KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 — “There’s my watch, I’ve never seen it before.”

“I just haven’t been me for the past 62 years, I can actually see your face.”

“Oh man, no cloudiness, no blurriness.”

These are three of the awed responses of 1,000 formerly blind or near blind people seeing with clear vision for the first time in many years after coming out of surgery paid for by American YouTube superstar MrBeast.

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The content creator’s latest stunt is paying for cataract removal who were blind or near blind but could not afford surgery, CNN reported.

“We’re curing a thousand people’s blindness,” said MrBeast — whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson — in the video posted on Saturday.

The video which reached over 32 million views as of Sunday afternoon features touching before-and-after footage of patients seeing with clear vision after finishing the surgery.

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The YouTuber also gave cash donations and gifts including a brand new Tesla to some of the participants.

Jeff Levenson, an ophthalmologist and surgeon, worked with Donaldson to perform the first round of surgeries in Jacksonville, Florida.

Levenson has coordinated the Gift of Sight programme for over 20 years, which provides free cataract surgery for uninsured patients who are legally blind due to cataracts.

“Half of all blindness in the world is people who need a 10-minute surgery,” Levenson saidin the video, referring to the cataract removal surgery.

Levenson explained to the CNN that he became inspired to help people access cataract surgery after undergoing his own cataract correction surgery.

“In the days and weeks after my own cataract surgery, I was stunned by how bright and beautiful and vivid the world was,” he said.

“But I was shocked by the idea that there are hundreds of millions, probably 200 million people around the world, who are blind or nearly blind from cataracts and who don’t have access to the surgery.”

Levenson got a call from a member of Donaldson’s team in September. “I had never heard of MrBeast,” he said.

“So I almost hung up. But I gratefully did not hang up.”

They started by calling homeless shelters and free clinics to create a list of patients in the Jacksonville area who needed cataract surgery but could not afford it.

Eventually, they had a group of 40 patients and Levenson performed all of their surgeries in a single day, starting at 7am and ending at 6pm.

Levenson said that patients were in “disbelief that somebody would actually seek them out to rescue them from blindness, and then have the kindness and generosity of spirit to offer the surgery.”

The ophthalmologist also connected Donaldson’s team with SEE International, for which he serves as the chief medical officer.

The non-profit provides free eyecare around the world to patients in need. It helped Donaldson reach even more patients, for a total of 1,000 surgeries completed around three weeks.

The video shows patients receiving the surgery in Jamaica, Honduras, Namibia, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, Vietnam and Kenya.

Levenson said he hopes the video and Donaldson’s generosity inspire “a concerted effort to end needless blindness.”

“If MrBeast can light a fire, and if we can get governmental and private support behind it, we can end half of all the blindness in the world,” he said.

“Without all that much cost, and with incredible gains in human productivity and human potential.”