MrBeast Brags About the Human Lives He Has Suspended in Bizarre "Simulations"

To make great content requires great sacrifice. It just doesn't have to be your sacrifice. At least, that's the essence of Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson's success as a YouTube creator. In just 13 short years, the now-26 year old content creator has amassed a virtual empire by filming brash "Squid Game"-style videos and poppy viral stunts, which he trades to platforms like YouTube and TikTok in exchange for huge sums of ad revenue, sponsorships, and merchandise sales. Donaldson's videos are an acquired taste. Primarily marketed toward children and young teens, the MrBeast brand thrives off costly productions that put everyday people through the Stanford Prison Experiment-esque challenges in exchange for huge gobs of cash. Examples include "Ages 1-100 Fights For $500,000," where 100 people of different ages compete in tiny cubes to be the last man standing, and "I Helped 2,000 People Walk Again," where Donaldson pays the prosthetic fittings of 2,000 people who couldn't otherwise afford the ... Read full article.