video. He additionally appealed by his first video that every one the earnings of this channel by commercials, model offers, and merchandise gross sales can be given to charity. In accordance with the Related Press media home,
The charity had distributed over 1.1 million kilos of meals, was serving to to feed almost 1,000 households within the Greenville, North Carolina space on a weekly foundation, and had delivered over 9,000 scorching meals for victims of Hurricane Ida.”
Recreation Software
A recreation app titled “Finger on the App” was launched by Jimmy Donaldson in June 2020. This was began in a partnership with Brooklyn-based artwork collective MSCHF. The members or gamers of the sport have been supposed to carry the display of their cellphone with their fingers for max time as a lot as they may. The winner of the sport was introduced to obtain $25,000 in money. On the finish of the sport, 4 contestants have been competing with one another by preserving their fingers on their cellular screens for greater than seventy hours, and the winner of the sport received the money prize. After analysing the recognition of this recreation, the organisers of the sport determined to launch its second model in December 2020, however the variety of downloads of the sport app exceeded the utmost restrict and the app in the end crashed. Quickly, the servers of the sport have been up to date by the organisers. The winner of the sport was a 19-year-old man who was named Swagbacon123 on Twitter, He received $100,00o as a money prize.
MrBeast Burger
A digital restaurant named MrBeast Burger was began by Jimmy Donaldson in December 2020. The burgers can be found on-line throughout the US. In a dialog with the Wake Weekly, the producer of the MrBeast channel, Will Hyde, said,
MrBeast Burger will promote franchise rights to serve the burgers to eating places throughout the US and prospects will have the ability to order the burgers by way of on-line supply companies.”
Feastables
In January 2022, Jimmy Donaldson launched a meals outlet titled Feastables, which sells its personal chocolate bars named “MrBeast Bars.” These goodies can be found within the USA in three flavours. Throughout its launch, the organisers of the outlet organized a money prize recreation to draw the members for its publicity and endorsement. Over $1 million of prizes have been introduced for the members of the sport in collaboration with Turtle Seaside Company and Roccat in February 2022.
As an investor
In 2020, MrBeast invested in an organization named Spine One. This firm manufactures smartphones which appear to be Nintendo Swap controllers. This firm has a Spine app, which creates content material and social instruments for its customers. In March 2021, Artistic Juice’s monetary community and Jimmy Donaldson entered right into a partnership to lift funds with an funding of $2 million on his YouTube channel by providing as much as $250,000 in change for fairness. In April 2021, he invested in a monetary firm named ‘Present’ as its companion. Throughout the identical time, he invested in a cryptocurrency and promoted the identical on his YouTube channel. Later, an enormous loss was suffered by the buyers of the corporate, and he was critically blamed for a similar.
Crew Timber
A problem titled “Crew Timber” was organised by Jimmy Donaldson and Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer and YouTuber on 25 October 2019 for elevating cash on YouTube. The purpose to organise this problem was to lift a sum of $20 million to be donated to the Arbor Day Basis. The problem included the plantation of 20 million timber earlier than December 2022. The opposite well-known YouTubers like Rhett & Hyperlink, Marshmello, iJustine, Marques Brownlee, The Gradual Mo Guys, Ninja, Simone Giertz, Jacksepticeye, and Smarter Each Day additionally promoted the problem on their respective channels. In a number of parks in the US, the tree plantation problem started in October 2019. A sum of $20,000,000 was collected by the organisers of the marketing campaign until December 2019. World entrepreneurs together with Jack Dorsey, Susan Wojcicki, Elon Musk, and Tobias Lütke got here ahead and donated to the trigger. Discovery, Verizon, and Crops vs. Zombies additionally made their respective contributions. Until April 2022, the organisers of the marketing campaign obtained $23.7 million in donations.
TeamSeas
One other problem occasion was organised by Jimmy Donaldson and Mark Rober on 29 October 2021. This was known as TeamSeas on YouTube. The Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup have been the missions of this problem together with elevating an quantity of $30 million from its promotional actions by 1 January 2022. The removing of 30 million kilos of plastic and different waste from oceans, rivers, and seashores was the mission of this problem. The famend promoters and collaborators of TeamSeas have been AzzyLand, DanTDM, TommyInnit, LinusTechTips, TierZoo, LEMMiNO, The Infographics Present, Hannah Stocking, Dhar Mann, and Marques Brownlee.
Controversies
- In accordance with a media supply, in 2018, an worker of Jimmy Donaldson stop his job merely after working with him for seven days. Quickly after quitting the job, Nate Anderson said the explanation to stop his job in media. He stated,
Unreasonable calls for and known as Donaldson a perfectionist.
Later, Anderson defined his work expertise with Jimmy Donaldson by releasing a video on social media. Quickly after he put allegations in opposition to Jimmy Donaldson on numerous social media platforms, Anderson began receiving a number of demise threats and hate remarks from the followers of Jimmy Donaldson. In one other case, reportedly, as a result of dangerous nature of Jimmy Donaldson on the office, as soon as, his 9 staff stop the job collectively. Whereas speaking to a media home, these 9 staff said,
Whereas Donaldson was generally beneficiant, his manner would change when cameras have been off of him. A troublesome work atmosphere whereas working below him.”
- In February 2021, Farokh Sarmad, an proprietor of a Clubhouse in the US, was kicked off by Jimmy Donaldson. Donaldson said that he couldn’t communicate Farokh’s identify correctly, and this was taken as a racist remark by Farokh Sarmad. Quickly, the problem went viral on social media, and Farokh Sarmad was backlashed by numerous YouTubers and the Clubhouse members. Later, Farokh Sarmad said in an interview with a media home that Jimmy Donaldson misbehaved with him and kicked him off the stage to accommodate extra girls members. He claimed,
He was handed over for talking alternatives solely. Then, Jimmy Donaldson verbally stated he’d be clearing the stage to ask completely different folks up. He instructed Colin by identify that he’d be eradicating him, then stated he was “actually dangerous with names” earlier than eradicating Sarmad.”
Sarmad continued,
From an outsider’s perspective when you see the video, you see my tweets, you assume I’m loopy. I did this as a result of I’ve suffered from this earlier than, provided that my identify is Farokh. It’s occurred to me in Paris the place I used to be raised. It’s occurred to me right here in Canada in addition to in the US.”
He added,
To be kicked off due to my identify shouldn’t be proper. And to not be given an opportunity to talk when different individuals who got here on after me got talking time,” Sarmad stated. “It was a really arduous day for me.”
- In Might 2021, Matt Turner, an editor at Jimmy Donaldson’s enterprise, put allegations on Jimmy that whereas at work Jimmy Donaldson used to name him mentally retarded day by day. In the identical dialog, Turner said that he was not appreciated for his arduous work by Jimmy. Turner additionally blamed Jimmy for misbehaving on the office by sharing a video on social media in 2018. In an interview with The New York Occasions, Matt Turner said,
He was “yelled at, bullied, known as mentally retarded and replaceable by MrBeast each single day.”
Quickly after Matt Turner posted a video in opposition to Jimmy Donaldson, a Twitter thread of this video was deleted. On this dialog thread, Turner was stating,
Donaldson deleted a undertaking file for a video he was enhancing for him as a result of a compilation of clips of his philanthropy didn’t equal the $500,000 determine talked about within the title of the video.”
Awards, Honours, Achievements
In 2019, Jimmy Donaldson received the ninth Streamy Awards for Breakout Creator. In the identical 12 months, he was nominated for the ninth Streamy Awards for Ensemble Solid and Creator of the 12 months. In 2020, he received the twelfth Annual Shorty Awards for the YouTuber of the 12 months, the tenth Streamy Awards for Creator of the 12 months, Reside Particular, Social Good: Creator, and Social Good: Nonprofit or NGO. In 2021, he was nominated for the Children’ Selection Awards for Favourite Male Social Star and received the eleventh Streamy Awards for Creator of the 12 months. In 2022, he received the Children’ Selection Awards for Favourite Male Creator.
Automotive Assortment
MrBeast is the proprietor of a Lamborghini.
Details/Trivia
- When Jimmi Donaldson stop his faculty research to pursue content material creation as a full-time profession, his resolution was not accepted by his mom, which made him go away the home of his mom.
- In June 2019, Jimmy Donaldson posted an image of his girlfriend, Maddy Spidell, on numerous social media platforms. In an interview with a media home, Maddy said that cash was not the explanation so far MrBeast. She stated,
I don’t need mr beast for his cash, simply desire a bf with good style in anime who could make me chortle.”
- In 2020, Jimmy Donaldson gave 40 automobiles to the 40,000,000th subscriber of his channel.
- As soon as, in one in all his movies, Jimmy Donaldson narrated his success story and the mantra to success on YouTube. He stated,
As soon as you understand how to make a video go viral, it’s nearly get as many out as doable, […] you may virtually make limitless cash. […] The movies take months of prep. Numerous them take 4 to 5 days of relentless filming. There’s a motive different folks don’t do what I do.”
- In accordance with a survey in 2021 by SurveyMonkey, the movies of Jimmy Donaldson are favored by 70% of the viewers and solely 12% disliked them.
- In January 2022, Jimmy Donaldson was rated because the highest-earning content material creator on YouTube with a $54 million estimated revenue in 2021. The 2020 Forbes Celeb ranked Jimmy Donaldson within the fortieth place among the many high 100 excessive rated celebrities.
- In accordance with world media sources, the movies uploaded by Jimmy Donaldson have the tendency to go viral quickly after he uploads them on his YouTube channel. Jimmy earns over “tens of tens of millions of {dollars}” by the gross sales of commercials, sponsorships, and social media suggestions, which have been displayed on his YouTube channel. In accordance with The Detroit Information,
His movies have parts of web challenges, visitor appearances and response movies – three well-liked video genres on-line.[citation needed] On YouTube, his movies make use of catchy clickbait titles akin to “I Adopted EVERY Canine in a Canine Shelter”, clarify the challenges in below half a minute, and hold their size between ten and twenty minutes.”
- In a dialog with a media home, Jimmy Donaldson said that the financial prizes that he provided earlier than beginning the competitors in his movies attracted extra viewers on YouTube. A number of famend organisation sponsors the competitions organised by him, and this permits him to donate and supply large financial money prizes in nearly each video. As an illustration, in one in all his movies akin to Minecraft, Jimmy Donaldson donated homes to charity. He’s thought of the pioneer or the originator of the fashionable high-cost stunt movies on YouTube, and these movies embody quite a lot of challenges and large funding. In a few of his movies, Jimmy Donaldson donated gadgets value $100,000 to homeless folks in December 2018, $32,000 to the Wounded Warrior Challenge, $70,000 to St. Jude Youngsters’s Analysis Hospital, and $10,000 to a Los Angeles animal shelter. In accordance with psychologist Tim Kasser,
A MrBeast video selling a product can be about half as costly as working a tv advert, with increased engagement and reception.”
- Jimmy Donaldson is affected by a power inflammatory bowel illness named Crohn’s illness.
- In Might 2022, MrBeast hit the headlines when Elon Musk said in a Twitter dialog with MrBeast that if he dies below mysterious circumstances then MrBeast would deal with Twitter. The dialog was,
If I die below mysterious circumstances, it’s been good knowin ya.” MrBeast requested, “If that occurs can I’ve Twitter”; Musk replied “Okay” and that was that. MrBeast adopted up with a “No takesies backsies”.”