Moreover, Mr Beast began a tree-planting campaign in October 2019, Known as # Team Trees. The goal is to generate $20 million to plant 20 million trees and more than $4 million was raised in the first 24 hours after its launch. The project has surpassed the perceived mark and has raised over 22 million dollars so far.
The early life of Mr. Beast
Mr Beast (birth name Jimmy Donaldson) was born on May 7, 1998, in Greenville North Carolina. There are no details regarding his parents but he has an older brother CJ Donaldson who is also a YouTuber under the name MrBro.
Mr Beast studied at the Greenville Christian Academy where he was a member of the baseball and basketball team. He later moved away from college to concentrate more on his YouTube channel.
Career
Mr Beast was a teenager when he debuted on YouTube with the channel “MrBeast6000” in February 2012. His initial uploads were focused on his interests at the time, which were popular video games such as Pokemon, Minecraft and Battle Pirates. Later on, he began the series, “Worst Intros Video series ” by taking note of the humorous side of popular videos posted on YouTube and creating his own version which made fun of them.
The move from video games to comedy was very effective in growing his subscribers and raking in millions of views as his channel grew more popular. He has since made his “Worst Intros videos” private.
After the success of the series, Mr Beast took another turn towards more realistic scenarios. He began to complete some insane, time-consuming tasks such as Counting up to 100,000 which took him about 40 hours but some parts had to be edited to fit into the YouTube time frame. It was so popular that he did a sequel where he counted up to 200,000. Other attention-grabbing videos are ” I bought a car using only pennies”, “Breaking Glass using only megaphones”, Saying Logan Paul 100,000 times and Reading the Dictionary.
Mr Beast has also done a lot of videos where he assisted several people thus earning him the reputation of the most philanthropic YouTube star. Such videos include “I gave a homeless home a home” which had over 7 million views in 24 hours, “Tipping Pizza delivery guys $10,000” and a viral video where he tipped a waitress $10,000 after buying only one bottled water for just $1 made him vastly famous. Likewise, he gave out thousands of dollars to Twitch streamers as well as war veterans, the Wounded Warrior program, the animal shelter, St Jude Children’s Research hospital and many more.
Moreover, Mr Beast had spearheaded a number of causes. For instance, he started a rapid campaign in October 2018 through billboards, ads (both radio and television) and went as far as buying bathroom ads just to help fellow YouTuber PewDiePie to get ahead of T-series in YouTube subscription.
After reaching 20 million subscribers in May 2019, Mr Beast went on a project to plant 20 million trees in a campaign called “TeamTrees” . Mr Beast uploaded a video of the project in October 2019 ” Planting 20,000,000 Trees, My biggest project ever” and it reached 35 million views in 10 days. Together with other influencers such as Mark Rober. Mr Beast formed a partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation to ensure the success of the program. Since it’s launch in October 2019, till March 2020, the program which has the support of Company Executives such as Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and Susan Wojcicki, has successfully planted over 20 million trees both in and outside the United States. Individuals are encouraged to participate by donating $1 to plant a tree.
Furthermore, Mr Beast has another YouTube channel which focuses on hacks – BeastHacks. It was created in 2008 and has over 2. 7 million subscribers and over 316 million views. Some popular videos on the channel are ” What can you cut with paper” and 1000 Degree Metal Ball Vs Ice”.
Mr Beast’s accomplishments have been rewarded with some awards and nominations which includes a nomination for Vlogger of the year at the 2019 Shorty awards and Favorite Male Social Star at the 2020 Kids Choice awards. He is also the winner of the 2020 YouTuber of the year award and the 2019 Breakout Creator award. Mr Beast still lives in Greenville North Carolina where he was born and is currently dating an Instagram model Maddy Spidell and their relationship is progressing smoothly.
Mr Beast Net Worth
People are curious to know the net worth of Mr Beast and how rich the popular YouTuber is. It has become a fascinating topic as they wonder how rich he is to be able to give out large amounts of cash.
Mr Beast’s net worth is estimated at $10 million dollars. It might interest you to know that the famous influencer makes all of his money from YouTube. Speaking to the Verve, he said, “If you want the special secret, if you want to know where it all came from — my parents aren’t that rich, I’m only 20 years old,”. He continued “Every dollar I’ve ever made came from YouTube, and YouTube just pays better than you think,”
Moreover, Mr Beast had sponsors like Quidd at the early stage of his career before other sponsors like TikTok and World of Tank Blitz came along. He also sells some merchandise including Hoods and T-shirts on ShopMrBeast from where he generates extra income.
But the question is, considering that he gives so much away, why is he still Rich? It’s quite simple. The more he gives, the more popular he gets and the more people watch his content and remember that advertisers are looking for popular channels with big traffic to showcase their stuff and that’s how he gets sponsorship deals. His ingenuity is now being copied by other influencers and it has started the trend of great giveaways and expensive stunts.
