Donaldson who has over 163 million followers on YouTube is known for posting videos featuring some extreme stunts such as being buried alive for 50 hours and spending 50 hours in solitary confinement. — Screengrab from YouTube
Popular content creator MrBeast says in a now-viral tweet that he was invited to join the expedition to see the Titanic wreck on the doomed Titan submersible.
“I was invited earlier this month to ride the titanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it...,” he said in a post that has gotten more than 74 million views on Twitter.
MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, shared a cropped screenshot of a message that he claimed to have received where the sender said the team on the Titan would be “stoked” to have him along on the journey.
However, some users on Twitter have asked if he’s making the story up due to the colour of his message being blue. On iMessage, a blue text box indicates outgoing messages from an iPhone user, while messages received would be in grey text boxes.
Donaldson addressed the speculation by explaining that the picture was a screenshot of a message from a friend: “My friend sent me the screenshot of when he invited me. Didn’t think to scroll up and screenshot our old texts myself.”
Other users, presumably fans, have said that they are happy to hear he declined the invitation. Donaldson who has over 163 million followers on YouTube is known for posting videos featuring some extreme stunts such as being buried alive for 50 hours and spending 50 hours in solitary confinement.
His most popular video saw him recreating the Squid Game experience in real life, featuring 456 contestants and a cash prize of US$456,000 (RM2.1mil).
On June 22, the US Coast Guard said that all five passengers on board the Titan submersible had died due to a catastrophic implosion in the ocean. The submersible was first reported missing on June 18 after it failed to return to surface from a two-hour descent to see the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic ocean.
