Mrbeast Real Name, Net Worth, Girlfriend, Age, Biography, Height, House
Who is Mrbeast?
MrBeast's real name is Jimmy Donaldson. He is an American YouTube star, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.
Jimmy Donaldson MrBeast is well-known for his YouTube stunts in which he donates large amounts of money to friends or charities.
He is considered the pioneer of philanthropic YouTube stunt videos. He is also one of the highest-paid YouTubers on the planet.
In 2020 he earned $24 million from his YouTube channel, merchandise sales, and sponsorships with brands like Microsoft and Electronic Arts.
Jimmy reportedly invests the majority of his video earnings back into video production. He now spends as much as $300,000 producing one video, up from $10,000 a few years ago. His stunts tend to have a philanthropic angle, like giving money to strangers or adopting an entire shelter of rescue dogs.
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As of this writing, his three main channels, MrBeast, MrBeast Shorts, and Beast Reacts boast a combined 90+ million subscribers. That combined subscriber count technically makes MrBeast the most-subscribed US-based YouTube creator. PewDiePie is the most-subscribed individual creator in the world with 110 million subscribers on his main channel alone. You can also check out Young Lyric.
MrBeast's Net Worth
What is MrBeast's Net Worth and salary? Mr. Beast has a net worth of $25 million. He makes a minimum of $3 million per month from YouTube ads alone. That does not include in-video brand deals.
How old is MrBeast?
Jimmy Donaldson was born on May 7, 1998. He is 24 years old as of 2022.
Early Life and Career Beginnings
Jimmy Donaldson was in Greenville, North Carolina where he attended Greenville Christian Academy, graduating in 2016.
He started posting videos to YouTube when he was 12 years old under the user name "MrBeast6000". He briefly attended college but dropped out to pursue a YouTube career full-time.
In his early videos, he primarily posted video game commentary, reaction videos, and funny compilations.
MrBeast's Success
Jimmy first gained widespread popularity after the release of the video "counting to 100,000" in 2017. In the video, he spent 44 hours counting to 100,000. The video would go on to be viewed more than 21 million times.
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He followed up with a video where he counted to 200,000. Other popular accomplishments include reading the dictionary, reading the "Bee Movie" script, ubering across America, saying "Logan Paul" 100,000 times, and watching the awful Jake Paul music video "It's Every Day Bro" on repeat for 10 hours straight.
Today his YouTube accounts have more than 90 million combined subscribers and have generated more than 10 billion video views. Most average videos are viewed more than 20 million times. The popular YouTuber has 12 million followers on Instagram, 9 million followers on Twitter, and 13 million followers on TikTok.
Jim is associated with PewDiePie and purchased billboards and radio advertisements to help him get more subscribers than T-Series. He was nominated for Vlogger of the Year at the 2019 Shorty Awards. He won the Breakout Creator award. In addition, he was nominated for a 2020 Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Male Social Star. The 25 years old Jimmy Donaldson won the 2020 YouTuber of the Year award. He also was the 2020 Creator of the Year at the Streamy Awards.
In one week alone in July 2020, MrBeast gained 400,000 new subscribers and had more than 80 million video views. The success made him the 20th most-popular personality on YouTube during that period.
Stunt Philanthropy
Jimmy really hit pay dirt in 2018 when he began the practice of "stunt philanthropy". In one particularly popular video from this period, MrBeast gave $1,000 to strangers. Millions of fans soon subscribed to his channels which saw him giving away hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even $1 million.
In December 2019 he posted a video that challenged people to keep their hand on a stack of $1 million in cash. The last person to remove their hand from the stack got to keep the money:
MrBeast Awards
MrBeast has been nominated for a number of prominent awards during his career so far. In 2019 he won Breakout Creator at the Streamy Awards. That same year he was nominated for Ensemble Cast and Creator of the Year.
In 2020, MrBeast won the following Streamy Awards:
- Creator of the Year
- Live Special
- Social Good: Creator
- Social Good: Nonprofit of NGO
- That same year he won the YouTuber of the year award at the Shorty Awards.
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In 2021 he was nominated for Favorite Male Social Star at the Kids' Choice Awards. At the 2022 Kids' Choice Awards MrBeast won the Favorite Male Creator award. Upon accepting the award, he was slimed.
Personal Life
Jimmy suffers from an inflammatory bowel condition called Crohn's disease. He was diagnosed with the disease in ninth grade. Over the years, he has mentioned the long-term battle he waged against the debilitating condition. Prior to being diagnosed, he was getting sick nearly every day and at one point lost 30 pounds over the summer because of the extreme discomfort. In addition to medication, Mr. Beast follows a fairly strict diet.
Girlfriend
In June 2019, Jimmy began dating Maddy Spidell. They met over Twitter.
Maddy was revealed as MrBeast's girlfriend for the first time in a February 2020 video titled "Surprising My Girlfriend With 100,000 Roses for Valentine's Day." That video has more than 50 million views as of this writing. Maddy has gone on to appear in several more MrBeast videos, including "I Adopted Every Dog in a Dog Shelter" and "I Spent 50 Hours in Solitary Confinement."
