The Highest-Paid YouTube Stars Of 2020
- Date: 18-Dec-2020
- Source: Forbes
- Sector:Economy
- Country:Middle East
The Highest-Paid YouTube Stars Of 2020
A nine-year-old is still number one, but the runner-up is a newcomer who came armed with a forklift, an exploding Toyota and the most expensive firecracker ever made. And he's just getting started.
The Fourth of July this past summer was a muted occasion across most of the country. But not on YouTube, where Jimmy Donaldson, the digital celebrity known as MrBeast, released a special holiday episode containing a $600,000 fireworks show. The show's highlights included lighting 100 or so rockets bound to a mannequin, blowing up a Toyota and detonating the world's most-expensive firework, a 400-pound, $160,000 device moveable only via forklift. The aerial display even forced MrBeast and his crew to consult the FAA, lest it interfere with overhead air traffic.
The 11-minute episode has since been viewed nearly 60 million times, and it's pretty representative of what has shot Donaldson to No. 2 on our annual list of the Top-Earning YouTubers. Funny stunts have been a YouTube mainstay for years. But none have really been on the same scale as Donaldson's or filmed with such top-notch production quality. He's also become famous for videos of giving away massive amounts of money, like the moment this spring when he dispensed
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