Time goes by and the things you have to do to gain exponential views on social media continue to get rarer and rarer. Recently MrBeast uploaded a video to YouTube e Instagram in which a driver repeatedly crashed a Lamborghini Gallardo in perfect working order against increasing amounts of duct tape.
From throwing a Lamborghini Gallardo into a crusher (do you have a thing for that car?) to giving a Toyota Corolla as a tip to a waitress, Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson has spent millions on his way to becoming the biggest TV channel. YouTube platform.
More than 400,000 euros for a 14-second video
The budgets of the videos, no matter how short they are, are very high. Between building incredibly elaborate sets for his videos and giving away prizes in the form of huge sums of money, MrBeast spends an absurd amount of money on a video.
On Monday, November 11, Donaldson posted a video in which he tested how much duct tape it would take to stop a Lamborghini, increasing the amount of tape with each take.
In the video of about 14 seconds published on social networks with the title ‘How much duct tape does it take to stop a Lamborghini?‘, the 26-year-old has managed to get someone to drive a Lamborghini Gallardo into a barrier of duct tape, each time increasing the number of rolls used to create that barrier. On the other hand, everything indicates that Mr.Beast was not present when the video was made (just look at the difference in length of his shadow with respect to that of the car or the poles).
At first it started with a single roll, but then it quickly multiplied to 100, 1,000 and 5,000 without the sports car suffering visible damage. Until 10,000 rolls of duct tape would have been used, starting when the hood of the Lamborghini flew off, and then, at 15,000, the car left the track after hitting the wall of duct tape. With its front shredded, the car plowed through 25,000 strips of tape before being stopped short by 25,001.
How much did the prank cost Mr.Beast? The Lamborghini Gallardo, depending on the condition and version, is a model that is currently traded between 75,000 euros and close to 300,000 euros for the rarest versions with less mileage, such as the Superleggera. In the case of MrBeast, we are going to think that it is one of the cheapest Gallardo, and maybe even with some mechanical problem to make it even cheaper. And his videos may seem stupid, but Jimmy Donaldson is not.
As for the duct tape, Jalopnik has bothered to find out how much they spent to stop the car.
“The cheapest unbranded multi-roll pack they found on Amazon costs $59.99 and has 24 rolls. To get enough rolls of adhesive tape for this experiment, MrBeast had to buy 1,713 packs, which would mean $102,762.90 (97,450 euros). Now, if they used a good quality tape, like 3M or Duck Tape, which costs around $7.49 per roll, this whole mess would have cost $307,928.88 (291,887 euros).”
In the end, the video will have cost him more than 400,000 eurosnot counting the rental of the court, the insurance associated with the use of the court, etc. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to think that he spent close to half a million dollars on a 12-second video. Has it been worth it? With almost 1.7 million likes on Instagram y more than 176 million views on YouTube in just five days, it is clear that yes.
Source: www.motorpasion.com
