Making a video for 6 years that no one watched, a 21-year-old YouTuber suddenly became a millionaire thanks to finding the ‘secret’ behind YouTube’s algorithm
In the fall of 2016, Jimmy Donaldson decided to drop out of college to find a way to ‘uncover’ one of the biggest mysteries in the media industry: How can a video go viral on YouTube? Donaldson, then 18 years old, has been posting content to YouTube since he was a 12-year-old boy. Jimmy Donaldson…