YouTuber MrBeast Helps 1,000 Visually Impaired See For The 1st Time As He Sponsors Their Surgery
Another man said the first thing he wanted to see when his bandages came off was his son, who he said had been his 'rock' throughout his vision problems. 'Seeing him, seeing his face, you know, that's what I miss the most,' he said. As soon as he came out of surgery, his son was there and the two embraced in tears.
YouTube superstar MrBeast is determind to make a mark in this world and he's onto great things. The content creator¡¯s latest video is about him paying for cataract removal for 1,000 people who were blind or near-blind but could not afford the surgery. Some of the participants were also given cash and other donations.
¡°We¡¯re curing a thousand people¡¯s blindness,¡± says MrBeast ¨C real name Jimmy Donaldson ¨C in the Saturday video, which reached over 32 million views as of Sunday afternoon.
Surgeon Jeff Levenson performed the first round of surgeries for people who are legally blind due to the impairment. At first, the surgeries were performed on 40 people. Thereafter, Levenson connected MrBeast to SEE International, a nonprofit which helped him reach even more people, till 1000 surgeries were performed for people across Jamaica, Honduras, Namibia, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, Vietnam and Kenya.
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The video moved internet to tears
The video features touching before-and-after footage of patients seeing with clear vision after finishing the surgery. The YouTuber also gave cash donations and other gifts to some of the participants.
Donaldson is known for his outlandish stunt videos - which include him being buried alive for 50 hours, and another wherein the last person to take their hand off a private jet gets to keep the plane. In addition to being YouTube's most subscribed individual, he is also one of the website's highest earners.
In the video, Beast shows patients getting their bandages removed after surgery, and shows their reaction. For many of them it was the first time they had seen properly in decades. One patient was a man named Charlie, who's deteriorated vision prevented him from working anymore. After receiving the surgery, Charlie is able to see again and MrBeast gives him $10,000.
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'I just haven't been me for the last 62 years,' one patient tells MrBeast in the video, 'I can actually see your face.'
Their reactions on being able to see
Another man said the first thing he wanted to see when his bandages came off was his son, who he said had been his 'rock' throughout his vision problems. 'Seeing him, seeing his face, you know, that's what I miss the most,' he said. As soon as he came out of surgery, his son was there and the two embraced in tears. 'I can see everybody's facial features now,' he said, wiping away a tear. 'It's a little blurry with my tears coming out.'
The surgery used in the video appeared to be Phacoemulsification, which is one of the procedures See specializes in. In the procedure, doctors make a small incision in the eye and vacuum out the eye's clouded cataract lens, and then inserts a new artificial lens. Sufferers from severe cataracts are not entirely blind - they can still see light - but their vision can be so blurry that the basic shapes of objects are indiscernible. Phacoemulsification can cost up to $6,000 for patients without insurance.
Content creator MrBeast goes viral after paying for 1,000 surgeries to cure blindness in patients around the world.
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He also gave away $10K to a select number of patients, $50K to an incoming college student, and a new Tesla to one patient who has always wanted a car. pic.twitter.com/myq24yn9RV
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Another one of patients is a boy named Jeremiah, who had been blind in his right eye since birth. The cataract he was born with prevented the eye from ever seeing light, which meant the surgery only had a 50 percent shot at success, MrBeast explained in the video. Jeremiah broke down in tears after he removed his bandages to find the surgery worked, and then MrBeast presented him with a $50,000 check to put towards his college tuition. 'I don't even think this is real, like I'm waiting to wake up,' he said.
Satchel
MrBeast also featured a teenager named Satchel, who was partially blind since birth and nearly lost all his vision in a go-cart accident. 'All I see is like blur and color, I can barely see the shapes,' Satchel explained. He told MrBeast that he had never been able to drive because of his vision, and that he found himself stuck at home because of it. At the end of the video after the surgery was successful, MrBeast gave Jeremiah a Tesla.
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On its website, See explained that cataracts affect about 65.2million people around the world, and that in 80 percent of those cases vision loss can be moderate to severe. Procedures to cure cataracts like the one detailed in MrBeast's video are relatively simple, but 99 percent of the world doesn't have access to healthcare and services to treat the condition.
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