In July 2013, the subscriber count of his channel, then named "That-dude", was around 240. In 20, Donaldson began to gain popularity on the platform due to his "worst intros" series of videos, which rounded up and poked fun at YouTuber introductions he discovered on the site. By mid-2016, Donaldson had around 30,000 subscribers. In fall 2016, Donaldson dropped out of East Carolina University to pursue a full-time career as a YouTuber. His mother did not approve of this, and made him move out of the family home.
Īs his channel grew Donaldson was able to hire four of his childhood friends – Chris Tyson, Chandler Hallow, Garrett Ronalds, and Jake Franklin – to work for him and the channel, which has led to them being regularly shown in his videos. Rise to fame (2017–2020)ĭonaldson at Los Angeles in March 2019, hosting and producing a $200,000 battle royale competition for his YouTube channel They then contacted numerous YouTubers in order to obtain statistics of their successful videos and predicting the platform's recommendation system. In January 2017, Donaldson published an almost day-long video of himself counting to 100,000.
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The stunt took him 40 hours, with some parts sped up to "keep it under 24 hours." A subsequent video titled "Counting to 200,000 (Road to a Mil)" was uploaded the next month, although, according to Donaldson, it too had to be sped up because the full fifty-five hours of counting exceeded YouTube's upload limit.