YouTube star and philanthropist MrBeast says ‘ideally’ governments, not content creators, should build homes and cure blindness – but he won’t ‘stand by and do nothing’

Donaldson, aka MrBeast, has previously questioned why governments don’t do more to help certain causes. — MrBeast/The New York Times

Jimmy Donaldson has in the past been criticised for using the US$700mil (RM3.30bil) fortune amassed by his work on YouTube to right social inequalities. But the 26-year-old, who goes by the online moniker ‘MrBeast’ has a question: what would you have him do instead?

The creator posted on X this week about the backlash he has received on videos such as 'I built 100 homes and gave them away' and '1,000 blind people see for the first time.'