The Professional Idiots Are in Trouble

Jimmy Donaldson is one of the most popular entertainers in the world. Millennials know him as MrBeast, and for ten years, millions of us have haunted his YouTube channel, where he posts videos of insane, insanely expensive stunts with titles like I Gave $20,000 To Random Homeless People, or I Spent 50 Hours Buried Alive. MrBeast is the most popular channel on YouTube (those videos have 47 million and 325 million views, respectively); if it were a country, it would have the fourth-largest population in the world. But mainstream media has always turned its nose up at MrBeast, if it bothers to cover him at all.