He was mainly raised in a middle-class household, alongside his older brother Charles "C.J." Donaldson in Greenville, North Carolina. James Stephen Donaldson was born on May 7, 1998, in Wichita, Kansas, to father Stephen, and mother Sue. That year, Time magazine named him as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
Donaldson won the Creator of the Year award three times at the Streamy Awards in 2020, 2021, and 2022 he also won the Favorite Male Creator award twice at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in 20. ĭonaldson is 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 one of the 10 highest-paid YouTubers of 2020, having an estimated net worth of $500 million. He formerly ran MrBeast 3 (initially MrBeast 2), which is now inactive. Other than MrBeast, Donaldson runs the YouTube channels Beast Reacts, MrBeast Gaming, MrBeast 2 (formerly MrBeast Shorts), and the philanthropy channel Beast Philanthropy.
As of 2022, the MrBeast team is made up of 30 people, including Donaldson himself. Once his channel took off, Donaldson hired some of his childhood friends to co-run the 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. 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 began posting videos to YouTube in early 2012 at the age of 13 under the handle MrBeast6000. ĭonaldson grew up in a middle-class household in Greenville, North Carolina. With over 161 million subscribers as of June 2023, he is the most-subscribed individual user on the platform and the second-most-subscribed channel overall. He is credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that centers on expensive stunts. James Stephen Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber and philanthropist.
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