US stars going from bedrooms to boardrooms
MRBEAST
(Stats for his six combined Youtube channels)
Joined Youtube February 2012, aged 13 110 million subscribers 4 billion views HE once adopted every dog in a shelter, opened the world’s first free restaurant then hen paid people to eat there ere and gave a homeless person a house. Mrbeast has more re than four billion views from his six Youtube channels to date and a combined 110 million subscribers.
Mrbeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, on, was 13 when he posted his first video ideo on Youtube in February uary 2012. 2012 Today the 23-year old from North Carolina is one of the platform’s most-viewed and highest-paid creators.
From around 2016, he cottoned on that viewers loved marathon stunts, such as spinning a fidget spinner for 24 hours straight.
By November 2017, he had one million subscribers and his empire, which includes high school mates Chris, Chandler, Garrett and Jake, grew. A year later he had given his first $1 million to charity and changed tack to become one of Youtube’s biggest philanthropists.
His Beast Philanthropy channel is paving the way for Youtube to be considered a vehicle for good. He even enlisted donations from Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to help him plant 20 million trees. He makes his millions through brand deals and ventures such as Mrbeast Burgers.
COLLEEN BALLINGER
Stats for her three combined Youtube channels
Joined Youtube July 2006, aged 19
9 million subscribers
6 billion views
ASK a kid who Colleen Ballinger is, they may respond with “you mean Miranda Sings?” That’s because Ballinger’s comedic alter ego — the excessive lipstick wearing, often inappropriate and offensive tonedeaf wannabe star, Miranda Sings — launched Ballinger to international fame when she posted a Youtube video of her nasally, out-of-tune cover of Aretha Franklin’s Respect, in 2008.
Since then, Ballinger, B a trained musical m theatre theatr performer, singer sing and actor, has ha turned Miranda M Sings into an empire which has spawned two books, a two-season Netflix series called Haters Back Off, a lipstick line and a one-woman show. She has three Youtube channels — Miranda Sings attracting the most views from fans who call themselves Mirfandas — and you’ll often find her collaborating with fellow Youtube sensation Jojo Siwa of Dance Moms fame and her pal, singer Ariana Grande.
CHARLI D’AMELIO
Joined Youtube November 2015, aged 11
57 million subscribers
247 million views
IF these Youtube stats aren’t as impressive as you’d expect, that’s because this Connecticut teen is a baby of the Tiktok revolution where in just two years she has amassed more than 120 million followers and 9.6 billion likes. And she did it simply by posting short choreographed dances in her (often untidy) bedroom.
Last year the high school student became the most popular creator on Tiktok. And today, she has a clothing line, Social Tourist, with her sister Dixie, and with mum Heidi and dad Marc has signed on to have a reality crew follow them around for a series called The D’amelio Show on Hulu.
Still, the reason for her fame eludes her, the bio on her Tiktok account reading: “Don’t worry, I don’t get the hype either.”