MrBeast is an American YouTuber currently residing in Greenville, North Carolina. He is known for doing a wide variety of expensive challenge videos that reward thousands of dollars, donation videos involving a lot of money, videos either with arduous tasks or survival, original vlogging videos, and more.
He started the channel in 2012 at the age of 13. He was initially known for uploading the "Worst Intros" series, a series of videos where he reviewed small pre-teen YouTubers with funny or "bad" intros. Over the years, as he gained more sponsor money, he became a lot more generous and helpful to others.
With unrelenting passion and devotion to finishing arduous, yet creative, challenges, Jimmy has become an extremely popular YouTuber in recent years, and one of the most subscribed non-corporate YouTube channels, having reached the 60 million subscribers milestone in April 2021 and 100 million subscribers in July 2021. His main channel is the 7th most subscribed channel in the world and the 2nd most subscribed channel in the United States. With the exclusion of children-oriented channels, corporate channels, and channels of music artists, MrBeast is the second most subscribed YouTuber, only behind PewDiePie.
