In 2019, Donaldson won the Breakout Creator by Streamy Awards. Aside from his main channel, Donaldson has ten other YouTube channels, including MrBeast Shorts and MrBeast Gaming, the latter reaching over 10 million subscribers in less than one year. Across his eleven channels, Donaldson has 165.7 million combined subscribers, and 21.3 billion combined total views across eleven of these channels. As of 2020, the MrBeast team was made up of 30 people.Īs of December 17, 2021, Donaldson's main YouTube channel "MrBeast" has 85.5 million subscribers and 13.9 billion total views. It is the 6th most-subscribed channel on YouTube, as well as the second most subscribed channel owned by a YouTuber, and the most subscribed owned by a YouTuber from the United States. Jimmy Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), better known by his online alias MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, internet personality, businessman, and philanthropist. He has been credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that center on expensive stunts. He is also the founder of MrBeast Burger and the co-creator of Team Trees, a fundraiser for the Arbor Day Foundation, which has raised over $23 million, and Team Seas, a fundraiser for Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup, which aims to raise $30 million by January 1, 2022.ĭonaldson began posting videos to YouTube in early 2012 at the age of 13, under the handle "MrBeast6000" his early content ranged from Let's Plays to "videos estimating the wealth of other YouTubers". He went viral in 2017 after his "counting to 100,000" video earned tens of thousands of views in just a few days, and he has become increasingly popular ever since, with most of his videos gaining tens of millions of views. Over time, his style of content diversified to include challenge and donation videos that reward thousands of dollars, videos either with arduous tasks or survival, and original vlogging videos. Once his channel took off, Donaldson hired several of his childhood friends to help him run the growing brand. Isn't Mr Beast that annoying mumblng guy on Youtube?įrom his wikipedia so you can have accurate pictorial of him: