Giving a tip is a way of thanking and compensating someone for a service performed. This bonus is voluntary, but in some countries, such as the United States, it is mandatory due to the low wages of workers in the service sector. As a general rule, it is a small amount that we usually give to waiters, taxi drivers or delivery men to reward their professionalism.
Although the most common thing is to part with a few coins or a low-value bill, on several occasions we have had the opportunity to read news about large tips that have been received by waiters in tourist locations, almost always from the hands of Arab sheikhs. What is not common is that the client of a restaurant leaves a car as a tip, as has been done by the youtuber Mr.Beast, who has decided to give a new Toyota Corolla to a waitress who served him.
The well-known youtuber, with more than 100 million followers on social networks, begins recording the video by asking the waitress what has been the biggest tip she has received. The young woman answers "50 dollars", and then Jimmy Donaldson, which is the name of the youtuber, asks her another question: "Has anyone ever tipped you a car?"
Without giving the young woman time to respond, Mr Beast hands her the keys to a car and tells her that he is giving her a new Toyota Corolla. At first the waitress is skeptical and doesn't buy it. “These are car keys, it's not a car,” she says. However, everything changes when the youtuber invites her to go outside and leads her to the restaurant's parking lot.
In the face of the young woman's disbelief, who has not quite gotten the idea of what is happening, they both approach a brand new black Toyota Corolla that is parked next to other cars. The car that the youtuber gives him corresponds to the 2023 version, the most up-to-date, which is equipped with a hybrid engine and a 9-inch touch screen. The price of access to the cheapest version of this model is about 25,000 euros.
To make his altruistic gesture profitable, the youtuber will force the young waitress to advertise a brand of chocolate bars every time she drives around in her new car. And it is that on the sides of the vehicle there are some vinyls with the brand of chocolate bars with which Mr Beast has an agreement. This small detail has not gone unnoticed by users of social networks, as can be seen in the comments they make criticizing Donaldson.
Other followers of the popular youtuber warn the lucky young woman that the Toyota Corolla she has received as a gift is like poisoned candy, since she will have to take care of the insurance and taxes. But there are also citizens who praise Mr Beast for this gesture and remember that in the past he has already carried out other good deeds that, due to their extravagance, have had great media coverage.
With an estimated fortune of 500 million dollars, according to Forbes magazine, Jimmy Donaldson dedicates part of the profits he obtains from the dissemination of his videos to altruistic acts. At the beginning of the year he paid for a cataract operation for 1,000 people to restore his sight, although he had previously carried out other eccentricities. Some of the best known have involved tipping $10,000 to pizza delivery people or giving away 1,000 turkeys to US citizens to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Now, the most expensive action that the well-known youtuber has carried out was carried out last summer. To celebrate the fact that all six of his YouTube accounts had reached 100 million subscriptions, Donaldson raffled off a private island he had previously purchased after investing $1 million in scratch-off lottery tickets.
