2023-08-18 19:39:25
Actually introverted: Mr. Beast nevertheless attracts an audience of millions on YouTube. Image: AFP
Mr. Beast is at the top of the largest video portal in the world. No matter what he does, it just seems to bring him more fans. Some have criticized his way of dealing with his notoriety.
Like many platform success stories, his career began with Minecraft. In February 2012, the then 13-year-old James Donaldson uploaded his first video to the YouTube platform. Two jerky minutes from the game with the digital building blocks, still with the “Bandicam” logo in the picture, the signet of a video software that amateur youtubers like to use to record their videos. Then, on August 12 of this year, Mr. Beast, as Donaldson is called on the platform, published a video of him renting the entire Eiffel Tower for himself and his friends for around $43,000 in one evening – including food at the starred restaurant and the inspection about the lighting.
As a single person, Donaldson maintains YouTube’s most popular channel with 176 million subscribers. Only the Indian music label T-Series is larger with 247 million subscribers. In the travel video, which was viewed almost 65 million times on Monday after it was uploaded, Donaldson also documents vacations in a luxury resort in the Caribbean, a bulletproof presidential suite in Switzerland and an amusement park in Japan. It became the video, aside from music videos, that was viewed by the most people on the platform within 24 hours.
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