50 Fun Facts About MrBeast

What first name does MrBeast go by off camera?

Jimmy, short for James, has been at this since childhood: he says he was already uploading gaming videos at 11, two years before he opened the channel that made him famous.

MrBeast grew up in North Carolina, but in which state was he born?

Kansas: he was born in Wichita to parents on active military duty. The family moved so often in his early years that his mother blames it for his introversion.

In which North Carolina city was MrBeast primarily raised?

Greenville is still his base: he has built his production hubs there, and his company's president likens the plan to Tyler Perry's studio empire in Atlanta.

MrBeast says he declined an invitation to join which 2023 expedition?

The Titan submersible dive ended in a fatal implosion. Days later he revealed he had been invited and had said no, writing that it was 'kind of scary that I could have been on it'.

What was MrBeast's main YouTube channel first called?

MrBeast6000 is said to have got its number because plain 'Mr. Beast' was already taken; he opened the channel at 13.

What number did MrBeast count to in his January 2017 breakthrough video?

100,000 took so long that parts were sped up to fit the upload under a day. He says the idea grew from wondering if he could monetise a Naruto marathon; next he counted to 200,000.

What did MrBeast's mother do when he quit college to make videos?

Made him move out: he had enrolled to please her and says he never attended a class. There were no hard feelings, and she later left her own job to work for his company.

Which MrBeast video series built his early audience between 2015 and 2018?

Worst Intros on YouTube lifted him to about 30,000 subscribers by mid-2016. In 2015 he had told his future self 'I hope you have at least 100k subs'; by May 2017 he had a million.

Which chronic illness was MrBeast diagnosed with as a teenager?

Crohn's disease forced him to give up sports in his teens, a change his mother credits with turning him towards YouTube.

Which sport did MrBeast play growing up, before illness made him give up sports?

Baseball, where he played in the outfield, ended for him in his second year of high school. Stuck indoors, his mother says, he threw himself into YouTube instead.

Who got the whole $10,000 fee from MrBeast's first brand deal?

A homeless man got the cheque: rather than keep his first sponsor's money, MrBeast gave it all away on camera, and the response set the template for every giveaway since.

Which YouTuber did MrBeast buy billboards and ads to support in the 2018 subscriber race?

PewDiePie got every billboard in MrBeast's home town, and at the Super Bowl a row of his friends sat in shirts that together spelled out 'Sub 2 PewDiePie'.

Which video game sponsored MrBeast's real-life battle royale in Los Angeles in 2019?

Apex Legends put up the $200,000 in prize money just two weeks after the idea first came up in a brainstorm, and the battle was fought at a paintball and airsoft park.

Which esports player won MrBeast's $250,000 rock, paper, scissors tournament in 2020?

Nadeshot beat filmmaker Casey Neistat in the final of the charity event, which peaked at 662,000 live viewers, at the time the most ever for a YouTube live Original.

Which sisters won MrBeast's $300,000 influencer trivia tournament in October 2020?

Charli and Dixie D'Amelio answered alongside their parents, which some viewers called unfair. MrBeast replied that the teams had been his decision: 'if you were to get mad at anyone, get mad at me.'

Which Netflix show did MrBeast recreate in a November 2021 video?

Squid Game's sets were rebuilt for 456 real contestants, but the finale was changed: the $456,000 prize was decided by a round of musical chairs, not the title game.

Forbes said MrBeast's $54 million in 2021 out-earned which K-pop group on its last Celebrity 100?

BTS, Billie Eilish and Kim Kardashian all sat below his total, the most Forbes had ever recorded for a YouTuber; it put the jump down to his videos' views doubling to 10 billion in a year.

MrBeast was announced in 2026 as a guest on which business reality show?

Shark Tank named him a guest shark for its 18th season, and not alone: the chief executive of his own company, Beast Industries, was announced for the panel alongside him.

Which channel did MrBeast overtake in June 2024 to become the most subscribed on YouTube?

T-Series, a Bollywood music label, had led for years. The news set off a rush of its own: MrBeast gained two million more subscribers in a day, a number that had recently taken the label a month.

Which competitive eater appeared in MrBeast's special '50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000'?

Joey Chestnut, the hot-dog eating champion, was there to judge rather than eat: he scored the creators' cooking with Miranda Cosgrove and IShowSpeed. Animator JaidenAnimations won the million.

Which footballer did MrBeast's contestants try to beat for $1,000,000 in a 2025 video with Tom Brady?

Cristiano Ronaldo shared the video with Tom Brady and golfer Bryson DeChambeau. It passed 240 million views within weeks, and a follow-up built around Neymar soon followed.

As of 2025, MrBeast's most-watched upload asks whether you would fly to Paris for what?

A baguette: in the 2022 Short a stranger takes up his offer and flies to Paris to fetch the bread, and it became his first upload to pass a billion views.

What does MrBeast say he does with most of his video earnings?

Reinvests it: brand deals and ad money from one hit pay for a bigger giveaway in the next, a loop The Verge called never-ending.

Which country accused MrBeast in 2025 of exploiting its ancient Maya ruins for commercial gain?

Mexico had granted a filming permit, but officials said it did not cover advertising his snack brand, and that a scene of him descending into a pyramid from a helicopter had been edited.

Which Brooklyn art collective co-created the Finger on the App contest with MrBeast in 2020?

MSCHF built the game to crown a single winner, but after more than 70 hours four players still had a finger on their screens, so MrBeast called it off and paid each of them $20,000.

MrBeast Burger launched in 2020 as what kind of business?

A virtual delivery-only brand: existing restaurant kitchens cooked the burgers, and it spread to about 2,000 of them before he said he could no longer guarantee the quality and wanted to move on.

Where did the first MrBeast Burger restaurant open in September 2022?

American Dream Mall, New Jersey, drew an estimated 10,000 people on opening day, some of whom had queued in the mall overnight.

What product did MrBeast's brand Feastables launch with in January 2022?

Chocolate bars: the company says it sold more than a million of them in the first 72 hours, helped by a Willy Wonka-style sweepstakes offering the chance to win a factory.

Which celebrity chef judged a dessert contest in a 2022 MrBeast video?

Gordon Ramsay scored the finalists' desserts out of 20 on a replica of Willy Wonka's factory, spitting some of them out; the winner, with 14, was handed the 'deed' to the building.

Which two creators co-founded the Lunchly snack kits with MrBeast in 2024?

KSI and Logan Paul's Prime drink goes in every box. The trio pitched the kits as a healthier rival to Lunchables, but Consumer Reports tested them in 2025 and judged them no healthier.

Which YouTuber co-founded Team Trees with MrBeast in 2019?

Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer, marked the launch by planting trees with drones for his own channel, and he has partnered with MrBeast on two more fundraisers since.

Which organization receives the Team Trees donations?

Arbor Day Foundation promised one tree per dollar. More than $4 million arrived within 24 hours of the launch, and the $20 million target was passed before the year was out.

A fan's Reddit post suggested MrBeast plant 20,000,000 trees to celebrate what?

A subscriber milestone: 20 million trees for 20 million subscribers. The suggestion snowballed into memes, and by the time he launched the campaign months later he had several million more.

Which CEO made the single largest Team Trees pledge, at 1,000,001 trees?

Tobias Lütke, the Shopify chief, pledged his trees 'for the Lorax' shortly after Elon Musk gave a round million 'for Treebeard', topping him by exactly one.

How many pounds of marine debris did Team Seas pledge to remove?

30,000,000 pounds, one for every dollar donated, was the promise. The campaign's own site now celebrates 34 million pounds removed, the work shared by Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup.

Which charity benefited from the 2025 Team Water campaign?

WaterAid was brought in because, as MrBeast's chief executive put it, creators are better at building awareness than at building wells. Some of the money went to US projects, including one in Jackson, Mississippi.

Beast Philanthropy began in 2020 by putting its revenue into which kind of charity operation?

A food bank: the channel's ad and merchandise money went to a warehouse running mobile food deliveries across eastern North Carolina, which reported more than a million meals by the end of 2021.

On which streaming service did Beast Games premiere in December 2024?

Prime Video got what was then its most-watched unscripted show, with 50 million viewers, yet MrBeast says the deal lost him tens of millions of dollars: 'I'm an idiot.'

What grand prize did MrBeast's Beast Games advertise for season one?

$5,000,000 was the advertised prize, but it had doubled by the finale: winner Jeff Allen picked the right briefcase out of ten and left with $10 million.

How many players competed in MrBeast's Beast Games season one, after the YouTube tryout round?

1,000 players made the series itself. Twice that number had turned up for the tryout round, which was released separately on YouTube and cut the field in half.

Which Las Vegas venue hosted the opening round of Beast Games in July 2024?

Allegiant Stadium held the tryout round over five days in July 2024. Those who got through moved on to Toronto for the main competition, and the stadium footage went out on YouTube instead of in the show.

Which long-running reality show staged a crossover with MrBeast's Beast Games in season two?

Survivor lent its host as well as its name: Jeff Probst appears in the season, most of which was filmed back in North Carolina after the state updated its film incentives.

In which city did MrBeast open the temporary Beast Land theme park in 2025?

Riyadh booked him for its annual entertainment season, part of Saudi Arabia's drive to draw tourists; the pop-up park turned his challenge videos into more than 15 rides.

Which Streamy Award did MrBeast win four years running, from 2020 to 2023?

Creator of the Year was his four times in a row, though he skipped the 2023 ceremony; the year before the run began he had been nominated for it and lost.

Which magazine named MrBeast one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2023?

Time put him on its flagship list in 2023, in an entry written by a fellow YouTuber he had raised millions with, and named him again on its first list of top creators two years later.

Which mobile banking app gave MrBeast his first sponsorship with an ownership stake, in 2021?

Current gave him a stake in the company as well as a fee. The deal was struck by the marketing executive who, at a different firm, had arranged his very first brand deal four years earlier.

Which regular in MrBeast's videos is one of the four childhood friends he first hired?

Chandler Hallow has known him since boyhood and is one of the regulars he calls 'the boys'; appearing in the videos has given several of them big followings of their own.

MrBeast has a voice cameo in which 2024 animated sequel?

Kung Fu Panda 4 cast him as Panda Pig, one of the hopefuls trying out to be the next Dragon Warrior; a year earlier he had voiced a bystander in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.

Which bestselling author teamed up with MrBeast on a thriller novel for HarperCollins?

James Patterson's partnership with him set off a bidding war, with reported offers in eight figures. Their thriller, The Most Dangerous Games, came out in 2026, announced for release in 15 languages at once.

MrBeast's 2025 video 'I Bought the NFL' was actually promoting what?

YouTube's first free NFL livestream was a Chargers–Chiefs game played in São Paulo and shown worldwide at no charge; some viewers took his title literally and thought he had bought the league.