Now he's 27, and over a hundred million people watch every single upload.
Somewhere in between, the comments almost broke him.
"Kill yourself." "This sucks." Comments like that used to wreck his whole day after 50 hours of work.
Then something shifted.
He started sorting every comment into two piles. Noise. And truth.
One piece of criticism changed how he does his biggest charity videos. Someone said he never showed people how to actually help.
So the next video, giving 2,000 people prosthetic legs, included exactly how viewers could donate their old ones. Recycled and given to someone else for a hundred bucks instead of five thousand.
That's the difference between letting hate in and letting feedback work for you.
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