MrBeast, in any other case often called Jimmy Donaldson, gave away $25 million in prize cash on his Prime Video competitors collection Beast Video games, together with a $10M prize to the winner Jeffrey Randall Allen.
He could possibly be set at hand out much more as he teased that “one other 10 seasons might occur.”
The present noticed 1,000 contestants compete in a collection of bodily, psychological and social challenges to win a grand prize, which initially was set as $5M. It premiered on Amazon’s streaming service in December and ran via February.
The streamer is casting for Season 2, although it hasn’t been formally handed a renewal; there’s discuss of a two-season order. Donaldson was coy when requested concerning the return throughout a panel for Deadline’s Contenders Tv: Documentary, Unscripted & Selection occasion.
“[Sean] Klitzner is form of my boss on this regard, and he advised me I wasn’t allowed to talk about that topic throughout this interview,” he mentioned.
Fellow panelist Klitzner, one of many present’s co-creators and govt producers, additionally swerved the query however added there’s an “limitless quantity of fine concepts.” “If there’s a good suggestion in entrance of us, and there’s a YouTube video that wants it, we’re going to movie it for the YouTube video,” he mentioned. “One other good thought is true across the nook.”
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Donaldson agrees. “I’m on Yr 5 of individuals telling me, ‘Aren’t you going to expire of concepts? Your YouTube channel is ultimately going to get stale.’ However in case you’re continuously innovating, adapting and really making an attempt to push the boundaries, there are many methods you possibly can [do it],” he added.
However why did a person with greater than 380M subscribers on YouTube – making him the world’s greatest creator on that platform – and greater than 115M followers on TikTok wish to transfer into extra conventional tv?
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“In truth, while you make movies on YouTube, they’re normally not episodic,” he mentioned. “You normally simply do one YouTube video. If I put 100 individuals in a circle and say, ‘Final one to go away the circle wins 1,000,000 {dollars},’ that’s a single 40-minute video. In that one video you need to construct the characters and set the stage. By the point you begin constructing the characters, it’s already winding down, after which the video ends. It’s very arduous to get a variety of depth in a single YouTube video. I’ve simply all the time been actually enthusiastic about taking the large spectacles we do on YouTube however having the ability to do it over an episodic collection the place we might truly get to know the contestants and have extra depth and story and get extra invested into the challenges and video games. The thought was to take what we do on YouTube, however make it 10 instances greater and 20 instances higher.”
Allen, in any other case often called Participant 831, received the large prize in a chaotic finale. His son Lucas has creatine transporter deficiency (CTD), and Allen is placing that prize cash towards serving to him and others with that illness.
“Quantitatively, it prices like, $50 million to attempt to treatment a uncommon illness, and so $10 million goes to be an enormous jump-start,” Allen mentioned. “The qualitative aspect is a lot consciousness … stuff you possibly can’t measure with {dollars} and cents and people could possibly be much more highly effective than the prize, which is superior, however it’s my job to proceed to hold the torch and unfold the attention and in the end, attempt to discover a therapy for these kiddos.”
Verify again Monday for the panel video.
