On 8 May earlier this week, YouTube megastar MrBeast recently held a giveaway on his Instagram page to celebrate his birthday on 7 May, announcing that he would be giving away US$10,000 (or SGD$13,257) to 5 random people, out of almost 40 million of his followers.
For context, MrBeast’s number of followers amounts to more than the combined population of both Singapore and Malaysia.
All the participants had to do were follow @mrbeast on Instagram, share his Instagram post on their own Instagram stories and tag someone in the comments section.
The giveaway was open to the whole world, excluding New York.
However, the initial post was taken down Instagram, and MrBeaast then said that it was no issue because his team had been saving the names.
And he then updated his giveaway and said that he would be giving US$10,000 to 10 people this time instead of the 5 originally announced.
MrBeast then announced the ten winners of the giveaway, posting screenshots of the winners’ Instagram accounts on his Instagram story and tagging them in it.
A Singaporean visual and graphics designer, Sheryl Tan (@meyyen_) became 1 out of the 10 winners of the giveaway after the winners were announced.
Tan then reposted the story about her win and said that she was hyperventilating when she found out about it.
The biggest YouTuber on the platform
MrBeast is the online identity of 25-year-old online American content creator Jimmy Donaldson, who is the most subscribed YouTuber on the video sharing platform, with more than 150 million subscribers (discounting the other YouTube channels run by corporations).
He is estimated to have earned US$54 million from his videos and businesses in 2021 and an estimated US$110 million last year.
Some of his acts of generosity include tipping service staff at eateries $10,000, giving away cars, houses and even entire islands.
