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This YouTuber turned the Game Upside Down — And Gained 42 Million Subscribers in the Process
The most interesting character YouTube’s community has ever seen
From shouting out the Jake Paulers, the Logang Paulers, and commanding his army of subscribers to go and subscribe to PewDiePie, Mr. Beast (aka Jimmy Donaldson) is a name known to many.
Mr. Beast’s videos span across hardcore gaming, counting to 300,000, giving random people thousands of dollars, giving a foodbank $100,000 in food, and creating tournaments with millions of dollars in prizes for his friends and subscribers to win.
If giving one of his friends an $800,000 island isn’t enough, each of his videos centers around the idea of attempting to top the previous.
It would be safe to say that Mr. Beast is unlike any content creator before him. Some have created impressive strides, but no content creator has pulled ahead with the accelerating force that he has. He has turned the game inward, and, by doing so, he has bypassed the traditional hoops of influencer growth.
Here are four things that have set him apart from everyone else.
