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Andy Meek
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Your notion of the typical YouTuber might be anything from a Twitch streamer sharing clips of game streams to beauty vloggers, influencers and all manner of other loud, brash, in-your-face personalities -- with the kind of persona focused on keeping people entertained and amassing millions of followers. And then there's Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast. An altogether different sort of YouTube presence who's known not so much for his personality or his antics, as ... his philanthropy? That's right, this guy loves to give away stuff, and yes, on one level the giveaways work very much as attention-getting stunts. But take his latest video, which you can watch above.
MrBeast posted it over the weekend, and by mid-day Monday it had already racked up almost 14 million views on YouTube. The gist: He gives away his credit card to random people. Tells them they can buy whatever they want, they just have to stay under the card limit or they have to give everything back (Surprise, though: The card has no limit). What follows is an interesting social experiment that unfolds in real-time. And the video features nothing but giving random, ordinary people credit to buy whatever they want to make them happy.
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A YouTuber gives his credit card to random people, and the things they buy will surprise you originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 22:12:31 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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