Written by: Manit Bhattarai - 21112, Grade XII
Posted on: 18 August, 2020
Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as Mr. Beast, is an American YouTuber/Internet personality notable for his expensive and crazy videos that leave people in absolute awe. Born on May 7th of 1998, Jimmy started his YouTube journey at the age of 13 under the name MrBeast6000. His videos in the early days were pretty average, ranging from video gameplay through to estimating other YouTuber's net worth.
But after his viral hit video of counting to 100,000 (which took him about 40 hours, but some parts sped up to fit it in 24 hours limit), Jimmy started getting recognition on the internet. That’s when the journey of Mr. Beast truly began. With currently over 40 million subscribers on YouTube, his content is usually expensive stunts that easily grab the attention of even normal laymen who are not his regular viewers. Some of his crazy early day's stunts include counting to 200,000, a subsequent video to “ Counting to a 100,000” as a journey to 1 million subscribers, breaking glass using 100 microphones, watching paint dry, attempting to stay underwater for 24 hours and many more. In the march of 2019, he organized a real-life battle royale with a prize pool of $200,000 with many other YouTube stars.
He is also very much known for his charitable events throughout the internet. A typical video would be him giving away a large sum of money, such as $100,000 worth of items to homeless shelters, $32,000 to wounded veterans of war, $70,000 to children’s research hospital ( Saint Jude ), buying a homeless man a house, etc. During the YouTube war of subscribers between PewDiePie and T-series, MrBeast bought numerous ads on radio advertisements, many billboards, multiple seats at Super Bowl whole occupants wore a shirt that spelled out “Sub 2 PewDiePie”. His biggest event was raising $20,000,000 to plant 20,000,000 trees all around the world with former NASA engineer, now YouTuber, Mark Rober in which they were very much successful. Some even go as far as to say MrBeast saved the entire planet. He does many suspenseful and teeth clenching videos as well. For example, hide and seek where the winner gets $50,000, spending 24 hours in the Bermuda triangle, solitary confinement, Doomsday bunker, etc. , shooting fireworks worth $600,000 during the 4th of July and his most recent video where the winner of several consequent challenges gets to keep an entire island costing $800,000.
MrBeast truly is one of a kind YouTuber whose type of content is something people probably couldn’t have imagined 5 years ago. He recently said he is dying with $0 in his bank account by giving them away to people in need and people who don’t believe him can sit and watch him create history and leave his name on this planet as a great hero of our generation.
