WILL GANSS: The gift of sight, for not just one--
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[WOMAN CRYING]
[LAUGHTER]
WILL GANSS: --or two-- - Yeah.
I can see your face.
WILL GANSS: --but 1,000 people getting free cataract removal.
Don't cry.
I can see everybody's facial features now.
It's a little blurry with my tears coming out.
WILL GANSS: The surgeries paid for by Jimmy Donaldson, better
known online as MrBeast--
They can't see, but we have all the technology to fix it.
Yeah.
Half of all the blindness in the world
is people who need a 10-minute surgery.
WILL GANSS: --the most followed individual on YouTube,
teaming up with ophthalmologist Jeff Levinson
in Jacksonville, Florida.
Dr. Levinson's Gift of Sight program
provides free cataract surgery to uninsured patients who are
legally blind due to cataracts.
Everything looks so more clear.
JIMMY DONALDSON: Yeah?
To make this day even more special,
since you're about to graduate high school and go to college,
we wanted to give you $50,000 to put towards college.
WILL GANSS: Giving back has been important to MrBeast
since he first started making money on YouTube.
JIMMY DONALDSON: I just got my first brand deal for $10,000,
and I just gave it away.
So I just literally--
I got it, and then I went outside
and I gave it to a homeless person.
WILL GANSS: And with this latest stunt,
MrBeast paying it forward across international borders.
JIMMY DONALDSON: Nearly half the population
with curable blindness doesn't have access to the surgery.
So I wanted to provide this to as many people as possible.
WILL GANSS: The video, racking up more than 40 million views
in less than a day.
The number one trending video on YouTube over the weekend.
You know, so many people think this--
you know, people on YouTube are just-- it's just all drama--
Drama, yeah.
JIMMY FALLON: Silliness, yeah.
And then you guys are focused on so many good things.
Which is something I would like to add.
Like, most creators-- like, I've message thousands,
and almost every single one of them
was, like, yes, how can I help?
They weren't, like, what's in it for me?
Or I don't know.
Like, genuinely.
I was shocked.
Dr. Levinson, the ophthalmologist,
says when he first got the phone call from MrBeast's team
in September, he had no idea who he was
and almost hung up the phone.
He now knows who MrBeast is, and says he's
very glad he didn't hang up.
Andrew, Andrea?
ANDREW DYMBURT: 40 million views later, I am sure.
And at the very least, this also spreads awareness.
Some 80% of, or more than half of,
Americans aged over 80 need cataract surgery.