Jimmy Donaldson, better known by his online alias MrBeast, is an outstanding content creator associated with YouTube. In the ten years, he has been on the platform, the man has become synonymous with success and fame. MrBeast has uploaded over 700 videos on his main channel, gaining billions of views! Let alone his various side channels that are highly successful in their own right.

Being one of the most prominent creators on the red platform, Jimmy has received some notable laurels. These range from the humble silver play button to the coveted diamond play button. Although he is yet to receive the red diamond play button, considering MrBeast’s rampant success, it’s only a matter of time before he gets one.

With that kind of pedigree attached to the name, fans have often wondered where did the alias ‘MrBeast’ come from? And who better to answer that question than Jimmy himself?

How did MrBeast get his famous name?

Jimmy Donaldson gave his fans a peek into his life as a documentary on CuriosityStream. Titled ‘Beyond the Spotlight’, the documentary showed a light on many important questions that riddled the minds of his fans. When did he decide to become a YouTuber? Why did he leave a potential career in baseball? And of course, where did he get his famous name from?

In the documentary, Donaldson elaborates on his early life. He states he was a very shy kid who found it difficult to talk to people. Since he had little social interaction, Jimmy instead spent a lot of time watching YouTube. It was their mutual love for the red platform that brought him and childhood friend Chris Tyson together.

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And it was to Chris that Jimmy revealed his intentions of making his very own YouTube channel. It is here that fans finally get an answer to the mystery that is ‘MrBeast’. In his own words:

“When you create an account on Xbox, they have this thing where it just gives you a random gamer tag. And I was just like ‘MrBeast’, this sounds cool!”

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With that, the mystery of Jimmy’s internet alias is solved. It resulted from Microsoft’s glorious algorithm working its magic. While some may consider that anticlimactic, it is important to remember that Jimmy has since justified that name. Be it by becoming the highest-earning YouTuber of 2021 or by stacking multiple diamond play buttons.

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