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Meet MrBeast, the Highest Paid Youtuber in the World 2022 (Forbes)
Jimmy Donaldson popularly known as MrBeast is currently the highest-paid Youtuber in the world 2022 with a earning of $54m (£39m) from over 10billion views.
MrBeast is currently the highest-paid Youtuber in the world. Mr Beast real name is Jimmy Donaldson and he was born May 7, 1998. He is an American YouTuber with 85.6million subscribers and has received billions of views in total from his videos. An Internet personality, businessman, and philanthropist. He was credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that center on expensive stunts.
These elaborate stunts have generated more than 10 billion views on the platform and earned him $54m (£39m). MrBeast is popularly known as “Youtube’s biggest philanthropist.”
He began his donations when he started getting sponsorships from companies, such as Quid. He started giving money away to whoever he could: the homeless, Twitch streamers, family, friends, and followers. At one point, he walked around his city handing out $1,000 to multiple homeless people in the area. As his popularity grows, so does the amount of money Donaldson gives away.
What Does MrBeast Do?
He is also the founder of MrBeast Burger that he launched in 2020 and also 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 has raised over $30 million.
MrBeast joined Youtube in 2012, originally uploading videos of video game playthroughs and net worth estimates of fellow YouTubers. However, in January 2017, he uploaded a video of him counting to 100,000, which took a total of 40 hours.
That video went viral, hence he joined a competition from PewDiePie to become the most-subscribed channel on Youtube. MrBeast launched his own charity, Beast Philanthropy. He joined forces with NASA engineer Mark Rober to raise money for millions of trees to be planted, known as Team Trees.
MrBeast also has helped to raise over $18.5million for Team Seas, a program set to remove waste from oceans.
Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast)
What is MrBeast’s net worth?
Mr Beast is worth $25million in 2022 according to Celebrity Net Worth.
In 2021, he recreated elements of Netflix hit Squid Game on his channel, played hide and seek in an 80,000-seater stadium and was buried underground. However, his 10 billion views, alongside the MrBeast burger franchise, meant Jimmy Donaldson almost doubled his income in 2021 after ranking second on this list the previous year.
His videos feature attention-grabbing stunts. MrBeast makes videos where he donates large amounts of money to individuals. Many of these videos are being sponsored by various companies.
He sometimes hosts competitions in games, such as Minecraft, for big money prizes which includes donating a house in one of his gaming videos. MrBeast was accused of using counterfeit money in a November 2019 video.
However, he later explained that he used fake money to mitigate the potential safety and security risks caused by a rush of people clamoring to get the free money, and claimed that he exchanged the counterfeit bills for a reality check for everyone afterwards.