If there’s a king of YouTube, it is Jimmy Donaldson, higher often known as MrBeast. Now, his new Prime Video aggressive actuality sequence, Beast Video games, is coming to Houston for the tip of an enormous tour celebrating the endeavor this Thursday, December 19.
The 26-year-old Donaldson gained widespread fame on-line for his movies, lots of which concerned massive giveaways. As of 2024, he has over 330 million subscribers on YouTube, essentially the most of any single person. That fame allowed him to associate with Amazon to provide Beast Video games.
A chimera of assorted actuality present challenges with a bit of further MrBeast magic blended in, Beast Video games is a white-knuckle expertise. With $5 million on the road, a thousand contestants face off in quite a lot of challenges. These may very well be something from dangling off a constructing to spending time in an precise asylum to being hunted by U.S. Navy Seals. All of it’s hosted by MrBeast and set to premier on Thursday, December 19.
The Houston occasion is the capstone of a weeklong tour around the globe hyping up the present. It started on New York Metropolis with an enormous drone present, after which globetrotted via Toronto, Buenos Aries, Sydney, Berlin, Istanbul, and Los Angeles.
For the ultimate cease in Houston, the tour will happen at Discovery Inexperienced and will likely be open to the general public. The tour partnered with the Houston First Company to assist stage the occasion. There will likely be a big drone gentle present, music by DJ Mohawk Steve, a comedy set from Chinedu Ogu, a synchronized lighting show from the constructing surrounding Discovery Inexperienced, and a screening of the primary two episodes of the 10-episode sequence. Sadly, MrBeast won’t be in attendance, organizers inform CultureMap.
MrBeast has channeled an excessive amount of his fame into charity. Via his Beast Philanthropy group, he has distributed tens of millions of free meals, dug wells in areas disadvantaged of contemporary water, and aided amputees with remedy and prosthetics. Whereas his movies and Beast Video games typically have the air of a circus act, it stays one with coronary heart that places an excessive amount of good into the world.
