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Team Seas, stylized as #TeamSeas, is an international collaborative fundraiser project run by YouTubers MrBeast and Mark Rober as a follow up to TeamTrees. They aim to raise 30 million dollars, which would allow them to remove 30,000,000 pounds (14,000,000 kg) of marine debris from the ocean by the end of 2021. The fundraiser is partnered with Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup.

Background

The preceding fundraiser, Team Trees, was started on October 25, 2019 by MrBeast and Mark Rober. They set to raise 20 million dollars, which they achieved. As of the start date of Team Seas, donations are still able to be made on the Team Trees website and planting progress is updated there.

Team Seas aims to remove 30,000,000 pounds (14,000,000 kg) marine debris from the ocean by the end of 2021 by raising 30 million dollars. The project was mass released over the internet on many different social media platforms on Friday October 29th, 2021, at 1 PM (PT), with thousands of creators releasing content based on what they make, but staying with the topic of oceans and waste. On YouTube, 5,500 different channels together released 10,000 videos that were tagged with the hashtag #TeamSeas and carried the Youtube Giving fundraiser option. Most creators explained the purpose of Team Seas and convinced viewers to donate to TeamSeas throughout the entirety of their videos, while some added a short explanatory segment in theirs. Videos on TikTok also featured a donation sticker for the campaign.

MrBeast released a video on October 29, 2021, showing his team cleaning the polluted beaches of Bajos de Haina, Dominican Republic as volunteers for Ocean Conservancy. Half of the video showed the experience of the volunteering for the cause and the other half concerned the project and its details.

Mark Rober released a video on the same day, featuring the Ocean Cleanup's Intereceptor robot. In addition to being set up as a pick-up competition between the robot and a human laborer on the beach, it also included a segment on how and why the trash ends up in rivers from underserved communities and describes the actions being taken by the government and the United Nations to lessen marine pollution.

Spread

Thousands of people across the internet and on social media have made content about TeamSeas to spread the word and support the project. These include content creators from 145 different countries with a combined follower count of more than 1 billion followers.

Donations

On October 29, 2021, Royal Caribbean International donated $100,000 to the effort. YouTube Originals agreed to match $400,000 of donations. The Bikoff Foundation matched every donation on October 30, 2021 for up to 1 million pounds. On November 1, 2021, Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify, donated $1,200,001, beating the $1,000,001 he donated to Team Trees. Dogecoin enabled donations through the currency and is auctioning a piece of NFT art, with all proceeds donated to the project. On November 2, 2021, Patreon, matched every donation on November 2, 2021 for up to 500,000 pounds and donated on November 3, 2021.

Notes

1. No videos or segments were paid for by TeamTrees.

References

1. ^ "MrBeast Now Wants to Save the Oceans With 'Team Seas' and Internet is Here for it". News18. 2021-10-31. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
2. ^ Detta, Rachel (2021-11-01). "Mark Rober and Mr. Beast Back With Team Seas". Rock 95. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
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4. "MrBeast And Mark Rober's #TeamSeas Is Raising $30 Million For Ocean Cleanup". Tubefilter. 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
5. Spangler, Todd; Spangler, Todd (2021-10-29). "YouTubers MrBeast, Mark Rober Reteam for 'TeamSeas' Charity Fundraiser to Clean Up Trash From Marine Environments". Variety. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
6. "You Were The CHOSEN One - Teracube" – via www.youtube.com.
7. "Help #TeamSeas clean up the ocean!". Tiltify. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
8. "TeamSeas Will Be Transformational for Our Ocean—Let's Go!". Ocean Conservancy. 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2021-10-30.
9. Donaldson, Jimmy (29 October 2021). "I Cleaned the World's Dirtiest Beach #TeamSeas". Retrieved 3 November 2021.
10. "MrBeast launches TeamSeas to topple Team Trees 20 million planting goal". Dexerto. 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
11. Rober, Mark (29 October 2021). "This Robot Eats Trash #TeamSeas". YouTube. Mark Rober. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
12. ^ Krishnamurthy, Chaitra (2021-10-30). "'Team Seas' by MrBeast and Mark Rober receives millions in donations". HITC. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
13. "YouTubers MrBeast, Mark Rober Reteam for 'TeamSeas' Charity Fundraiser to Clean Up Trash From Marine Environments". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
14. "Help us remove 30 million pounds of trash by January 1st, 2022 - Join #TeamSeas". teamseas.org. Retrieved 2021-10-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
15. "TeamSeas - 🚨 ALERT: The Bikoff Foundation is matching every #TeamSeas donation today up to 1 MILLION POUNDS. Let's goooo smash some trash! teamseas.org | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
16. MrBeast (2021-10-30). "The Bikoff Foundation is matching every TeamSeas donation today up to $1,000,000!!! (I freaken love them) GO DONATE! EVERY DOLLAR IS NOW 2 POUNDS OF TRASH OUT OF THE OCEAN!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 2021-10-31. Retrieved 2021-11-02 – via Twitter.
17. "Help us remove 30 million pounds of trash by January 1st, 2022 - Join #TeamSeas". teamseas.org. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
18. "#TeamTrees". teamtrees.org. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
19. "#TeamSeas with Dogecoin". Dogecoin Foundation. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
20. OpenSea. "DOGECOIN #TEAMSEAS - Doge: Proof of WOW". OpenSea. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
21. "Patreon [@Patreon] (2021-11-2) "Let's go! #TeamSeas @MrBeast @MarkRober @teamseas"". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-11-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

See also

• Team Trees

External links

• Official website

• 2021 in internet culture
• Hashtags
• Fundraising events
• Internet activism
• Charity fundraisers