YouTube and TikTok start MrBeast is looking to buy TikTok as part of a group of investors, as a 75-day time limit ticks down for the social media company to find a non-Chinese owner or risk being permanently banned.
Jimmy Donaldson, better known online as MrBeast, has a history of documenting his charity work through his videos.
The social media star's Beast Games is airing Amazon Prime Video. The reality show, inspired by the Netflix hit Squid Game, sees contestants battling it out for a grand prize of $5 million. Last week, Variety reported that the show had surpassed 50 million unique viewers in 25 days.
After Elon Musk and Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary, YouTuber MrBeast has also joined the bid to buy TikTok in the US.According to CNN, after the new US President Donald Trump granted the video-sharing social media platform an extension of
SteveWillDoIt is willing to donate $1M to MrBeast’s next big charity video, but only if he can help him get unbanned from YouTube.
MrBeast shut down speculation that he has plans to launch a Memecoin but nonetheless, was still slammed for being “greedy.”
The platform is in need of saving in the United States, where approximately 170 million people have TikTok accounts. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that will ban the platform on Jan. 19 unless TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance divests its U.S. operations.
The high-profile names who could potentially buy TikTok following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law banning the platform in the US.
The show dubbed ‘Beast Games’ premiered on Amazon’s OTT platform on December 19, 2024. It announced the largest single prize ever in the history of a television show that pits 1000 contestants in a series of challenges. Airing in 240 countries, including India, the non-scripted show clocked 50 million viewers in the first five episodes.
A 24-year-old woman, Greeshma, has been sentenced to death for the murder of her lover, Sharon Raj, in Kerala. Greeshma was in a relationship with Sharon but was forced into an arranged marriage. She allegedly tried to poison Sharon multiple times before succeeding. Her uncle was also sentenced to three years in jail for helping her.
MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson ... Donaldson echoed that explanation in a Jan. 2 X post made in response to a similar claim, saying the military was “going to help us with some ...
The idea of MrBeast buying TikTok to prevent its impending ban is something that could potentially reshape the digital landscape, especially as Gen Z and Gen Alpha scramble for someone to “save” the platform. On X, MrBeast made the following tweet and of course, it went instantly viral!