By mid-2016, Donaldson had around 30,000 subscribers.
In 20, Donaldson began to gain popularity on the platform due to his "worst intros" series of videos, which rounded up and poked fun at YouTuber introductions he discovered on the site.
In July 2013, the subscriber count of his channel, then named "That-dude", was around 240. During this early period of his channel, Donaldson himself made few appearances in his videos. Ĭhris Tyson, prominent in many MrBeast videosĭonaldson uploaded his first YouTube video in February 2012, at the age of 13, under the handle "MrBeast6000" his early content ranged from Let's Plays (mainly focused on Minecraft and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2), videos estimating the wealth of other YouTubers, videos that offered tips to upcoming YouTube creators, and commentary on YouTube drama. Donaldson is also the founder of MrBeast Burger and Feastables, and a co-creator of Team Trees, a fundraiser for the Arbor Day Foundation that has raised over $23 million, and Team Seas, a fundraiser for Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup that has raised over $30 million. He was also one of the 10 highest-paid YouTubers of 2020. He also runs several other YouTube channels, including Beast Reacts, MrBeast Gaming, MrBeast Shorts, and a philanthropy channel. ĭonaldson's main YouTube channel, which had nearly 94 million subscribers in April 2022, is called "MrBeast". As of 2022, the MrBeast team was made up of 60 people. Once his channel took off, Donaldson hired several of his childhood friends to help him run the growing brand. Over time, his style of content diversified to include challenge and donation videos that reward thousands of dollars, videos with arduous tasks or survival challenges, and original vlogs. 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.
He has been credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that centers on expensive stunts. Jimmy Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTube personality, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.