‘YouTube's Biggest Philanthropist’ Has a History of Homophobic Comments
MrBeast has gone viral for giving away hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he has previously used slurs and made offensive jokes.
by Taylor Lorenz
May 24, 2018
3 minutes
Over the past year, Jimmy, a 20-year-old YouTuber known as “MrBeast” who chooses not to reveal his last name in his videos, has gone repeatedly viral for giving away massive amounts of cash. Known to many in the community as “YouTube’s biggest philanthropist,” to date, he has donated more than $500,000 to people including an Uber driver, waitress, random people in parking lots, Twitch streamers, and homeless people in his North Carolina neighborhood—all of which has been captured on his vlog.
His family-friendly stunts have garnered an audience of nearly and his channel.
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