MrBeast, one of the most popular content creators and influencers in the world, recently sat down for a lengthy interview and talked about how his life has changed as a result of his fame and influence. In the interview, he claims to have less than a million dollars in his bank account and says life is âeasierâ when you wake up in your own bed and work 15 hours.
Jimmy Donaldson, better known online as MrBeast, has the most subscribed-to channel on YouTube and has become famous for videos that often feature him giving away lots of money or helping people in different parts of the world. And while he might have done a lot of good, his nice guy empire has started to collapse a bitand not all of his charity work is helpful.
In a new interview published on the YouTube channel Diary of a CEO, MrBeast responded to his many critics and haters: âThe more good you do, the more people think you are secretly evil.â MrBeast further explained that he has received over 5,000 comments and messages telling him to kill himself.
MrBeast reveals health issues & that heâs a workaholic
âIf my mental health was a priority, I wouldnât be as successful as I am,â said MrBeast. Getting big-picture about the human condition, he added, âWe were not meant to receive this kind of feedback from basically anyone, anywhere in the world.â
Elsewhere in the conversation, MrBeast claimed his job was âkillingâ him because he doesnât ever stop working. âI work every hour my eyes are awake,â said the creator.
âThe average person does not want to live this lifeâŚin my head just working all the time? And they would probably just ask themselves, why am I working all the time? I donât do literally anything else.â
Making it harder for him to work, beyond the human need to sleep, is the fact that at age 15, MrBeast was diagnosed with Crohnâs Disease, he says.
âI just get sick all the time, like random rashes and things like that,â said the creator. âSo itâs pretty, pretty brutal, to be honest, and then it randomly clears up sometimes and just makes you very sick, very tired. It hurts like crazy, because it gets very inflamed, and it feels like someoneâs stabbing me in the gut with like a knife constantly.â
MrBeast talks money, BeastGames, and being broke
Still, despite the pain, mental health problems, and death threats, all this work has made MrBeast a lot of money, right? Right? Well, probably, but the star creator claims that he has âless than a millionâ in his bank account. Which, yeah, thatâs less than I expected, though there are some really big numbers between 1 and 999,999. But while itâs clear that MrBeast has money and a lot of it, if you ask him about it, it seems like he doesnât like being rich.
âIt was like so much easier when…you donât travel constantly,â said MrBeast. âLife is so easy when you just wake up in your own bed and work 15 hours compared with all this fucking bullshit where Iâm like, âI donât know the time zone Iâm in, I donât know what place on itâ…some days Iâm going to 10am, other days Iâm going to 5pm.â
Iâm not sure life is easier when you are poor. It really just sounds like maybe MrBeast needs to take a vacation and travel a bit less.
Speaking of money, the famous YouTuber says he lost âtens of millions of dollarsâ producing his reality game show with Amazon. Yet, he has âno regretsâ about doing it, adding: âI canât let the YouTube community downâif I fail it is over, or no streaming platforms will ever touch a creator again.â
Finally, I leave you with a statistic that seems wild and hard to believe, however also totally within the realm of possibility. MrBeast claims, based on data, that his videos sometimes reach âthree percent of humansâ currently alive.
Correction: 3/1/2025, 12:50 p.m. ET: A prior version of this article incorrectly quoted MrBeast as saying âeasier when youâre brokeâ when speaking about the challenges of his current lifestyle. The misquote came from a transcript provided by PR for the Diary of a CEO podcast ahead of the episodeâs airing. MrBeast has since clarified his statement in a post on X/Twitter, and weâve updated the quote and the articleâs headline accordingly.
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