This person climbed the YouTube ladder soo fast! (Documentary)

MrBeast is an American UA-camr and philanthropist known for creating UA-cam videos featuring expensive stunts. He is considered a pioneer of this genre and his main UA-cam channel has over 130 million subscribers as of January 2023, making it the fourth-most-subscribed channel on the platform. Some consider MrBeast to be the most-subscribed channel owned by an individual.
Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast, is a popular American UA-camr and philanthropist with over 130 million subscribers on his main channel. He started posting videos on UA-cam at the age of 13 and went viral in 2017 after his "counting to 100,000" video gained thousands of views. His content has diversified to include challenge and donation videos, survival challenges, and original vlogs. Donaldson founded MrBeast Burger and Feastables and co-created Team Trees and Team Seas, fundraisers for the Arbor Day Foundation and Ocean Conservancy/The Ocean Cleanup, respectively. He has won multiple awards, including the Creator of the Year at the Streamy Awards and the Favorite Male Creator at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. Time magazine has also named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.
Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast, was born on May 7, 1998, in Wichita, Kansas, and grew up in Greenville, North Carolina with his older brother. He graduated from Greenville Christian Academy and was diagnosed with Crohn's disease during high school. Donaldson briefly attended East Carolina University before dropping out. His brother is also a UA-camr with over 4.34 million subscribers as of April 2023.
In April 2022, MrBeast announced in an interview with The Daily Beast that he is no longer an evangelical Christian and now identifies as agnostic. He also revealed that he has long disagreed with his former church's stance on homosexuality. MrBeast considers himself apolitical and doesn't want to alienate any of his followers based on their political views, as his goal is to feed hundreds of millions of people through his philanthropic efforts.
Jimmy Donaldson started posting videos on UA-cam at the age of 13 under the name "MrBeast6000", with content ranging from Let's Plays to videos estimating the wealth of other UA-camrs. His channel gained popularity in 2015 and 2016 with his "Worst intros on UA-cam" series. In fall 2016, Donaldson dropped out of college to pursue a full-time career as a UA-camr. He hired four childhood friends to contribute to his channel, and they used data analytics to predict the platform's recommendation system. As his channel grew, Franklin left the crew in 2020, and Karl Jacobs was promoted to take his place.
MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is a popular UA-camr known for his stunts and philanthropy. He gained fame in 2017 after publishing a video of himself counting to 100,000, and has since attempted various challenges such as breaking glass with megaphones, watching paint dry, and attempting to stay underwater for 24 hours. In addition to his stunts, Donaldson has given out $1 million to his viewers, earning him the title of "UA-cam's biggest philanthropist." He has also been involved in various events, such as buying billboards to help PewDiePie win a competition against T-Series, organizing a real-life battle royale competition, and hosting rock-paper-scissors tournaments with large cash prizes. However, Donaldson has also faced controversy, such as accusations of using counterfeit money in one of his videos and claims of cheating in a tournament won by the D'Amelio family.
MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is a popular UA-camr known for his attention-grabbing stunts and philanthropic acts. He gained fame for counting to 100,000, which took him 40 hours. He has organized various events such as a real-life battle royale competition and rock, paper, scissors tournament with large cash prizes. Donaldson has also been involved in controversy, including accusations of using counterfeit money in a video. He became the highest-earning creator on UA-cam in 2021, earning an estimated $54 million. He has achieved numerous milestones on UA-cam, including reaching 100 million subscribers and setting the Guinness World Record for "Most Subscribers for an Individual Male on UA-cam." In December 2022, he collaborated with Fortnite Battle Royale and held a tournament with a one million dollar prize. In February 2023, he appeared in a viral commercial for the NFL.
00:00 MrBeast Intro
00:49 MrBeast Childhood and Early Life
01:37 MrBeast First Video Ever
02:55 MrBeast Career
03:00 MrBeast Early Viral Attempts
04:45 MrBeast Rise to Fame
07:31 MrBeast Profitability
09:59 MrBeast Business Model
11:41 MrBeast Other Ventures
11:47 MrBeast Finger on The App
12:49 MrBeast Burger
14:21 MrBeast Investments
15:08 MrBeast Philanthropy
15:14 MrBeast Team Trees
16:41 Beast Philanthropy
18:01 MrBeast Public Image
20:01 MrBeast Outro
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