MrBeast Runs Hollywood Like Your Weird Cousin’s Basement

MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, isn’t just YouTube’s biggest star with 400 million subscribers; he's turned Greenville, NC, into a zany content factory. His team logs 'hundreds of ideas,' but fear the dreaded 'cringe' stamp of rejection, making creatives quake in their boots. MrBeast’s ‘bad word’ is 'no,' demanding to ‘stop when all conceivable options are exhausted.’ With hundreds of cameras on some sets and producers juggling everything from timelines to airport pickups, this isn’t Hollywood—it’s a chaotic viral spree where 'friends of friends' become ‘task force,’ showing that nothing screams professionalism like Googling ‘how to make viral spectacles.’

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Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/14/2025 | Author: Dan Whateley