MrBeast

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MrBeast
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YouTube channel (entertainment)
language English
founding 19th February 2012
channels Youtube channel
Subscribers over 42 million
Calls over 6.9 billion
Videos 701
(updated July 28, 2020)

MrBeast (born May 7, 1998 in Kansas , real name Jimmy Donaldson ) is an American web video producer and operator of the YouTube channel of the same name .

YouTube career

Donaldson began producing YouTube videos in 2012 at the age of 13 under the name MrBeast6000 , which ranged from Let's Plays to "guess how much money other YouTubers have". However, his videos achieved relatively few views until he released the “Count to Hundred Thousand” video in 2017, which “achieved tens of thousands of views in just a few days”. In August 2020 he has a total of over 41 million subscribers.

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Donaldson's videos are often stunts that get a lot of attention. He occasionally makes videos in which he donates large sums of money to Twitch streamers. In other videos, for example, he filmed watching paint dry or recorded counting to 100,000 in 40 hours.

Donaldson often donates money to nonprofit organizations in his videos. For example, he donated $ 100,000 to a homeless shelter, $ 10,000 to a local animal shelter, and $ 70,000 to Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Fundraising campaign #TeamTrees

TeamTrees logo

On October 25, 2019 Donaldson started a global fundraising campaign under the name "#Teamtrees" in cooperation with the ex- NASA engineer Mark Rober . The goal was to raise a $ 20 million donation for the Arbor Day Foundation by 2020 . The money should flow directly into the project, as the organization agreed to plant a total of 20 million trees by 2022 at a rate of one tree for one US dollar.

The project was spurred on by comments on Reddit and Twitter that Donaldson should celebrate reaching 20 million YouTube subscribers by planting 20 million trees. Donaldson also stated in his announcement that he would like to use the project to pay for any environmental pollution caused by him from previous projects.

The project was supported by YouTube personalities like PewDiePie , Marques Brownlee, SmarterEveryDay, Ijustine and many more. This gave the project greater media attention and a wide reach. The project was also well received beyond the borders of YouTube, with a donation of 5 million US dollars after just 48 hours. In addition to donations from the community, the project also received donations of larger sums between 50,000 and 1 million US dollars from celebrities and entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk , Jack Dorsey , Tobias Lütke and Susan Wojcicki . The Ukraine has donated money to the project. The YouTube platform, which is essential for the dissemination and success of the project, also made a significant financial contribution, including by waiving fees for donations made to the project via YouTube.

On December 19, 2019, the campaign reached its set target of $ 20 million, 12 days before the call for funds ended. 9 days later, MrBeast announced in a video that he might turn TeamTrees into an annual fundraiser.

Controversy

In 2018, the culture magazine The Atlantic and the online homosexual community Hornet discussed whether MrBeast was homophobic , as he often uses slang expressions such as fag and gay on Twitter . Donaldson denied that he was in any way offensive.

Web links

Commons : MrBeast  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e MrBeast in Social Blade. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Honey: 20 Questions with MrBeast | Honey Originals. In: YouTube. Google, July 1, 2019, accessed July 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Night Media Signs Top Influencer, “MrBeast”. Buisness Wire, January 23, 2019, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Steven Asarch: How YouTuber MrBeast Pulled off a real-life battle royale in Three Weeks. Newsweek, April 2, 2019, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Taylor Wanbaugh: Greenville YouTuber MrBeast racks up millions of views. Business North Carolina, July 30, 2018, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Ewan Palmer: Who is MrBeast? North Carolina Server tipped $ 10,000 for Two Drinks by Youtube Star. Newsweek, October 22, 2018, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Viral campaign #TeamTrees: This is how the Internet should save the forest. SWR3 , October 29, 2019, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Julia Alexander: MrBeast partners with more than 600 YouTubers, including PewDiePie and MKBHD, to plant 20 million trees. The Verge, October 25, 2019, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b TeamTrees donation stand. In: TeamTrees.org. December 19, 2019, accessed December 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Adam Rosenberg: YouTubers fighting climate change celebrate 20 million trees planted. In: Mashable. December 21, 2019, accessed December 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ #TeamTrees, we did it! In: TeamTrees' official Twitter account. December 19, 2019, accessed December 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Important Youtube Announcement (please watch). Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Matt Keeley: Is MrBeast, the YouTuber Who Gives Away Massive Amounts of Money, a Homophobe or Just a Brat? From: hornet.com , June 2, 2018, accessed November 2, 2019.
  14. ↑ Taylor Lorenz: 'YouTube's Biggest Philanthropist' Has a History of Homophobic Comments In: The Atlantic. May 24, 2018, accessed November 1, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME MrBeast
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donaldson, Jimmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American web video producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenville , North Carolina , USA