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MrBeast earns $1 million from X leaving Elon Musk ecstatic
YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson Aka Mr Beast earns massive $1 million after posting five old videos on social networking website X owned by Elon Musk, as an experiment, Hindustan Times reported.
He shared the amazing news on his official X account, with the caption, “posting videos on X has been awesome so far.”
This attracted the attention from Musk himself who commented, “cool” underneath his post.
Posting videos on X has been awesome so far 🥰 pic.twitter.com/OQOHpTActH
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) April 5, 2024
MrBeast revealed he had generated the money through ad revenue from his content, which he plans to allocate towards future content creation.
He wrote: “So far it’s been around a million in ad revenue. I’m just adding it to my video budgets so now I can spend more on content lol.”
Since acquiring X, formerly Twitter, Musk had been urging Mr beast to post videos on X.
He finally did, posting his first video, titled, $1 car vs $100,000,000 car on X which ended up garnering over 177 million views.
After that he posted another four videos which combined received a viewership of over 753 million.
Earlier in March, Mr Beast announced that he is working with Amazon prime video to host a new reality competition series called Beast Games
Source thenews.com.pk