mr. beast was one of the most viewed
YouTube creators in the last year and in
this video we will see how he started
and found his success with elaborate
stunts and giveaways so who is mr. beast
Jimmy Donaldson or more commonly known
online as mr. beast is an American
content creator YouTube star internet
personality and philanthropist he was
born in Kansas United States on May 7th
1998 he later moved to Greenville North
Carolina where he grew up and did his
YouTube channel in his early age his
Nana used to watch him because both his
parents were in the Army there's not
much info about his father but his mom
appeared on various videos including
giving my mom $100,000 proudest day of
my life mr. beast or Jimmy also has an
older brother called CJ wait that's not
him okay who recently started posting on
his own YouTube channel called mr. bro
yeah super creative name but who am I to
judge so how did he start his YouTube
empire Jimmy always wanted to be a
youtuber he grew up watching a lot of
YouTube like woodysgamertag call of duty
videos and some other youtubers like T
Martin white boy and ali-a interestingly
he started his first YouTube channel
when he was twelve years old and he was
attacked by hacker in a facebook game
battle pirates later he started playing
and uploading videos of Call of Duty and
minecraft after some time on February 19
2012 he opened his second channel which
was used for his minecraft commentary
videos and named it mr. beast 6000
after removing 6000 he settled on the
iconic mr. beast on his primary channel
he gained a lot of subscribers after
using sub4sub sites but even with the
new subscribers he would get very little
views one day in frustration he deleted
this channel
he was left with his mrbeast 6000
channel which he had only 2 minecraft
videos
Jimmy decided to take a break and
stop uploading several months later
when he later came back he saw that his
Minecraft videos are actually doing good
which gave him the motivation to start
uploading again but still even with
these new videos it took him years
before he started to gain attention and
find content that viewers wanted to
watch back in the day he had a terrible
laptop and recorded with a built-in
microphone and didn't have a camera so
he saved up for months to buy better
equipment he was making a dollar a day
and didn't want to tell his mom he's
doing YouTube until he reached 10,000
subscribers during the next two years he
went through stages of trends on his
channel like funny highlights of playing
Minecraft and Call of Duty estimating
youtubers wealth offering tips and
tricks to aspiring creators and
commentating on youtuber drama Jimmy
started gaining friction in 2015 and
2016 after he began uploading videos
where he made fun of youtuber
introductions he discovered on the
platform he named its worst intros on
YouTube video series it was very popular
and helped him grow he went to college
for a whole two weeks and decided it
wasn't for him he later said that he
would rather be poor and make videos
than work doing just about anything else
he also didn't tell his mom about this
for a little bit during those days he
decided that in order to make this work
he would need to step up his game do
what do what so he did what any sane
person would do
he spent 44 hours counting to 100,000 he
uploaded it on January 2017 and that was
his first truly viral video later that
year mr. best reached 1 million
subscribers
after that first video went viral
mr. beast found what the YouTube
algorithm liked
he quickly amassed more views with
similar stunts like spinning a fidget
spinner for 24 hours and watching Jay
Paul's it's everyday bro music video for
10 hours straight it is at this time
that he started getting brand deals and
donating money to twitch streamers
homeless people and tipping ten thousand
dollars to uber drivers and pizza
delivery guys as his brand deals grew
so did the donations in October 2018
t-series started getting close to
PewDiePie with a number of subscribers
the battle for the biggest YouTube
channel was on and Jimmy Donaldson
decided that he would launch a
relentless ad campaign to support fellow
youtuber PewDiePie and help him win he
recorded a 12 hour video saying human
mind 100,000 times he bought billboards
and truck ads turned up at the Superbowl
in sub - PewDiePie shirts but still
t-series prevailed in may 2000 19 a fan
suggested on reddit that mr. beast
should plant 20 million trees to
celebrate reaching 20 million
subscribers on YouTube later that year
in October mr beast and mark rober
launched a fundraising campaign called
#teamtrees to plant 20 million trees by
the end of 2019 the campaign has
gathered the support of hundreds if not
thousands of influencers and has
received more than 20 million dollars
worth of donations from over half a
million people including Elon Musk and
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Toby Lutzke and
YouTube stars like PewDiePie and Jeffrey
star MrBeast had given out millions of
dollars through his outlandish stunts
earning him the title of YouTube's
biggest philanthropist he has been
credited with helping to launch a new
style of expensive stunt videos on
YouTube in which creators pull off
elaborate challenges and large-scale
sponsored giveaways every insane idea
you can think of is somewhere on Mr
beasts channel I also thought I
should include some of his crew members
since his videos wouldn't be the same
without them as mr beast has grown his
channel he was able to hire four of his
childhood friends Chris Chandler Garret
and Jake to work for him and his YouTube
channel and since then they have become
iconic names in the Mrbeast empire
full-time he has over 10 employees and
part time they have a lot of people
helping out as well they surely won't be
able to pick up 100 million Orbeez by
themselves and things like that Chris
and Chandler grew up with him he's known
Chris the meme God since he was 12 and
he was his first subscriber and Chandler
well Chandler is Chandler this is
adventure time with Chandler Chandler
please put your machete away put it away
Jimmy's mom is also a big part of the
team and does lots of things to top it
off and make matters worse she does not
call it my youtube channel she calls it
my youtube business this morning she was
like how many views did you get on your
YouTube business and I was just like
stop don't don't call it why'd you call
it a business
Jimmy is big on loyalty and a lot of the
crew he's known for the majority of his
life even as editor Ethan wasn't super
passionate about editing but it is
someone he knew from school but one
thing is still not clear does Chris
moisturize
more than 120 last videos on his channel
all have over 10 million views so why are his
videos doing so good and are more
entertaining than some TV shows Mr
beast likes to delegate all things he is
not good at or doesn't like doing so he
can focus on one thing he is best at and
has fun doing that is thinking of video
ideas and seeing them unfold
sometimes the ideas come from hours of
brainstorming with the team and
sometimes it is as random as just
flipping through the dictionary and
landing on random words like prison and
if something worked they would do it
again like they did over 15 twitch
donations he reinvested everything he
earned up until the past couple months
and sometimes spends as much as 100
thousand dollars on a video there is no
routine one day they will film in the
desert and tomorrow they will be
traveling to Antarctica he also owns a
huge warehouse where they filmed the
videos sometimes mrbeast starts the
challenges thinking they are easier than
they really are but then he gets so far
into them that he is like well I might
as well finish it that's what she said
that's my joke damn it Dwight
he once said we try to all-around be
above the rest if other people spend one
hour thinking of video ideas and five
hours filming I want to spend 10 hours
of thinking and days filming after all
the filming is finished three editors
edit the video and usually Chris reviews
it then Chandler, Jake and Jimmy will
review at last after all five revisions
it's impossible for a video not to be
good there are not many bad videos about
Mr beast but since he became so famous
people started wondering how does he
have so much money to give there's some
interesting theories about the origin of
his money like it's actually Chandler
that's rich
and gives the money to Mrbeast for
challenges which is why he loses every
time wow he is Robin Hood he took it
from old people dark web of bitcoin he
is the son of Elon Musk hmm
but the truth is he gets it from brand
deals Adsense and MrBeast merchandise
MrBeast is a product of his own viral
content he's only able to give out these
thousands of dollars thanks to
six-figure brand deals to fund in video
ads his first ever brand deal was $5,000
with an app named quidd so what did he
do he said double it and I will give it
to the homeless person and at first they
thought he was lying but that's what he
did MrBeast has close to 5 billion
views so he earns a lot from ads playing
before and during videos he also owns an
online store where he sells t-shirts and
other clothing to his followers on
social media and they are growing every
day by millions Jimmy used to say he
doesn't have time for a girlfriend but
somehow in June 2019 he shared on
Instagram he was dating Maddie's Fadel
Instagram personality dancer and digital
marketing student for Valentine's Day he
surprised her with 100,000 roses
what a nice couple
Jimmy managed to do a lot in these last
couple of years so here's some of the
things he did he counted to 200,000 he
spent 24 hours underwater read the
longest English word 190,000 characters
Ubered across America
he tipped a house to a pizza delivery
guy opened a free bank opened a free car
dealership can we afford this
I really don't know that's reassuring
he spun the fidgets spinner for 24 hours
twice won every prize at a theme park he
proved that the earth is flat
he ordered water and then tipped $30,000
built a working car using only Legos he
watched paint dry wait what even he gave
up on naming all of his accomplishments
and this video was already too long so
some people would say Jimmy is a product
of luck but researching for this topic I
learned a lot and saw it took him over
eight years to get where he is now and
those years weren't an easy journey but
he remained consistent and determined to
make it work even now he said in an
interview wants to keep grinding and
stay in North Carolina
he doesn't want mansions Lamborghinis
all he wants for now is to be a top-tier
youtuber he is happy he started playing
basketball again and listening to
audiobooks about the parts of life where
he thinks he needs improvement is he
really that genuine of a person well
I'll leave that for you to decide
whether you like him or not MrBeast is
still one formidable force in the
YouTube community and even wider now he
is turning 22 in May and it already
seems that there is little stuff he
can't do I guess we'll just have to stay
tuned and see where he's headed #team oceans
well that's it I hope that I managed to
bring you closer to the mindsets and
life of Jimmy Donaldson
I know this video format is different
from my usual videos but YouTube told me
that I should start
experimenting with different kinds of videos
so here it is I'm thinking of doing
these kinds of documentaries from time
to time tell me in the comments what you
think should I do more of these and who
should I do next
