The Unexpected and Controversial Rise of MrBeast to YouTube Superstardom

After finishing high school in 2016, he enrolled at East Carolina University for a short time before dropping out to focus on his YouTube channel. With tens of thousands of subscribers, MrBeast’s YouTube channel was not the most popular there was, but was is also not completely unknown.

When his mother found out he had dropped out of college to focus on a YouTube career, she gave him an ultimatum: go back to school or find somewhere else to live while he pursued video-making as a career. At a later time, he explained that he thought she did it because she loved him and was “trying to push him to succeed.”