Full Name: Jimmy Donaldson
Nickname: YouTube Philanthropist
Birth date: May 7, 1998
Birthplace: United State
Age: 26
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Height: 6′ 2.8″
Relationship Status: Single
Net Worth: $54 million
Profession: Youtuber
Religion: Christianity
About
American YouTuber and internet celebrity MrBeast gained notoriety for his incredible 100,000 count video. He began his internet career at the age of 14 by creating his first YouTube account, MrBeast6000, and uploading his first humorous movies there. Jimmy Donaldson was born in North Carolina in 1998. His sketches are centered around incredibly intriguing ideas, such as the one where Jimmy chose to count to 100,000 in a single day. He has a creative mind. He has made many other dreams come true, including breaking his own record and counting to 200,000. He also tried shattering glass with sound. The primary channel of MrBeast had more than 256 million members as of mid-2024.
Before Fame
His YouTube channel was launched on February 19, 2012. The following day, he uploaded his debut video there.
YouTube Information
Channel: MrBeast
Years active: 2012–present
Genres: Challenge, vlog, gaming, react
Subscribers: 286 million (main channel) 428 million (combined)
Total views: 52.4 billion (main channel) 74 billion (combined)
Associated acts: Karl Jacobs, PewDiePie, Marques Brownlee, Jay Leno, Mark Rober, Gordon Ramsay, Airrack
Other channels: Beast Philanthropy, MrBeast Gaming, Beast Reacts, MrBeast 2
Creator Awards
| 100,000 subscribers | 2016 | |
| 1,000,000 subscribers | 2017 | |
| 10,000,000 subscribers | 2018 | |
| 50,000,000 subscribers | 2021 | |
| 100,000,000 subscribers | 2022 |
Trivia
His YouTube career took off when he started sharing emotional films like “Giving a Random Homeless Man $10,000.” On his YouTube channel, he currently has over 188 million subscribers and 33 billion views overall. He posted a lengthy video of himself in 2017 counting down to 100,000 subscribers, claiming it took him 40 hours to complete.
He then conducted a second countdown to 200,000 subscribers. Around this time, he started to become well-known for publishing a variety of videos, including one in which he watched paint dry for an hour and another in which he attempted to shatter glass with one hundred megaphones. Because of his generous donations—he has given out more than $1 million—he has been dubbed the “YouTube Philanthropist.” Team Trees was a fundraising campaign started in 2019 by MrBeast and YouTuber Mark Rober. They raised almost $23 million to plant 20 million trees.
His 2020 YouTube live attracted 662,000 people, making it the most watched live show on the platform. The influencers were competing for a $250,000 grand prize in a game of “rock, paper, scissors.” When he showed up as a visitor on the Clubhouse app in 2021, he crashed the app. In the same year, he planned and posted a reimagined version of Netflix’s “Squid Game,” in which 456 participants battled without resorting to violence for a $456,000 grand prize. There are presently 509 million views on the video. Because they consistently feature internet challenges, reaction videos, giveaways, and guest appearances, his videos are positioned to go viral on purpose.
MrBeast signed one of his largest-ever partnership agreements with the NBA in October 2023. For the 2023–24 season, the Charlotte Hornets will have their Feastables brand on every uniform worn by the team. With companies like MrBeast Burger, Feastables, and Finger on the App, he is a passionate inventor and entrepreneur.
Family Life
He grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where he was born. James Stephen Donaldson is his real name. In his YouTube video titled “Surprising My Mom With $10,000+ Home Makeover,” he included his mother. CJ Donaldson, his older brother, is well-known for his MrBro YouTube channel. He dated Maddy Spidell once before. He began dating Thea Booysen in 2022.
Associated With
He produced several humorous videos on Donald Trump throughout the 2016 election campaign.
