I spent three hours trapped on a custom Fortnite island

Listen up, gamers: all those VBucks you spent on skins and emotes could find their way back into your wallet after all. Per an announcement released on Monday, Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, is partnering with Epic Games to host an in-game Fortnite competition where the winner will walk away with $1 million.

🎮🏝 Here’s what it’ll look like: On December 17, the popular battle royale game will host “MrBeast’s Extreme Survival Challenge,” a virtual gauntlet of timed challenges taking place on a custom-made island.

• The special game mode will only be open from 12pm ET to 3pm ET, during which Fortnite players can make as many attempts as possible.
• Whoever has the best score on the leaderboard after the three hours are up will earn a cool $1 million in cash.

🤑 Zoom out: Though MrBeast, the world’s most popular YouTuber with over 119 million subscribers, has built his career on giving away money, it seems to have been a pretty good investment strategy. In a recent interview, he revealed that he turned down a $1 billion offer to take over his content empire and its associated businesses (though $10 billion would have reportedly done the trick).

And he’s not the only creator being approached by big money people. A WSJ report published yesterday found some VC firms are seeking out YouTubers to purchase the rights to their back catalog of videos. Two firms in particular – Spotter and Jellysmack – have put aside a combined $1.5 billion towards such deals.