Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson isn’t your typical YouTuber. With a whopping global fanbase of 366 million subscribers and over 844 fast-paced and high-production videos, the 26-year-old star is officially the most followed YouTube creator on the planet (per Search Engine Journal).
Chances are you have encountered the internet’s top celebrity, philanthropist, and entrepreneur while scrolling on your phone. Donaldson was born May 1, 1998, and grew up in a middle-class household in Greenville, North Carolina.
In his early YouTube days, he relied on a 480p camera that felt like “rubbing sandpaper on the lens” (per Curiosity Stream), only to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in the process.
