- (Mark) 20 million trees by 2020.
That gives us two months. - Two months.
- Hell yeah.
- Planting a tree is sexy.
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- (MrBeast) Every time I hit a million subscribers,
I do some cool video to celebrate.
- Yo, MrBeast.
- (MrBeast) When I hit 20 million subscribers,
there was this one idea that was very sticky.
It was plant 20 million trees. - Yes.
- (MrBeast) It was plant 20 million trees.
- Oh, that's cool.
- (MrBeast) Lots of people were suggesting that--
- He's such a good person.
- (MrBeast) And we just plant a bunch of trees.
- Hell yeah.
- No, they're actually doing it?
- (MrBeast) For the last four months, Mark and I--
- Ah, I love Mark Rober.
- This is my two favorite YouTubers.
- (MrBeast) Have been working out a way where we could
band together a bunch of influencers and actually
plant 20 million trees. - Great.
- That's so many trees.
- (MrBeast) That's our goal. 20 million trees by 2020.
Basically, we need your help because we have two months.
- I'm in, I'm in.
- (Mark) We went through a bunch of different options
on how to pull this off and eventually settled
on working with the Arbor Day Foundation.
- Ooh.
- (Mark) Dedicated to just planting trees and they've been
doing this for over 50 years. We got them to agree
that for every dollar we could raise,
they would plant one tree. - One for one, that's good.
- (Mark) If someone donates two dollars,
two more trees will exist in the world than if
they didn't donate at all, so the punchline is
to plant 20 million trees, we're really looking
to raise 20 million dollars. - That's huge.
- (Mark) And we got the domain for TeamTrees.org.
- That's so cool.
- (MrBeast) But we need help. Mark and I will be
dropping videos at 1 PM Pacific Time on October 25th.
As part of the video, we will be inspiring people
to head to TeamTrees.org and donate.
- That's awesome.
- (MrBeast) In some form, you join us and do the same.
- I got you, MrBeast.
- (MrBeast) Just to be super clear, this isn't about
my channel or Mark's channel. - Wow, that's a really positive
spin on the big celebration of, "I hit a huge milestone."
- (MrBeast) We want as many influencers as possible
to drop a video on October 25th at 1 PM Pacific Time.
- This is great. Oh my God.
- (Mark) Of course we know that this initiative alone
is not gonna fix climate change.
- But it will help.
- (Mark) To start the decade with a super clear message
that people really do care about this.
- It's a really good message.
- (Mark) The last decade was a kick to the nuts
in many ways. - Yeah, all of our
rain forests dying.
- (Mark) A clear message to the policy makers
that taking action on the climate is something
that needs to happen now. - Now, yes.
- (MrBeast) We could potentially plant hundreds of millions of trees.
Holy crap, that would be awesome. - Okay, despite anybody's
wrong opinions on climate change,
I don't think anybody could possibly be like,
"20 million more trees? I don't think so."
- MrBeast has a lot of videos that help certain people,
but this is one that helps the entire world.
I'm really excited about this.
- (FBE) So, we have another video to show you in a second,
but about a month ago or so, the YouTubers Mark Rober
and MrBeast sent this video to us along with a bunch
of other YouTubers to band together and help plant
20 million trees. - That's [bleep] insane.
He can tell 20 million people, "Hey, let's each go plant
one tree. Change the world."
- I find that super cool how all of this can happen
from YouTubers and stuff. It's really inspiring.
- (FBE) Now, we have a short update video about
the response from the YouTubers and showing how excited
everybody's getting for today when this is actually all
gonna go live. - Wow.
Oh my God, I'm so excited to see it.
- (Mark) Our insane goal is to plant 20 million trees
by 2020. That gives us two months.
- Two months.
- (Mark) 20 million trees by 2020.
- Wow, shoot. 2019's almost over.
- (Mark) And we started circulating this idea around
with a video a few weeks ago and the response has been
freaking awesome.
- (Jabrils) Doesn't matter if you have 100 subscribers
or 100 million subscribers because we're all in this together.
- Yo, papa PewDiePie.
- PewDiePie. - (PewDiePie) At least
a couple of trees. - God, memes for charity, man.
- (MKBHD) We can do this. - It's easily attainable
with how many people they're doing this with.
- (Hannah) 20 million more of these by 2020.
- That's it, make planting a tree sexy.
Planting a tree is sexy.
- (Hannah) I'm so excited to be a part of Team Trees.
So excited. - And this is why we have
tree huggers.
- (Alex) Alex from Minute Earth. Let's plant some trees.
- (Gavin) It's so oddly doable. - It is.
- (Gavin) That YouTube has ever seen.
- Yeah.
- (Gavin) Too many trees. - What a problem to have.
- It's like an unofficial YouTube rewind.
- Try Guys, yes. - (man) We're filming
a music video.
- Smarter Every Day, I love him.
- (Destin) It looks like the end of Power Rangers
when they would all assemble into the big thing
and fight stuff together and do good.
- (MrBeast) Pretty much everyone that saw
that first video was 100% on board.
They're like, "How can I help?" - These are such crazy
big YouTubers.
- (MrBeast) If you take the average views of all those creators,
it's actually in the hundreds of millions.
- That's great.
- (MrBeast) So obviously, we need your help
and there's two ways you can help Team Trees.
- (Mark) The first is you just make a normal video
on your channel and just upload it any time
after October 25th at noon Pacific. - Oh my God, that's what
we're doing. Nice.
- Should I do it on my channel? I feel I gotta at least
shout out Team Trees.
- (Destin) I'm making a video about native species
and big trees all over the world.
- Hey Lily, what's up?
- (Lily) Tree out of thousands of dominoes,
then knocking it down and playing it in reverse.
- That's so fun.
- (Emily) Think about all the birds that are gonna
have new homes next year. - Oh, good.
Good thought.
- (MrBeast) We wanna show that YouTube isn't just
a drama fest, that we actually have real
influence and can make real change.
- Right.
- I really like it. It's a lot of people
just planting trees.
- (MrBeast) But hopefully, if we all band together
and show how much influence we actually have,
we can help change the perception a little.
- All right, try to plant some trees.
- (MrBeast) All of YouTube is gonna be filled
with videos like this. October 25th is going
to be insane. - That's gonna be really awesome.
- (Destin) Team Trees, assemble. - Team Trees.
- There are so many younger kids, way younger than me,
watching YouTubers and they are so easily
influenced by them. Use this opportunity with
their large platform to spread positivity.
- I'm very excited. The very first video
I ever did with you guys was a challenge
and I made a comment about people could be doing
something purposeful like planting a tree.
Maybe they need some suggestions on what
might be more fun. Challenge to see who could
plant the most trees.
- (FBE) For the audience, if you wanna get involved,
there's gonna be more about this later,
but you can click the donate button on this video
where one dollar equals one tree
and 100% of the donations go to this cause.
- Yeah, I feel like this is a charity that no one
can have a complaint about. Do you like living
on this planet? Well, let's try to keep it
as nice for as long as we can.
- Literally, that's so awesome. Instead of spending a dollar
in a vending machine and grabbing some Doritos,
go donate your dollar to plant a tree.
- (FBE) Before we jump into questions, to give you
a better idea of what 20 million looks like,
we actually have set up a kiddie pool
on the other side of the room that is completely full
of real tree leaves, but it's still just a fraction
of 20 million, so we're gonna take you
over there now. - Okay, let's go.
I'm ready to go swimming in some leaves.
- (FBE) So, this is actually only 10,000 leaves.
- Only? Only 10,000, it's fine.
- With the power of math and science, I can tell you
that this is ridiculous.
- (FBE) So, that means if each leaf represented
one tree that would be planted in this event,
we would have to have 2,000 more of these pools.
- Oh my goodness. - (FBE) Yeah.
- Wow, that's a lot.
- You hear 20 million and you're like,
"Yeah, that's a big number." But seeing it in this scale,
it's not real. That's insane.
- (FBE) So by literally seeing how large this number is,
how big of an impact do you think this could have
on the world? - Oh my gosh, it could be amazing.
It cools the neighborhood. It makes the air fresher.
- A lot more oxygen. It would help the environment a lot.
- This is way beyond what I would have ever imagined
YouTube as a community to come together and be like,
let's help show everybody, hey, global warming
and climate change is very real and we can
do something about it.
- With his audience and all the other YouTubers'
audiences combined, I'm pretty sure it's not
near impossible to do this.
- To see all of these people that all of these kids
and people growing up look up to and being like,
oh, there are positive influences and there are
positive role models and there are people
that want to do good for the planet overall
and it's just inspiring.
- (FBE) So, we here at FBE are so honored to be a part
of the Team Trees movement, since we are passionate
about using our channel to help out other foundations
and charities like the Arbor Day Foundation
and this may be one of the biggest events
in YouTube history. - Yeah.
I mean, if you don't count Area 51.
- I can't picture any other YouTube fundraising event
quite like this.
- (FBE) This is a reminder everyone at home
can participate in this as well by donating
at TeamTrees.org, which you can do by clicking
the donate button on the right side of this video.
- So it's been made really easy for you to do.
- (FBE) Overall, what are your thoughts on how hundreds
of YouTubers are gonna be coming together for one
charity event? - I think it's actually insane.
The whole YouTube community is getting involved
in one giant thing just to help out the environment.
- MrBeast has hit 20 million subscribers, which is a milestone
in and of itself, but the thing is,
he's using that milestone to spread the word
and do something great for the Earth.
- YouTubers have so much influence over anything
and the fact that I feel like this past year has been
so dramatic and so many YouTubers like picking
each other apart that it's kind of refreshing
to see this.
- It's super cool as a community,
especially as a community that kinda tends to not
get taken as importantly or as seriously as other
communities or industries to show everybody
that we have the wherewithal to organize and communicate
and band together.
- After the big Popeye chicken sandwich thing,
to see how social media can so influence people
to act up. To see this, I think has been--
will heal that feeling in me.
- (FBE) The creators behind Team Trees are Mark Rober
and Jimmy, who's better known as MrBeast.
- Yes. - (FBE) So, Jimmy is known
for creating outrageous giveaway videos as well as doing
experiments for fun like putting 100 million Orbeez
in his backyard. - Yeah, sounds about right.
- (FBE) While on the other hand, Mark creates educational
and science themed videos on his YouTube channel
as he used to work for NASA working on the Curiosity rover.
- Oh my gosh, and now he's a YouTuber?
They do two different types of videos and then
here they are together. You would never imagine that.
- They realized that alone, you can do something really good,
but together, and really together,
you can just make things amazing.
- It's cool the evolution of collabs,
'cause it used to just be like, "Hey, we're two people.
Let's get drunk in front of a camera
and film something dumb and it'll take 20 minutes."
and now it's this entire business of like,
"Hey, let's start a movement." 'Cause you can at this point.
Why sit still when you can run on a treadmill?
- He's proving the point that no matter how different
two people can be, that they can come together
and achieve a common cause.
- (FBE) One of the things that Mark and MrBeast
mentioned in the video is that they want to help
the YouTubers have a better public image and show
that the YouTube community can band together for good,
'cause over the past few years, there have been some times
that some popular YouTube creators were in the news
for more negative events or actions, kind of leading
those who don't really understand YouTube
to believe that reflects all of its creators,
so for you, do you think that Team Trees could
help change people's perception of YouTube
and the creators on the platform?
- I mean, yeah. I think YouTube is always
gonna be split into a [bleep] ton of different
categories and there's always gonna be the drama
and the people that do outrageous [bleep]
because they wanna get popular and they
wanna make money and that's just life,
but also like life, there's people that just
wanna help out.
- Absolutely. Every time you hear
about a YouTuber in the news, it's always
something bad. That kind of stuff is bad
publicity for YouTube and all that stuff,
so the fact that so many creators on YouTube
are help banding together for such a great cause,
of course it's gonna make everyone that's not
on YouTube believe that YouTube isn't such
a bad platform.
- It's super important that the global community
sees us as YouTubers banding together
helping combat climate change and it's not just a bunch
of dorks talking on-- doing silly things
on the internet.
- I just hope that this continues and I hope
other YouTubers look to MrBeast and see more
of a role model.
- (FBE) So finally, what do you want to say to those at home
who are thinking of donating to Team Trees?
- You haven't donated yet? How dare you.
You should totally donate.
- If you can't donate, just help spread the word
on your social media, whether it's Instagram,
Snapchat, anything. It is that easy.
- The money can be as small as you want or it can be
as large as you want, so let's try.
Let's do it. I'm gonna do it.
- We appreciate you from the bottom of your hearts
here at FBE and everyone that is participating
in this worldwide phenomenon, so thank you guys.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Generations React
and shoutout to Sharon Amayi.
- If you wanna donate, go to TeamTrees.org.
- Bye.
- Hey everybody, Lauren, producer here at FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this episode
and shoutout to MrBeast and Mark Rober for
putting this all together, so please go to TeamTrees.org
to donate or click the little button right over there.
Bye, everyone.