After a blackout of over thirteen hours, TikTok is active again for U.S. users.
In 2024, a law was passed requiring ByteDance, the tech company that owns the app, to sell its business in the country or else ban access to its residents within a year. Upon the deadline, ByteDance chose the latter option, but Donald Trump has secured a 90-day extension to try to resolve this conflict that has dominated many international headlines. Amid the controversy, 26-year-old YouTuber MrBeast has emerged as a potential savior by offering to buy the app to save it and keep it active in the United States.
His full name is Jimmy Donaldson, born in 1998 in Wichita, Kansas. His first steps in the online world date back to 2012 when he decided to open a YouTube account to create his own content. Over time, he has become one of the most followed on TikTok.
Today, he has a total of 344 million subscribers on his channel, in addition to the 113 million on his TikTok profile, not counting his secondary accounts. These successful figures have placed him at the top of the Forbes Top Creators list in 2024. His videos focus on undertaking extreme challenges like helping 2,000 people walk again, exploring an underground city for seven days, or surviving for 100 days inside a nuclear bunker. Additionally, he proposes challenges where he offers large sums of money.
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Beyond his online work, Jimmy Donaldson has also expanded his professional experience into various non-internet-related businesses, such as the restaurant chain he created under the name MrBeast Burger. It is a project of home-delivered burgers (launched on November 19, 2020) available in both the United States and Europe. In the culinary sector, the well-known YouTuber also has his own brand of chocolates called Feastables.
Regarding his personal life, he shared on the first day of 2025 a photo of himself proposing to his girlfriend, Thea Booysen. Although she accepted the proposal, their celebration plans and the date for becoming "husband and wife" remain unknown.