
MrBeast traces how he gave away $1 million through increasingly wild stunts: starting with $10,000 to a homeless person from his first brand deal, then donating to Twitch streamers like Ninja, buying a car with pennies, and dropping money from drones. He credits YouTube earnings and says anyone can do it if they make the money.
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Today I'm going to show you guys how I gave away $1 million. It all started when I got my first brand deal from Quidd. They gave me $10,000 and I was like, whoa, that's a lot of money. And I immediately went outside and gave it to a homeless person. So, uh, if you want to take it, it's about $10,000. And that right there is the first time I ever gave away a large amount of money. Quidd offered me another $10,000 or something like that for another video, and this time I wanted to help as many people as possible, and I just gave like, I don't know how much, but I gave them like a few thousand each instead of just giving it all to one guy. Hi, uh, I'm a YouTuber. I'm going around giving random people who need $1,000. So best day of my life right here, dude. I really like that guy, no joke. He was actually like super cool. And the next giveaway I did was actually the first time I ever donated to Twitch streamers. It was titled Donating $10,000 to Random Twitch Streamers, and it was also sponsored by Quid. 200 isn't crap. MrBeast, yo! Yeah, so this was the first guy I ever did like a big donation to. Like, I've always donated to Twitch streamers, but since this video was sponsored and I actually had thousands of dollars, like, this was the first time I actually gave a Twitch streamer over a grand, and his reaction was hilarious. Fast forward a few weeks and Quid wanted to do another video with me. This was my fourth sponsored video with them, and of course I was doing other content in between, but back then I had no idea that like brand deals were even really like this Crazy. And the fact that they kept giving me $10,000 to give away was like insane to me. Dude, I love this guy's reaction. Yeah, stop playing. No, no, are you serious? Okay, actually, I lied. Oh my God. Yeah, dude, I love him. There's a guy, a Chinese man. Yeah, this guy right here, he wouldn't take the money. Yeah, like he goes, no, no, no, no. I had like $500 too and he didn't want it. And that was one of like the first highs I ever got like donating to people. And then I was like, well, shit. I was like, this is a lot of fun. I wanna keep doing it. And then ever since then, I've just been like, hey, I might as well just give away everything I make, right? Just kidding. My channel started to do really well and we were making lots of money, so then I did this video, which was also sponsored by Quid. Obviously, they didn't give us anywhere near the $100,000 that I gave my mom, but I mean, it at least helped. And then came donating money to attractive Twitch streamers. By the way, Chandler and Chris are now joining us.
Hello. Hello.
Throughout my whole life, I've gone through ups and downs watching PewDiePie, but at this point, I was watching a lot of PewDiePie. One of his memes were like, "Respecting women." And so then I was like, "Hey, I'll just respect women on Twitch." And so that's what this was. Respect. I watched a lot of PewDiePie and it influenced me, okay, in weird ways. Professional woman respecter here, reporting for duty. It's time for a respect raid. They remember that. With respect. Yeah, this guy right here.
He was in a couple videos too.
Yeah, no, no, this was the only one he was in.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
There was another shirtless dude that was in another video. So then after that we did another one because people loved the first one and we're done commanding for a second one. I was like, okay, I'll do it.
Spread the love.
Yeah, see, that's my dude.
That's what I like.
This is your favorite shirtless fat dude on Twitch?
Dude, exactly. I'll take this over any streamer, man.
I love that belly slap. So then we bought a car with pennies and gave it to my stepdad. You have no idea how long it took to like unravel all this. We literally showed up to the dealership and we're like, oh, this will take 30 minutes. Like half a day later, we were still like taking the pennies out of the little wrapper things. Dude, look how happy he is. And the only logical thing to do after buying a car with pennies is to give $30,000 to a Twitch streamer. This one was a very big video for me back then. And the guy I donated to was Spacelyon. He was just an extremely humble dude. Dude, then I did $5,000. Dude, I think he started crying. Yeah, $10,000 is what I did next.
That was huge back in that day.
Look at this, he just stops. Fun fact, a few months after this, when we tied our shoes in every state, we actually stopped by his place 3, 2, 1. Then I bought a car with $1 bills and gave it to my brother. Dude, Ethan looks like a stud kinda right there. That's my brother, we gave it to him. I keep trying to make my brother start a YouTube channel. He doesn't want to, whatever.
People think I'm your brother now.
Yeah?
Yeah, a lot of people.
You might as well be. You wanna be my brother?
Yeah, can you tell?
Alright, he's officially my brother.
Can I be your son instead of your brother?
No, you're my brother.
Okay.
Yeah. Guys, comment down below if you think my actual brother, this guy right here, should start a YouTube channel. And then we gave homeless people $20,000. It starts off, I gave this guy $1,000. Dude, that's the same as what we did, just way lower scale. Right? I don't know if when this goes public, our giving $100,000 to homeless people, if that video's public. But this is literally what we did, just at a much lower scale, because we only had $20,000 at the time. Which, by the way, this video wasn't even sponsored. Like, a lot of comments on the video are like, "You only do this because your videos are sponsored." I'm like, "This one wasn't even sponsored!" Big daddy. We have the infamous Ninja donation. You know, I used to watch Ninja occasionally, pretty good streamer. I used to play a lot of Fortnite. I was like, hey, let's give him $30 grand. This man is a god. That was a lot of fun, and it was really cool interacting with Ninja back then, because like back then I was really small. And then bada boom, bada bang, we hit 3 million subscribers and gave him 3 million pennies. So now it's time I give you a little insights. 3 million pennies is $30,000, but getting 3 million pennies, which weigh like thousands of pounds, we needed like a big truck to move it all, obviously cost more than $30 grand. I think in total it cost us $42,000 to get $30,000 of pennies, and then it was thousands of dollars to transport it. In total, like, this video was like a $48,000 video. We bought the pennies off eBay because banks wouldn't give them to us because they thought we were joking. Look at that, like, 2 tractor-trailers. Look at all those pennies.
We had to rent a forklift, we had to do all kinds of stuff.
Look at all those pennies, dude. That was such a crazy video. I still can't believe we did that. And then we dropped $20,000 from drones.
That was fun.
As you see, there's a drone up there, and we literally just put a bunch of money in it and just dropped it. It was crazy seeing people.
Look at these kids. Look at that kid.
The first time we did it, we dropped it in front of Walmart, but it was so high up the wind blew and it literally blew all the money on top of Walmart. Like, no joke, if you go on our local Walmart, there's probably like a couple thousand dollars up there. After this, you just—
I know that.
Do you really? Yeah, he didn't get anybody. Look, he gets a—
I'm late.
Wasted. Didn't get a dollar.
Dude, could you call him?
I gotta send him that. Call him.
Do you remember when we dropped money from the drone? Yeah, yeah, I remember that. We were just watching that and you looked so sad. Was Chandler a weirdo when he was young?
Yeah, we worked with him on an anatomy project and he took the lead in dissecting, I think it was a pig fetus or something, and he got squirted by one of the organs and seemed Oh yeah, dude, I remember that.
It squirted all over my face.
Alright, well, next time we drop money from a drone, we'll try to drop it when you're paying attention. I gave my 4 million subscriber 4 million cookies. Obviously that doesn't involve money, but at the end I handed them 4 grand. And then we donated $10,000 if they said this word. What word? I think it was fluffy.
Fluff.
Fluff.
That's such a hard word to say though. Like, who would say that?
Fluff. My hint was it has to do with rabbits. I gave it away. Took her 3 seconds to win 10 grand.
Hey, that's a lot of work, man.
Well, I know, but like, When I was filming the video, I was like, "Ah, she's not gonna get it." And she got it, and I was like—
I remember that, you were like, "Wait a minute!" I was like, "Well crap!
Where's my content?!" Ooh, then we destroyed our friend's car and bought him a new one. This car right here that we screwed up was like $800. And then we took him to the dealership and we gave him $10,000 to spend, and he bought this Tahoe. Hey, there's you! Oh dude, that's when you had a spray tan! That was the tan! Yeah! Dude!
You had a spray tan!
Yeah, I got a spray tan.
Here, can we get a replay of that? Chris, I liked you with the tan better.
Thank you.
And that's calling current you not— as attractive as old you.
Thank you, I agree 100%.
This has nothing to do with giving away money, but I spent a lot of money on an ice sculpture of Logan Paul. For like all you new people that never saw it, my fire thrower.
Look at that.
Look at that, we made weenies. Look how powerful that is.
I know, dude.
Wow.
Good lord.
I don't know if you've seen this video, but look at that.
Dude, that's an insane flame.
Alright, let's move on before environmentalists hate us. So this was the Logan Paul ice sculpture.
It's actually not bad.
Yeah, it was, dude, it was expensive.
Yeah, that was like 8 grand. And then right here is our little checkmark. This video titled "I Gave $500,000 to Random People" was uploaded 7 months ago, and it was just a montage of all the times I gave away money before it. It wasn't any extra cash. Right here marks $500,000 given away. So then we took apart Garrett's car, put it in his room, and then we bought him a new one. This was hard. Yeah, this is a lot of work, dude. This one didn't even get that many views. It only got 5 million views. That only got 5 million views. That only got 5 million views. That only got 5 million views. That only got 5 million views. That only got 5 million views. Dude, look, look, look, we were talking about PewDiePie. Dude, people are like, "Oh, they're just hopping on the T-Series bandwagon." I swear to God, since I've made my channel, I've always talked about PewDiePie. I've been talking about PewDiePie for years. I was subscribed to PewDiePie when he had like 500,000.
Weird flex, but okay.
Yeah, I know. That is the definition of a weird flex. Like, everyone watching is probably like, "Why do we care?" Hi, Mom. My mom wants me to take my medicine. We're trying to film a video. Yeah, could you all turn these lights off when you leave? It won't get so hot in here. All right, guys, comment down below and remind us to turn off the lights so we don't make my mom unhappy.
We'll forget.
Yeah, we will. I made money grow on trees. I don't remember how much we spent, but I know we put like thousands of dollars in ones. Oh, dude, wait, wait, no, I love the one where the guy stole the tree. That is like my favorite. Yeah, right here. Wait, watch this.
He took the entire—
no, literally, he did not care.
He took $1, was like, you know what, I'm just—
look at it. That is so funny to me. Oh yeah, remember this one, Chris?
Yeah, we threw money up in the air.
Oh yeah, here's, here's the famous backflip. Boom!
Didn't it look—
dude, he looks like he was hovering. Watch.
Yeah, for like half a second.
Yeah.
Oh, oh.
Here's the big one. Then we donated 50,000 V-Bucks to Ninja. This was the first time Honey ever sponsored us too. And this is when Honey basically became the new Quid. Everyone comment down below your love for Honey. I'm definitely not saying that because they're about to give us a really large deal for next year.
This was fun. He had to drop his mats and stuff.
Oh yeah, that's so cool. I would— dude, if he would do a charity stream like this again, I'd go back in with like $100 grand. Every time I donated $250, he had to drop his gun. And $500, he had to drop his mats.
Dude, we had, me and you were on two separate computers spamming donations so that way if he picked up mats or gold, we would drop them instantly.
And right here, he had no materials because I kept donating $500 and making him drop it all. Donating $100,000 to random Fortnite streamer. I didn't actually donate $100,000, I donated $50,000. MiniMiner, who collabed with me on the video, did $50,000, so that's how we got $100 grand. Destroyed my friend's car, gave him $10,000 to buy a new one. Didn't we blow it up?
We blew it to smithereens, bro.
Look at this. Yeah, and then we poured slime on it. So we flipped it, destroyed it, poured slime all over it. Oh no, no.
50,000 likes, we'll get spray tans.
I said if this video gets 300,000 likes, we'll all get spray tans. Chris, can you read those likes to me?
That is 595,000.
To be fair, I completely forgot I said that. Chandler, were you working here back then?
Yeah.
All right, we all have to get spray tans.
Let's get 'em.
I'm a man of my word. Might not be till like January next year, We will all go get spray tans, I promise. I gave Tfue $10,000 live. That was actually a lot of fun.
Those are good guys.
Yeah, I really like Tfue. And I also like Juke. His brother's extremely helpful. Anytime we wanna do a video, he's always down to help. And then I gave whoever stayed in the circle the longest $10,000, which spawned a very big trend. But more importantly than all the people doing our trend, Chandler asked, "Can I throw my poop?" The meme was born.
The meme was born.
And now people all the time, even in public, go up to Chandler and they're like, "Can you throw your poop?" Yeah, they do. How do you feel that the whole world, all they care about is whether or not you can throw your poop? Like, that's it.
That's a poor choice of words.
Dude, I had to live with the "Do you moisturize?" for like 7 years.
And now that you said it, it's coming back. Ah! Guess the right cup, $100,000. We didn't actually give away $100,000 in this video. The premise of the video was if you guessed the right cup, you won the money under it, and you could do double or nothing, but I think we only ended up giving away like 50 grand. People just weren't winning. Like, literally 90% of people lost. Hey, there's you, Chandler.
Hey.
Oh, you didn't say anything.
How much did you win?
$2,000.
You won $2,000?
Yeah. Hey, I guess I'm not here. It's whatever.
Yeah, we— oh, we skipped Chris.
Oh yeah, it's fine. Who cares?
I tripped.
All right, I need a side-by-side comparison, people. Which butt do you like better, Chris's butt or Chandler's butt?
You know my butt's better.
I gotta wed you though.
You're a butt-hungry boy.
I'm just saying, I better see a lot of comments about which 'Person has the better butt.' Oh my god, this video is hella expensive. 'Give my 10 million subscribers 10 million underscore underscore underscore.' It was 10 million W's. The rules are simple: 10 games, you get points placed on how you rank. Come in first, you get $30 grand. Last place gets nada. You already know the rules. So in that video, I brought in my 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th— all of my million subscribers had to play video games, uh, and I didn't even put the $100,000 in that title, but I gave away $100,000 in that video to my you know, million subscribers. That was a lot of money. That hurt. And then I gave the boys 1 hour to spend $40 grand. I actually really like that video. What'd you buy, Chris?
I bought the fence, which I love. I cannot thank you enough for that fence.
Hey, wait, Chan, you don't have a beard here.
I know, right?
Dude, you look like a mountain man now.
I love this shot. They're just walking out and then this old guy. That was funny. I want to see what Chandler bought. You already passed me. Are you at the end? No, you're not important. You're probably at the end.
Oh, that hurt.
Where's Chandler? I'm at the beginning. Hey, all right, Chris's dogs are more important.
Look at them, they were so little.
And then after that, we destroyed our friend's house and completely revamped it. That was like $40 grand. $20,000 to last to leave slime. The Lego video, did I give away money in that?
Surprisingly, no. You just be giving out money all the time.
Yeah, I know. Oh, I gave your dad $20,000 in pennies. You did? That was cool.
He loves his new car. Yeah?
I never saw his new car. It was such a late night, and I had a late night the day before, so I left before he got it. And there it was, the holy grail. Last YouTuber to leave the circle got $100 grand. That wasn't even sponsored. My bank account still hurts, but it was a cool video. That was a lot of fun. That's probably one of my favorite videos, 'cause I met, I got to meet a lot of cool people. You guys gotta go to LA, go to the Clout House.
I know, it was fun.
Yeah, you guys are so famous.
I know, I got to meet a lot of people that I've watched for a while.
And then after that, I donated $10,000 to PewDiePie. I didn't feel like clickbaiting it, but I think in reality we spent like $40,000 on that video. Yeah, so that's all the money we gave away.
Million dollars.
If you want the special secrets, you want to know where it all came from, um, my parents aren't that rich. I'm only 20 years old. Every dollar I've ever made came from YouTube, and YouTube just pays better than you think. Alright, there you go. That's the secret.










