MrBeast jokingly said he "burned down 20,000,000 trees"—of course, not seriously. He shared this as an April Fools' post on April 1. In the same tweet, he quipped about blinding 1,000 children.

Sharing the progress of the project, Mr Beast noted that the attendance in schools was already up by 10 per cent. "To help get kids out of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa we started ...

"How many kids did you blind mr beast?" asked a fan. MrBeast took the joke in stride, replying that he had blinded a thousand so that he had more to cure: Both the April Fool's jokes about burning ...