MrBeast Went Out Of His Way To Meet Current Girlfriend Thea Booysen
Ever since MrBeast passed Pewdiepie and became YouTube's biggest content creator with 132 million subscribers, it looks like he is everywhere. In fact, a lot of creators on YouTube are trying to capitalize on this trend with thumbnails and video topics that are eerily similar to the stuff MrBeast uploads on his channel.
Of course, with so many rabid fans and followers, MrBeast has plenty of admirers. It turns out that he has a specific checklist for potential partners, and his current girlfriend ticks all the boxes.
MrBeast And His Girlfriend Met In South Africa
MrBeast recently went on an Antarctica expedition with his friends and YouTube crew to film a 50-hour challenge video. But it was not their first attempt going there, he said in the podcast.
The first trip got canceled because every single person in the Antarctica base tested positive for Covid. So they all had to be med-evaced out.
“We were about to board the plane and fly out and do 50 hours in Antarctica. And now it's a wasteland. There's no one there to clear off the ice runway or anything.”
So they spent a few days chilling in South Africa instead.
And on one of those days, they were at a friend's place having dinner when a friend of the friend decided to join them for a short while.
That girl eventually became MrBeast's girlfriend.
MrBeast's Girlfriend Is A Published Author
When this friend of his friend walked in, MrBeast was immediately gobsmacked.
“I was like holy sh*t this girl is beautiful,” he said. “But I have to go through the test.”
He elaborated that he doesn't get along with women if they don't love learning and don't have a hobby.
There's just certain things where if you have these traits we'll get along really well, and if you don't it's impossible for us to hang out... So I had to put her through the ringer and start asking questions.
And he did.
He asked her what she did. She said she was an author.
And then they talked more and he discovered she has multiple degrees and loves watching documentaries.
In fact, his girlfriend is currently getting a Neuropsychology degree just for fun. Mainly because, like a lot of other people, including celebrities who invested in crypto and Bitcoin, MrBeast's girlfriend also 'invested in crypto and did really well.'
“So she doesn't even need [a job]. “
MrBeast Flew To South Africa Every Few Weeks To Meet Her
Since he broke up with his ex-girlfriend and before he met his current girlfriend, MrBeast had put 40 different girls through the same test (in his head, of course, it would be obnoxious otherwise).
“I had these 10 things that if I meet a girl who's beautiful and they have these 10 traits, we're gonna be literally best friends. She [his girlfriend] checked every single one of them.”
But the problem was he lives in the United States and she is in South Africa. And they could only spend 20 minutes hanging out the first time before he had to fly back.
So he found excuses to speak to her. Even asking her to send him her book so he could read it before he decided to fly to South Africa again just to meet her.
“It's not like 'Oh, let's just hang out',” MrBeast said. “It's like 'Hey, can I spend 30 hours on a plane to see you?' and then I instantly have to spend 30 hours the next day to fly back because I have a company to run.”
He flew four times to meet her.
It's hard to get a visa from South Africa to the States, MrBeast explained. Even a tourist visa can take up to two years.
So they found a website where you could book a visa appointment if someone canceled theirs. And then they hired someone to refresh the website all day long and book a slot if one opened up.
Long story short, MrBeast's girlfriend was able to fly to North Carolina (where MrBeast lives) much sooner.
Who Is MrBeast's Girlfriend?
MrBeast's girlfriend is Thea Booysen.
She was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, and is a Twitch streamer with 24,000 followers on the platform. She mainly plays games, like The Witcher, on her channel and goes by the online name 'TheaBeasty'.
She is also the author of YA novel The Marked Children. Although it's not very well known and hasn't made her a fortune, unlike some other influencers and sitcom stars who made a fortune after their book got onto the NYT bestseller list.
"I knew of MrBeast. I knew the great things he was doing, but I was also – from a psychological perspective – curious. Are these people playing it up? Do they have an alter ego?" Booysen said in the Wide Awake Podcast about her meeting MrBeast.
The two began dating in February 2022 and since then Booysen has accompanied him to the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award (where he won the 'Favorite Male Creator' award) and even had a cameo in his YouTube challenge video '100 Girls vs. 100 Boys for $500,000'.
"He really has a lot of things going in the background where he helps people,” Booysen said. “He won't talk about this, but I get to brag for him.”
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