When Jimmy Donaldson goes by the name Mr. Beast on social media, he is a well-known star. He has more than 47.8 million followers on his own YouTube channel. Mr. Beast is one of the most popular YouTube stars in the United States of America because of this. When he started posting videos called “Worst Intros on YouTube,” he became famous as a YouTuber. When he started posting videos that no one else had seen or heard before, his popularity grew even more. This is how it works: he came up with a type of YouTube video that is all about expensive stunts. Mr. Beast has a large following on other social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram.
Early life and work
Jimmy Donaldson was born on May 7, 1998, in Greenville, North Carolina, in the United States of America. Mr. Beast is named after that date. She raised him, and he grew up together with his brother.
In 2012, he set up a YouTube account and started posting random videos. It was when he made a series of videos called “Worst Intros on YouTube.” When he started making videos about video games, he became more popular. He made Minecraft Factions: A Guy Sent His Home to Our Base and Buried Round 50 Gameplay Black Ops 2 Zombies.
After posting videos about games for a few years, he came up with an expensive video that cost a lot of money. In fact, Mr. Beast started spending a lot of money on the internet, and he also started making unique videos like $5 for Hot Girls To Advertise Your YouTube Channel.
In videos like “Giving A Random Homeless Man $10,000,” Mr. Beast became famous across the country. He kept making videos like this and said that an app called “Quidd” was paying for the money he was giving away.
Then, he started giving money to people who were streaming on Twitch. Now that his channel was getting a lot of attention, Mr. Beast didn’t stop there. He made videos that no one else had seen or heard before.
In his videos, he talks about how he bought a car with only pennies, gave $30,000 to a random Twitch streamer, used leaf blowers to fly, and can 100,000 pieces of paper stop a bullet?
His YouTube channel isn’t the only one that he has on there. Some of these are Mr. Beast Shorts, Beast Philanthropy, Mr. Beast Gaming, and Beast Reacts.
Mr. Beast is also very popular on other social media sites. He owns an online store that sells T-shirts as well as other clothes. It’s a company called “Quidd.” Mr. Beast works for them.
Controversy
As of 2018, FlyyDoesYT was accusing Mr. Beast of making fake videos. Many people took the 25-minute video seriously because FlyyDoesYT had worked for Mr. Beast for a week as an editor and had seen it.
According to a fellow YouTuber, Mr. Beast was accused of mistreating his employees by asking them to film his videos, which made them unhappy. Also, he said that Mr. Beast pretends in front of the camera and that it’s not his real self in front of the camera.
Mr. Beast responded to the accusations by tweeting that he had given away a lot of money for real and that he wasn’t faking anything in front of the camera, as some people said. People can go up to people who got the money and ask them if they got it for real, he said.
Also, he said that he has Crohn’s disease and that when he doesn’t feel well, he asks his employees to help finish the videos.
Personal life
In some of his videos, Mr. Beast’s mother has been seen. So far, more than 22 million people have seen one of his videos about giving his mom $100,000. She has also been in some of his prank videos.
Graduated from Greenville Christian Academy in 2016. Dropped out of college to become a full-time YouTube star. To be more specific, he has a sister and a brother named CJ Donaldson. CJ is also on YouTube and has a channel named “Mr. Bro.” Crohn’s disease is something that Mr. Beast has. He is in a relationship with Maddy Spidell, a model on Instagram.
When it comes to politics, Mr. Beast is very open. Comedic videos about Donald Trump were made by him a lot in 2016. A philanthropist, Mr. Beast is very kind when he helps people who are close to him.