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MrBeast
James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, media personality, businessman, philanthropist, and actor. He is the founder of Beast Industries, a conglomerate that holds various media channels, MrBeast Burger, Feastables, Lunchly, and more. He produces high-paced YouTube videos built around elaborate challenges and philanthropic efforts that are noted for their…
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business · American YouTuber and philanthropist (born 1998) · YouTuber · entrepreneur · also MrBeast
Born 7 May 1998 · Q57618112
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2026· 27 entries
Yahoo: MrBeast and rapper Lil Baby spotted filming in Greenville
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Published video “Can You Pass This Classroom Quiz?”.
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Yahoo: What Is The 'MrBeast Rizz Dance' Meme? The Viral AI Meme Of MrBeast That Became A Reality And The Most Reposted TikTok Ever Explained
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Published video “Can You Spot the Chocolate Object?”.
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Published video “Last To Leave Mansion, Keeps It”.
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Published video “First to Buy Lunchly Wins a Surprise”.
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Insider: MrBeast's pitch decks reveal how the creator's business ambitions have changed over time
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Elite Daily: Is MrBeast's Viral Liquid Death Peanut Butter Water Actually... Good?
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Published video “I Turned Chocolate Into Water”.
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Published video “Mr Rizz IRL”.
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Published video “I Made S'mores Cookies”.
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Published video “Paying For Food With My Car”.
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Published video “Parents React to Peanut Butter Cup Ingredients”.
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Published video “World’s Largest Feastables S’more”.
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Published video “I Granted 100 Kids Their Biggest Wish!”.
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Published video “Read My Book, You Could Win $1,000,000”.
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Donaldson announced on social media that he "may or may not be getting married"
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Published video “Don't Pop the Balloon”.
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Published video “$1 vs $10,000 Cake”.
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Published video “Would A Baby Choose $10,000 or Feastables?”.
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Published video “Survive 30 Days Chained To A Stranger, Win $250,000”.
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Published video “This Plane Takes Off in 12 Seconds”.
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Published video “I Raced The Fastest Man On Earth”.
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Published video “YouTube Legends Try Feastables”.
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Donaldson became the first creator to reach 500 million YouTube subscribers, marking the milestone with a live stream countdown
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Published video “Don't Eat The Spicy Chocolate”.
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2025· 8 entries
Donaldson and Rober launched #TeamWater to raise $40 million for WaterAid by the end of the month
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Donaldson became the first YouTuber to surpass 400 million subscribers
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The series was renewed for two additional seasons
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Donaldson and Uruguayan YouTuber Fede Vigevani hosted an influencer basketball game featuring a team of Spanish-speaking creators and a team of English-speaking creators
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USA Today rated the claim “Pentagon paid MrBeast 'to get kids to enlist’ in the military” False.
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Announced a collaboration with James Patterson on a thriller novel slated for publication by HarperCollins in 2026
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After proposing to her on December 25, 2024
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Co-founded Team Water, another fundraiser that raised over $40 million for WaterAid
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2024· 7 entries
Donaldson released Beast Games on Amazon Prime Video
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Donaldson uploaded his 300 million subscribers special, "50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000"
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Donaldson became the first YouTuber to surpass 300 million subscribers
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Amid the 2024 campaign, he tweeted, "If we lower the age to run for president I'll jump in the race," a remark that went viral before he clarified on X that he was simply restating his apolitical stance
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Donaldson surpassed India-based music label and film production company T-Series for the title of the most subscribed channel on YouTube, with 267 million
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Snopes rated the claim “An online offer says YouTuber MrBeast launched a casino game mobile app for gambling named "The Beast Plinko."” Scam.
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That he was moving on from the venture and sought to close it because of quality concerns that he believed were hurting his brand
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2023· 6 entries
Donaldson surpassed 200 million subscribers
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Snopes rated the claim “As of May 2023, YouTuber MrBeast had bought up nearly an entire neighborhood in Greenville, North Carolina, for his family, friends, and employees.” Research In Progress.
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Snopes rated the claim “YouTuber MrBeast died in March 2023.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “The YouTuber known as MrBeast announced that he would be renting out Disney World's Magic Kingdom park to shoot a new video.” Labeled Satire.
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Time named him one of the world's 100 most influential people, and the magazine included him in its 2025 Time 100 Creators list
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2022· 2 entries
Donaldson achieved the Guinness World Record of "Most Subscribers for an Individual Male on YouTube" with his MrBeast channel at 112 million subscribers
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Donaldson surpassed 100 million subscribers on his main channel, making him the fifth channel and the second individual YouTuber to achieve the milestone
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2021· 6 entries
Donaldson and Rober introduced #TeamSeas to raise $30 million by January 1, 2022, for the Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup, with the goal of removing 30 million pounds (14 million kilograms) of debris from oceans,
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Awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 (2021).
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Awarded Custom Play Button (2021).
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Donaldson released the "YouTube Rewind 2020, Thank God It's Over" video
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That he had "grown up and matured into someone that doesn't speak like that"
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Would have placed him 40th in the 2020 Forbes Celebrity 100, earning as much money as Vin Diesel and Lewis Hamilton did in 2020
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2020· 1 entry
Announcing a dedicated food bank and naming longtime collaborator Darren Margolias as executive director
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2019· 1 entry
Donaldson and fellow YouTuber Mark Rober launched #TeamTrees on YouTube to raise $20 million for the Arbor Day Foundation by January 1, 2020, so the group could plant one tree per donated dollar by December 2022
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2018· 3 entries
Awarded Diamond Play Button (2018).
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A competition to become the most-subscribed channel on YouTube, Donaldson bought billboards and numerous television and radio advertisements to help PewDiePie gain more subscribers than T-Series
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Because of what he viewed as unreasonable expectations and later received death threats from fans after sharing his experience
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Gold Play Button (2017).
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Donaldson published an almost day-long video of himself counting to 100,000, which became his breakthrough viral video
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2016· 3 entries
Earned Silver Play Button (2016).
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Studied at East Carolina University (2016).
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Donaldson graduated from Greenville Christian Academy, a private evangelical Christian high school in the area
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1998· 1 entry
Born 1998-05-07.
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