As any sixth grade boy can tell you, Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson isn’t exactly a subtle guy. In just a few short years, he’s gone from an unknown streamer to YouTube’s first ever billionaire, leveraging the promise of life-changing wealth to entice people into becoming test subjects for his Machiavellian productions.
It’s a winning — if highly controversial — formula. Donaldson’s latest stunt, however, managed to rattle even his most prepubescent fans.
Titled “Would You Risk Dying For $500,000?” Donaldson’s most recent video depicts a stuntman struggling through seven harebrained challenges, including a flaming obstacle course and a 50-ft free climb while chained to his buddy. Those went over well enough — it’s classic MrBeast, after all. But the opening challenge, showing Donaldson’s squi