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Popular YouTubers MrBeast, and Mark Rober launched a creator-driven philanthropic initiative called #TeamSeas on Friday. The environmental project aims to raise $30 million by the end of 2021, in an effort to remove 30 million pounds of trash from oceans, rivers, and beaches.
MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, is a 23-year-old YouTuber who has billions of views and over 186 million subscribers across social media. Donaldson is known for giving away large amounts of money in his videos, either by donating it or through challenges and competitions. Rober is a former National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Apple engineer who also has billions of views on YouTube, as well as over 20 million followers across social media. The creators worked together in the past, notably on their 2019 #TeamTrees initiative, another environmental campaign that met the goal of planting 20 million trees.
