Get a life.’”Īfter he quit school, his mother was so disappointed that she kicked him out of the house, he says.
“People would tell me, ‘All you do is talk about YouTube videos. I thought I was a freak of nature,” he told content creators and podcasters Colin and Samir in September. “That’s all I ever talked about at school. Instead of going to class, he spent most of his time on campus editing videos in his car. His mother urged him to go to college, but he dropped out of East Carolina University after two weeks. The shy 18-year-old had been posting videos on YouTube for five years from his mom’s North Carolina house without much traction.
In the fall of 2016, Jimmy Donaldson did not seem like a future celebrity multimillionaire.
