It's the first episode of his new season of Surviving, but it's Euro this time. He's also apparently worth over $3M himself at 24. He's a huge fundraiser for charity and wanted to share a feelgood video to celebrate a young American creator. Since it's just starting, will be fun to follow his journey.
Starting in Paris...
Surviving on $0.01 for 30 Days series
On June 1, 2022, he started a series where he would start with a penny and a backpack and has 30 days to travel all the way to MrBeast in North Carolina, starting from Los Angeles, California. He said he wanted to do this because of the US Mint ceasing the production of the penny in 2023, and that MrBeast doesn't have one. It was also a fundraiser collaboration with Feeding America to raise money to end hunger in America, where 1 dollar donated would provide at least 10 meals. So far, the fundraiser has raised over 1.4 million dollars, which is equivalent to at least 14 million meals.
On June 30, 2022, he finally completed his journey. A few results of the entire journey include:
Traveling from Los Angeles to North Carolina in a span of 30 days for over 3,000 miles.
The total length of the entire series is 8 hours.
$509.21 was spent on transportation alone.
He ate from McDonald's every single day, hence making him have at least 30 meals from McDonald's (and at least 30 iced coffees?)
The goal of $100,000 was greatly exceeded, and nearly $1.4M was raised with 14K donations (the average donation being $94.95), so at least 14M meals.
Over 2 million cents were raised from new subscribers for at least 200,000 meals.
MrBeast donated $102,000 to feeding families.
Ryan Michael Trahan (born: October 7, 1998 [age 24]) is an American YouTuber and entrepreneur best known for his vlogs, challenges, commentary and lifestyle videos. Ryan was born on October 7, 1998 in the small town of Eagle Lake, Texas, U.S. He went to Rice High School in Altair, Texas, and was valedictorian. Ryan's Twitter account shows his closeness with his family, particularly with his dad and brother Matthew. He grew up without a grandfather. He made a pact in 2021 with Dr. Phil's agent Alicia through e-mail if his channel passed Phil's channel in subscribers, he would legally have him to be his adoptive grandfather. His channel successfully passed that goal in early 2022, and has traveled to Paramount Studios in Los Angeles to interview him (though he ultimately ended up not asking the question face-to-face).
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September 16, 2022 - Trahan started his YouTube channel six years ago which is based on his daily life. As of today, he has around 300 videos and a huge amount of subscribers – 10 million. Well, Ryan first started uploading fun content weekly, which included sports and athletes.
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Ryan is super famous. There's a video service called Omegle, it's a free video service that introduces you to new random people. You can skip to the next person. It's mostly for young people though anyone can use it (haven't). In this video, he gives $5000 away to random people he meets on Omegle. It's amazing how many know him... and this was three years ago.
Paying Strangers Rent on Omegle!