In this YouTube video, MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) responds to his fans' repeated requests to plant 20 million trees by attempting a massive tree‑planting operation. The video follows a vlog‑style narrative showing the on‑the‑ground process: digging holes, placing saplings, adding mulch, watering, and performing tug tests to ensure stability. Tree‑planting expert Sarah explains best practices such as 8‑foot spacing, proper mulching, and root health. Volunteers—including Chris, Chandler, and many fans—join the effort, with Mark Rober appearing to contribute his engineering expertise and discuss a drone plan for scaling the operation. Despite planting only a few hundred trees in the field, the team captures before‑and‑after drone footage to illustrate progress. The video then shifts to a fundraising appeal: a partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation and the TeamTrees.org campaign, where each donated dollar funds one tree. MrBeast pledges a personal $100,000 donation (equivalent to 100,000 trees) and urges viewers to donate now, emphasizing the urgency of forest restoration and the high survivability rates ensured by the nonprofit. The narrative blends humor, community engagement, educational snippets on proper tree planting, and a persuasive call to action to mobilize a global audience for reforestation.
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You guys spammed me to plant 20 million trees on Twitter, Reddit, all over my comment section, so I made it happen. Today we will be planting 20 million trees. And we put them in the hole. Now we need mulch. Put the mulch around the tree. And we hydrate it. And there we go. And again. Hole. Tree. Mulch. Water. And before we go any further, this is Sarah. She's a tree planting expert. Will this tree grow to be big and healthy? I'm going to look and see if I can pull on it and it doesn't pull out of the planting hole. So good job there. Only 19,999,980 more trees. Let's go! Yeah! Oh yeah, sturdy. Oh, very sturdy. Dude, you could tug on this with a rope and it wouldn't come out. Chris, I need help. Can you massage my tree for me? Massage your tree? I can't get it out of this pot. Dude, it's like rock solid in here. There you go. So talking to trees makes them grow faster? Huh? Bro, what do you want, the planet to die? Come on, grow! You see the sky? It's so beautiful. You gotta be a house for birds and stuff. You gotta toughen these trees up. Look at this, no movement. So the reason we're spacing the trees 8 feet apart is so the roots like have to grow out and they don't have to compete. It's kind of weird to put mulch around a growing tree because it's like grinding up all of its relatives and spreading it around Bruh. All right, well, it started to rain. At least now we don't have to water the trees. No, but seriously, we want to plant 20 million trees and a little bit of rain never hurt anyone. The tree falls in the woods, no one's around to hear it, doesn't make noise. Yes, still a tree. Plant a tree in the middle of the forest. Hold on, I've got to do something important. Timber! Why are you mad? What is this? That's a hole. With a tree in it. Look at that tree! Look! What is this, Chris? You see that? Do you see that? Tchau! After planting all day, we only managed to plant 300 trees. Which is less than 20 million and my back hurts. I put out a tweet and I have tons of people coming here tomorrow to plant trees. I think I've got an idea for a drone. So I haven't mentioned this yet, but this is Mark Rober. This is his channel. He used to work at NASA. He put this thing on Mars. He does a lot of cool things. He's going to try with the drone and we're going to try with people. Play to your strengths. All right. It's day number 2 and we brought a lot more people. And now we're going to try to plant the 20 million trees. So step 1 is we need to give everyone their tree. Can I have a fist bump? Yes. Oh my God. I'll name him Russell. Russell. Look at all these people. We're easily going to hit 20 million. And now it's time to begin. Let's plant the trees. Yeah. Bless you, him. He already planted it. You're doing great. Great. Good job. Do you need help? If you would like to help, go for it. Yes, I think right here seems like the best spot. The hole's too big. Tree review. Let's see the— do the tongue test. Ugh. You don't want any oxygen in the root system or the tree won't survive. What are these people doing? That's a solid tree. That's a solid boy? That's a solid tree. OK, good. That's great. Whoever planted that, amazing. Make sure you want to do a donut, and I believe in you. Thank you so much for helping us do this, by the way. How'd you hear about this? Oh, I saw the tweet, had to hop in. Oh, not bad. Fits well, I like it. Thanks for helping with my tree, man. Of course, appreciate it. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. I was honestly like, I have to do this. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We're gonna get to the 20 mil, right? Oh, 100%. All right, no doubt. Cool. Alright, thank you. Interview conducted. Look at all these people. Let's do a tree test. The way you know if they did a good job is if you can pull on it, and that one you can pull on. You're killing it. Thank you. How many trees have you planted so far today? Um, I have dug 473 holes. Really? Yes. How many did you do? Hey, you digging? Bruh. How's it going? I don't know, how's it going? It's good, it's good. It's pretty fun to plant some trees. It is pretty fun to plant some trees. You know? You know, Earth does a lot. Earth does do a lot. Do a little tug test. Oh, she's nice. Oh, she's nice. We just need some— that's a good tree, man. Good job, Chris, dude. Thanks. Got him! There we go. He gets a high five, you know, whatever. The last tree. Thanks, Chandler. As you can see, there are a ton of trees here. Now we actually grabbed a drone shot beforehand, so So here's the drone shot of the empty field. Look at it. It's empty. And here's the drone shot now. Is that a lot of extra trees? Yes, it's quite extra. We had to— Yeah. Cool. Unfortunately, despite having a large number of people, we came nowhere near close to planting 20 million trees. But I don't want to let you guys down. So I devised a plan where we can actually plant 20 million trees. But I need your help. We partnered with the largest nonprofit tree planting organization in the world, Arbor Day. But we need your help. Every dollar donated, they will plant a tree. Watch. Here's a dollar and I donated it. Another dollar, another tree. Here's $10 and I just donated it. This is $30. And guess what happens when I donate it? Even Chandler can do it. Another one. Another one. Yep. And another one. Arbor Day and their partners are the pros. They've planted hundreds of millions of trees. They'll make sure they have a high rate of survivability and they genuinely do care. If you donate a dollar, something like this ends up in the ground and given enough time, this will turn into this masterpiece. Now, one thing I want to address, I personally haven't always been the most environmentally friendly. We've burnt the box fort and we've done many other dumb things. And a lot of you might be of the mindset of the old me that was basically, you know, someone else will figure it out. But that's not how it works. We genuinely need all the help we can get. And honestly, I've done everything I can. I got a bunch of fans together and we planted thousands of trees. Me and Mark have invested months of time behind the scenes into getting this all together, and I'm personally planting 100,000 trees, a.k.a. $100,000 donation. I've literally tried my best to do everything I can, and now it's your guys' turn. You guys have been spamming my comment section and spamming my mentions on Twitter telling me to do something. And now I wanna see that same energy. We only have one Earth, and it's important we take care of it. Recently, lots of not so great things have been happening to forests, and people just keep making fun of our generation for retweet activism and not actually doing something. Which is why we created TeamTrees.org with the help of the Arbor Day Foundation. This is your chance to make a difference. For every dollar you donate here on YouTube or at TeamTrees.org, a tree will be planted. And the Arbor Day Foundation are really good at what they do. These trees will have an extremely high rate of survivability. Please donate now. Don't push it off till later. You might forget. This is our chance to show the world we care. TeamTrees.org. Donate there, or donate using the donate button below the video. Thank you.
