I never bothered to ask and now i’m afraid of being outed as an old for asking.

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Alright, I’ll give you the only non-grumpy answer here apparently, from someone who actually knows him.

His name is Jimmy. He loves YouTube, and want to make the best videos possible.

He lived with his mom and brother in his childhood. No mention of a father. He played a little baseball, and besides that he really just wanted to make video content. The family was not rich.

His first brand deal he got, he received 10.000 dollars from a sponsor. He gave it all away to someone and filmed it, gaining another brand deal that then got better and better because he gained more viewers.

The concept today for almost all of his videos is “game show”. Which means you almost always have a chance to win money. Sometimes he also just gave it random on the street.

He also is a part of Team Trees and Save the Ocean, doing some environmental work in his videos.

Now, Jimmy aka MrBeast has a philanthropy channel, where he hired two individuals to go and give money away around the world to poor villages in 3rd world countries.

He also sells chocolate from sustainable cocoa farms, that is also gentle to the stomach (Jimmy has a stomach disease, don’t remember the name).

So yeah, that’s MrBeast. He uses all his time and money on videos, and he himself live in a little bunker close to the film studio. He owns almost nothing for himself, but he does own the biggest YouTube brand there is.

Hope it helped.

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Oh sweet summer child, how innocent. When someone is a multi-millionare/billionaire and they say they own nothing, just a quaint little bunker, they’re lying to you.

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Oh sweet summer child

Downvoted out of principle

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Please pick a simplified version of any book or article with Marx’s philosophies and beliefs. Read on what is his opinion on philanthropy. You don’t really have to be a leftist for that. In an egalitarian society, people are self-reliant. What philanthropist do is make people dependent on them.

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I don’t think I gave my opinion on any of the things in my description. He’s making philanthropist videos no matter if you like it or not.

I was just stating facts, because all the other comments about him where mostly wrong or only sentence like “he’s a YouTuber.”

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from someone who actually knows him

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Lol, not it person. But the other comments dosent even know who he is on YouTube.

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Honestly, no idea.

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A branch of the American healthcare system.

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Some youtuber who first gained fame counting to a million. Then he pivoted to posting videos of him doing large amounts of altruistic acts such as paying for people’s surgeries et al.

Beyond that I don’t know.

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Altruistic implies he was doing it out of the kindness of his heart and got nothing out of it, when in reality he was making poverty porn for profit and to further his own career.

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Ehh, it’s better than “the person who can stay in the circle the longest wins 1 million”

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How? How is directly and unashamedly exploiting poor people for views and profit (while promoting yourself as “self made” no less) better than whatever it is you’re referencing (presumably just another version of poor people being exploited for views and profit)??

Why do you feel the need to defend the indefensible?

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He’s also probably doing “altruistic acts” to defend himself against criticism.

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Just another rich child man begging for your attention.

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I’m curious as to why you say that as he literally used his first sponsorship to pay off his mom’s mortgage and seems to come from an average standard of living.

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That, if true, doesn’t invalidate that the guy is rich, immature, and makes a living from attracting people to pay him attention so he gets paid even more money. I said it because that’s what he is.

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I get your point now. I interpreted your comment as “he was born rich”. I also didn’t watch the exposé until after I wrote mine.

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