Who is Mr. Beast? A ‘Youtuber’ who rakes in thousands of dollars from his followers

Jimmy Donaldson, better known by his YouTube alias, Mr. Beast, is known for his videos in which he hands out hundreds of thousands of dollars to strangers and undertakes experiments that require a lot of money. Now he youtuber with multiple subscribers on a multimedia platform He is drawing $50,000 among all his followers to celebrate his 25th birthday.

There will be a total of five winners, creditors of $10,000 each. The requirements to meet the conditions are to share the post of Mr. Beast on Instagram stories, tag a friend in the comments and follow their profile, something many users are already doing in hopes of being chosen to receive a grand prize.

Who is Mr. Beast?

Although only 25 years old, Jimmy Donaldson has had a long career as a content creator on YouTube. American currently has 151 million subscribersbut he was not so famous in 2012, when he uploaded his first video on the social network.

At age 13, Jimmy experimented with the YouTube algorithm to determine which videos went viral. In his early years as youtuber it barely crossed 1000 views for each video. But as she found her niche, her subscribers grew: in 2016, it reached the goal of 30,000.

One of his most viral videos was very interesting, it was all about him counting to 100,000, which took him 44 hours.

Coming soon, Mr. Zvijer made it clear that he had a philanthropic drive to get sponsors for his content. In 2017, he filmed himself giving $10,000 to a homeless man. At first, the man thought they were joking with him, but then he was very grateful to the young man.

That same year, after posting videos of silly challenges like watching paint dry, trying to stay underwater for a day, or spinning a toy, he amassed a million followers on YouTube. He once made a video titled The last one to remove his hand wins the Lamborghiniin which several people competed to win a luxury car.

In 2018, after donating a total of $1 million through his challenges, he was named “the biggest philanthropist on all of YouTube”.

Its massive popularity has also fueled a ‘subs battle’ with another famous YouTube creator, pewdiepie. Both channels were competing for the highest number of subscribers, which led them to face several challenges.

Jimmy went so far as to buy posters and advertisements for PewDiePie, in a comical attempt to increase his subscribers.

In 2020, Mr. Beast opened a restaurant where he would pay people $10,000 to eat to promote his Mr. franchise. Beast Burger, which launched 300 locations across the United States. A year later, he received millions of views on his channel for a video replicating “The Squid Game” from the popular Korean Netflix series.

According to Forbes, Jimmy Donaldson managed to collect 54 million dollars in 2021. No portal Celebrity Net Worth claims to have a net worth of $100 million. (AND)