MrBeast poses with thousands of fans who turned out for the launch of the first MrBeast Burger Restaurant this past SeptemberHoliday parties are usually a mix of people and purposes but hosts this year are intent on cross-pollinating the stars of film with those of Hollywood’s exo planets –
The credentials of these outliers, after all, are formidable. MrBeast — with 117 million followers — and fellow YouTuber Unspeakable reportedly made $54 million and $28.5 million respectively last year so why wouldn’t they mesh with film stars, who face fading income streams? Two years ago the 34-year-old software salesman was at death’s door with a diseased liver, his name sitting on a long transplant waiting list. His pledge: “If I ever got to the top of the list, I want to build not only a new life but a life worth living.”
I caught up with several of Fine’s fifteen minute videos NotaScratchGolfer channel and found him to be a genial “Everyman” with a day off. And a permanent golf game. They don’t have to beg anyone to watch their audition tapes. More important, they don’t have to prove their talent because, in most cases, they don’t have much.
Paul Blart.