![]() Sure, I could’ve asked MrBeast for an interview. “I don’t know if we’ll find him,” I replied. “When are we going to interview MrBeast?” asked Patrick, who is eight. ![]() The first of these was now making itself heard from the backseat. But, like some of MrBeast’s wildest endeavours (in which ambition sometimes clashes with reality, such as when he tried to sit underwater in a backyard pool for 24 hours), my quest involved significant miscalculations. It seemed worth going in search of this improbable folk hero. My son started asking for MrBeast hamburgers and MrBeast Feastable chocolate bars – and even wanted to meet MrBeast He roams around with a pack of friends who gamely submit to his instructions to win stacks of money – sitting in bathtubs of snakes, doing push-ups until they collapse or riding the same roller-coaster over and over until they’re slumped and groaning. He has filled his brother’s house with so much expanding foam that it erupted out the chimney (he then bought him a new house). He has built elaborate sets recreating “Squid Game” and Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. MrBeast, I learned, is not a YouTube star, but the YouTube star – the app’s highest earning celebrity, reigning over a raucous but good-natured landscape of outrageous stunts, grand acts of charity and endurance competitions for cash prizes. “What,” I’d said with half-feigned interest. It was Max who kept talking about him – asking for MrBeast hamburgers and MrBeast Feastable chocolate bars and talking about how awesome it would be to meet someone with the unwholesome name of MrBeast, who might give you some money or a car or something.
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