James Stephen Donaldson, known as Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast, hosted the MrBeast Olympics Challenge, his version of extreme Olympics. After revealing that one participant from each nation was flown to the US for MrBeast’s version of the Olympics, Jimmy clarified that the participants would participate in five different events: fencing, archery, track, gymnastics and a penalty kick competition.
For the third consecutive video, MrBeast broke the record for the most YouTube views in 24 hours. The video garnered more than 40 million views.
In the first round of MrBeast’s Extreme Olympics, people had to reach a specific point within the specified time in order to finish the race. A total of 98 countries were eliminated in the first round. The second round had a gymnastic challenge that took many people off-guard. A total of 50 more countries got eliminated in this round
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In the final round, Slovenia and Libya had the final face-off. The contestant from Libya saved the goal attempt from the contestant from Slovenia. The Libyan contestant then scored a goal to become the MrBeast’s Olympics Winner and was awarded the $250,000 (over RS 2 crore) gold medal.
In November 2021, MrBeast took social media by storm when he adapted the Korean Netflix series Squid Games to host the competition in real life. The ‘$456,000 Squid Game In Real Life’ video went viral and garnered almost half a billion views on YouTube.
As of 2023, MrBeast is the highest paid YouTuber. The world’s top-earning creator is already worth $500 million, as per a Forbes report in November 2022. MrBeast's income mainly comes from YouTube ad revenue, sponsorships and massive viewership from his ever-expanding subscriber base on YouTube of 178 million subscribers.
MrBeast grew up in Greenville, North Carolina, and he began posting videos on YouTube in early 2012 at the age of 13, under the handle MrBeast6000, which has now been renamed to simply 'MrBeast'.
In a recent episode of the 'Full Send Podcast' on YouTube, MrBeast revealed that India is his second biggest fanbase in the world, after the US.
After MrBeast, Jake Paul is the second highest paid YouTuber with earnings of $45 million followed by Markiplier who earned $38 million in 2021, as per Forbes.