MrBeast (real name James Stephen Donaldson), the world's most popular YouTube blogger, has become the first content creator on the platform to surpass 500 million subscribers. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
The historic milestone was reached during a live stream with his fans. The subscriber count is confirmed by YouTube statistics.
MrBeast's channel was registered on February 20, 2012. The following day, Donaldson published his first video. Initially, he made videos about video games, including Minecraft, Pokemon Online, and Call of Duty, but later completely changed his content format.
MrBeast gained worldwide fame through large-scale challenges, expensive experiments, reality shows, and charitable acts. One of his most popular videos is "Squid Game in Real Life for $456,000," which has garnered nearly a billion views.
His first major success came in 2017 after publishing a video in which he counted to 10,000 without stopping. The video, lasting over three hours, gained more than 68 million views and went viral.
Today, MrBeast is considered one of YouTube's main innovators and a pioneer of the high-budget video project genre. In his videos, he regularly gives away large sums of money, cars, houses, and other valuable prizes.
James Donaldson was born on May 7, 1998, in the U.S. state of Kansas. He created his YouTube channel at age 13 and turned it into the largest personal account on the platform a few years later.