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