Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast is a famous YouTuber. He is famous for his expenses stunts. He is just 23 years old. And in 2021, he earned a net income of $54 million which was double from 2020. His videos have the highest number of views on YouTube. As of 2022, the net worth of MrBeast is $8 million.
MrBeast Career
MrBeast was born on 7 May 1998, in Greenville, North Carolina and he completed his schooling and graduated from Greenville Christian Academy in 2016.
MrBeast started posing videos on his channel at 16 years of age. And he also dropped out of college to pursue his passion as a full-time job. In 2020, the number of subscribers his YouTube had was approximately 46.6 million.
In the early stages of his career, his videos were related to reaction videos, commentary of games and finally compilations. As he succeeded in his career as a YouTuber he started making expensive and well-known stunt videos. He also has an online store from where people can purchase an amazing range of T-shirts.
MrBeast has millions of followers on various social media platforms and he is also a creator of a foundation called ‘Team Trees’, this organization raises funds for various foundations such as the Arbor Day Foundation.
His Success Story
His first video that gained popularity was ‘counting to 100000’. He released this video in 2017 and till now it has been watched more than 21 million times. The video showed how he spent 44 hours counting 100000.
Seeing the success of the video, he later posted a video of ‘counting to 200000’. His successful videos also include reading the dictionary, reading the ‘Bee Movie’ script, saying ‘Logan Paul’ 10000 times in a day and listening to ‘Jack Paul’s music video 10 hours straight in a day.
In comparison to 2020, the number of followers on his YouTube channel has increased enormously as in 2022; his YouTube channel followers were approximately 90 million. Some of his videos have also been watched more than 10 billion times.
His average videos have also been watched more than 12 million times. His followers on other social media platforms include 13 million on TikTok, 12 million followers on Instagram, and 9 million followers on Twitter.
In July 2020, the number of subscribers grew around 400000 in just a week and the views of his videos crossed the mark of 80 million. In the same year, he became one of the 20 most popular personalities on YouTube also.
His Awards
He has been nominated for several awards several times and has won various awards also. At the 2019 Shorty Awards, he was nominated for the Vlogger of the Year award and he won the Breakout Creator Award.
He helped PewDiePie get more subscribers than T-Series on his YouTube channel. For the same purpose, he purchased billboards and made radio advertisements also.
In 2021 also he was nominated for the Kids’ Choice Award. In 2020, he also won the YouTuber of the year award and the Creator of the Year award at the Streamy Awards. In the same year, he won several awards for the NGO work he has been doing.
His other businesses
In the USA, with a partnership with around 300 restaurants, MrBeast launched the ‘BeastBurger’. He also launched an application for the same n the Apple Store.
And after launching the application in a day, the application became the most popular application on the platform that people could download free of cost. Currently, he has sold more than a million burgers in the USA.
He also owns a website called shopmrbeast. Com where he sells a range of cool and amazing clothes that include hoodies, t-shirts, water bottles, hats, backpacks and several such other products. These amazing ranges of merchandise account for around 40% of his annual income.
MrBeast also does charity work and has donated millions for the people. He also raises millions from his customers for charity purposes. He donates the revenue he earns from his youtube videos. He has donated revenue to several foundations and programs such as the Veterans Army Wounded Warrior Program and Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Through his revenue, he provides shelter to the homeless and animals also. For example, one of his earned and donated $10000 for the shelter of the homeless people in 2018.
He also works for several foundations such as the Arbor Day Foundation. To help the foundation, MrBeast partnered with a NASA engineer and another YouTuber called Mark Rober and started ‘Team Trees’. He started ‘Team Trees’ in 2019.
The major aim of the foundation was to raise around $20 in the next three to four months for the Arbor Day Foundation. The organization also promised to plant a tree for every one dollar raised.
Other celebrities and YouTubers also joined the cause and help MrBeast raise millions of dollars. His foundation made a record as the ‘Team Trees’ raised around $4 million within 24 hours of its launch.
He launched ‘Team Trees’ in October 2019 and by the end of December 2019, the foundation raised around $20 million.
His Personal Life
In ninth grade, MrBeast was diagnosed with an inflammatory condition called Crohn’s disease and in his various interviews, he has mentioned his long battle with the disease and how the disease affected him badly as before being diagnosed, he used to fall sick every second day and also he lost around 30 pounds because of the disease which caused him extreme discomfort. He follows regular medication and a strict diet.
In 2019, he met Maddy Spidell on Twitter and they had been dating since then. In February 2020, he made his relationship official with Maddy by posting a video on his Youtube channel and the video currently has crossed the mark of around 50 million views. Both of them featured in many of his YouTube videos together after February 2020.
So, the net worth of MrBeast is around $8 million and is increasing the increasing number of subscribers on his YouTube Channel.
