JImmyjimmy Donaldson, känd som MrBeast, har det mest populära YouTube-kontot med mer än 450 miljoner prenumeranter, vilket är drygt 1 av 16 personer världen över. Hans framgång med högproducerade, kraftfulla stuntvideor har gjort honom till en ambitiös förebild för oberoende innehållsskapare överallt. Tack vare Internet har löftet om att grindvakter inte längre kommer att stå i vägen för viral berömmelse och den rikedom som följer med det blivit verklighet.

JimmyJimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has the most popular YouTube account with over 450 million subscribers, or a little over 1 in 16 people in the world. His success with high-production, high-output stunt videos have made him the aspirational model for independent content creators everywhere: the actualization of the promise that, thanks to the internet, gatekeepers no longer stand in the way of viral fame and the riches that supposedly come with it. Some might say that the extraordinarily famous content creators at the top represent the exception that proves the rule, but even Donaldson, no matter how agape his algorithm-pandering maw, can’t actually make money from YouTube.

JimmyJimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has the most popular YouTube account with over 450 million subscribers, or a little over 1 in 16 people in the world. His success with high-production, high-output stunt videos have made him the aspirational model for independent content creators everywhere: the actualization of the promise that, thanks to the internet, gatekeepers no longer stand in the way of viral fame and the riches that supposedly come with it.

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