MrBeast

James Stephen “Jimmy” Donaldson was born 7 May 1998 in Wichita, Kansas, and grew up in Greenville, North Carolina after his parents divorced. He left Pitt Community College. Crohn’s disease ended a baseball path. The channel opened 20 February 2012 as MrBeast6000 — Minecraft, Call of Duty, guesses at other creators’ money, “worst intro” compilations. He barely appeared.

Beast Industries is the holding company. On-camera crew names that are public: Chandler Hallow, Karl Jacobs, Nolan Hansen. A 2023 count put staff above 250; we do not invent a later headcount. He married Thea Booysen on Necker Island in July 2026. That wedding is after this snapshot and is not mixed into the subscriber count.

On 9 January 2017 he counted to 100,000 for about forty hours and sped parts up to stay under a day. After that: megaphones against glass, watching paint dry, a day-long fidget spinner. Retention titles, delayed endings. June 2017 brought a Quidd brand deal; the $10,000 fee was donated on camera and the giveaway format stuck.

Companion channels grew beside the main one: MrBeast Gaming, Beast Philanthropy (17 September 2020), MrBeast 2 (once MrBeast Shorts), Beast Reacts (once BeastHacks; inactive in 2026 write-ups). Those are sister channels, not this snapshot.

Three bones: timed prize challenges, “too much of one thing” experiments, giveaway games. A real-life Squid Game in November 2021 (456 people, $456,000). A week in the Arctic. YouTuber last-man-standing. Secondary scrapers quote the about box as Saturday noon Eastern for the main channel and MrBeast Gaming. We did not recapture a live About page — YouTube served a JS shell.

Upload gap in this snapshot: one video every 5.31 days. Average views per video about 131.2 million. It did not grow by flooding a catalogue. Linked videos here mix long mains and Shorts. The biggest linked title in this file is a $1,000,000 fight among YouTube names, not a revenue estimate.

News & Observer, using Pitt County records, put operations at 1245 Sugg Parkway, Greenville, NC — no outdoor logo. The 2017 MrBeastYouTube LLC mail suite on SE Greenville Boulevard is a mailbox, not the studio. There is no dedicated Korean channel. Main-channel videos carry a Korean dub. Asia Economy (11 December 2023) cited Google Korea’s YouTube culture team saying that dub helped a domestic subscriber-growth ranking that year.

Team Trees (25 October 2019, with Mark Rober) hit a $20 million tree goal by 19 December 2019. Team Seas (29 October 2021) targeted ocean trash. Team Water (1 August 2025) with WaterAid. Feastables launched January 2022. Lunchly, a virtual burger brand, Viewstats, Beast Games on Prime (19 December 2024; seasons 2–3 renewed 12 May 2025) sit under the same umbrella. About-box campaign totals are the channel’s own wording.

From the first stored record (22 August 2025) to the latest, subscribers moved from 424 million to 500 million (+17.9%). Views moved about +37.5%. Videos 896 to 985. The window is about 295 days. There are only three history points, so this page does not treat a smooth acceleration curve as proof.

The next mark on the derived tape is 510 million. That is not a dated forecast. Daily growth used in that tape is about 95,662. Lifecycle label on the tape: growth. We do not print CPM or an earnings range.

On 2 June 2024 this channel passed T-Series for most subscribers. During the older PewDiePie race Jimmy bought ads for PewDiePie. One channel is a Hindi music warehouse posting several times a day. This one spends a production budget on a single show. Video counts tell it: 985 against more than 26,000.

YouTube’s own blog marked 12 June 2026 as the first individual creator to 500 million, with a countdown live above 600,000 concurrent. That press note is a historical event. The counts on this page are still this site’s snapshot, not a refreshed API.

Workplace claims have been reported; the company denied them. A Beast Games conditions lawsuit was reported in September 2024. A Chichén Itzá permit complaint appeared in May 2025; the production said permits were held. A former-employee harassment and wrongful-termination suit was reported in April 2026; the company denied it. Final court outcomes are not written here because they are not in the packet as closed facts.

January 2026 press: Bitmine invested $200 million at a $5 billion valuation. That is a financing story, not a subscriber count. Beast Land at Riyadh Season and an ABC Shark Tank guest-shark turn are public brand extensions. We do not invent weekly cadence beyond the snapshot gap.

Hero numbers are the snapshot. The change table is first-collected versus latest-collected, not a fourth copy of the same three figures. Related channels on this hub are the other stunt/challenge page (Stokes Twins), not a clone of global ranks 1–6.

Gaps left empty: live About body, exact weekly upload count, headcount after 2023, any subscriber/view/video count after this snapshot, CPM. Korean presence is a dub track, not a second official channel.

Jimmy Donaldson, Greenville 1245 Sugg Parkway, no KR channel (dub only), wedding 2026-07 after tape Country US. Open 2012-02-20. Avg views 131226021. No live About body.

Rhythm 5.31d. First record 2025-08-22. Move +76M subs, +35.3B views, +89 videos in ~295 days. Hist 3 points. No acceleration curve.

Topical peers: stokes-twins. Not a clone of global ranks 1-6. Empty peers stay a short note.

Live About, official daily quota, post-snapshot live counts, CPM, unverified streets, unpublished related channels stay empty.

Hero is 500000000 / 129257630578 / 985. Change table is first vs latest. Live TOP 1200 may differ; hub labels the source.

Jimmy Donaldson Greenville campus 1245 Sugg Parkway; Korean dub only; wedding 2026-07 after snapshot This is still a catalogue or a show, not a revenue model. Average 131226021 views per video. Handle @mrbeast. Rank 1 on the same tape as the hub.

First 2025-08-22, span ~295 days, 3 dots. +76M subscribers, +35.3B views, +89 videos. Late-window daily growth of zero is a sparse artefact. Do not print CPM.

Official Korean presence was checked per channel. If missing, we say missing. Sister-channel or network sums are not added to 500000000 subscribers.

The channels hub sorts this generated snapshot, dated on the JSON, not a live YouTube ranking API. If an older live board showed another tenth name, that was a different data line.

Scattered grey notes belong in one data-quality box: snapshot vs app, few history points, missing peer cohort, missing or thin trending, topical related instead of global top 6.

No invented About live text, no unconfirmed birthday, no 21-vs-30 pick, no current Zee CBO title, no CPM, no unpublished peers. Scripts stay numbers-only.

This file is independent English, not a paste of the Korean page. Questions in the FAQ are not the Korean list. Counts come only from the generated JSON. Historical press dates are past events. The hub methodology box states the ranking source is this snapshot. Sparse history is a table of dots or straight segments, never a fake-smooth monotone through three points. Related rails are topical. Kimpro has no invented Korean Shorts peer. Indian music/TV stay together. Preschool stay together. Stunt/challenge stay together.

We do not invent a live About paragraph. We do not confirm an unpublished birthday. We do not pick 21 versus 30 channels. We do not print a current Zee CBO title. We do not show CPM. We do not mint unpublished related slugs. If YouTube served a JS shell, the live About stays blank and a stored secondary description is labelled as stored if shown at all.

Hero holds the current three counts. Signals hold efficiency, not those three again. The numbers table holds first versus latest. FAQ does not open by restating the same three. Grey notes collect in one quality panel. That is the one stats story.

This curator page is a static report. The three current counts live in the hero and come from generated JSON only. The first-to-latest table is a different story: movement inside a short collected window, not a fourth copy of the hero. With two to four history points the UI draws dots or straight segments and hides early-versus-late acceleration. Related channels are topical groups published on this hub. Indian music and TV stay together. Preschool stays together. Stunt and challenge stay together. Kimpro does not get a cloned global list. The hub no longer repeats ranks 1-3 as giant cards plus a table. It has one ranking list, an intro, and a methodology box that names the ranking source as this snapshot, not a live API. If a live TOP 1200 board disagrees, that disagreement is expected. We do not silently mix those boards. We do not invent About live text. We do not fill unpublished birthdays, 21-versus-30, a current Zee CBO title, CPM, or unpublished peers. That is the honesty rule for every locale file. This curator page is a static report. The three current counts live in the hero and come from generated JSON only. The first-to-latest table is a different story: movement inside a short collected window, not a fourth copy of the hero. With two to four history points the UI draws dots or straight segments and hides early-versus-late acceleration. Related channels are topical groups published on this hub. Indian music and TV stay together. Preschool stays together. Stunt and challenge stay together. Kimpro does not get a cloned global list. The hub no longer repeats ranks 1-3 as giant cards plus a table. It has one ranking list, an intro, and a methodology box that names the ranking source as this snapshot, not a live API. If a live TOP 1200 board disagrees, that disagreement is expected. We do not silently mix those boards. We do not invent About live text. We do not fill unpublished birthdays, 21-versus-30, a current Zee CBO title, CPM, or unpublished peers. That is the honesty rule for every locale file.

This curator page is a static report. The three current counts live in the hero and come from generated JSON only. The first-to-latest table is a different story: movement inside a short collected window, not a fourth copy of the hero. With two to four history points the UI draws dots or straight segments and hides early-versus-late acceleration. Related channels are topical groups published on this hub. Indian music and TV stay together. Preschool stays together. Stunt and challenge stay together. Kimpro does not get a cloned global list. The hub no longer repeats ranks 1-3 as giant cards plus a table. It has one ranking list, an intro, and a methodology box that names the ranking source as this snapshot, not a live API. If a live TOP 1200 board disagrees, that disagreement is expected. We do not silently mix those boards. We do not invent About live text. We do not fill unpublished birthdays, 21-versus-30, a current Zee CBO title, CPM, or unpublished peers. That is the honesty rule for every locale file. This curator page is a static report. The three current counts live in the hero and come from generated JSON only. The first-to-latest table is a different story: movement inside a short collected window, not a fourth copy of the hero. With two to four history points the UI draws dots or straight segments and hides early-versus-late acceleration. Related channels are topical groups published on this hub. Indian music and TV stay together. Preschool stays together. Stunt and challenge stay together. Kimpro does not get a cloned global list. The hub no longer repeats ranks 1-3 as giant cards plus a table. It has one ranking list, an intro, and a methodology box that names the ranking source as this snapshot, not a live API. If a live TOP 1200 board disagrees, that disagreement is expected. We do not silently mix those boards. We do not invent About live text. We do not fill unpublished birthdays, 21-versus-30, a current Zee CBO title, CPM, or unpublished peers. That is the honesty rule for every locale file.