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Jimmy Donaldson, better known online as MrBeast, is a YouTuber who is a close friend of the Dream Team. MrBeast often features Dream in videos on his gaming channel, MrBeast Gaming. On his main channel, MrBeast, he is known to give away prizes and money to random people and makes challenges with him, his friends, or other people in which the winner wins a large sum of money or a prize.
MrBeast was believed to have been whitelisted on the Dream SMP on September 29, 2020 to hide a $10,000 Taco Bell gift card.[2] Upon the discovery of the prize, Dream disclosed that it was actually him with Jimmy's skin who hid it, with Jimmy telling him the coordinates to place it. It was later confirmed that Jimmy's Minecraft account is whitelisted on the server when he logged in on December 27, 2020 to hide over $100,000 in gift cards.[3]
MrBeast is also known to do collaborations with the members of the SMP, playing Among Us with Dream, George, Sapnap, and BadBoyHalo, Minecraft with TommyInnit and Purpled, and inviting Quackity to host a challenge. He was also a judge alongside Dream on a Minecraft's Got Talent show hosted by Quackity.
On July 24, 2024, a former MrBeast employee named Dawson French[4] under the username DogPack404 uploaded a video called "I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud" in which he throws a number of accusations at MrBeast, including illegal lotteries, staging videos, predatory advertising, gaslighting, favoritism, elitism, and manipulating results. Before this, he posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account discussing the Kris Tyson allegations, providing "evidence" of Kris's inappropriate behavior relating to minors, and alleged censorship of the situation from MrBeast's team. The video has garnered millions of views and numerous YouTubers have discussed this video, growing heavy suspicion towards YouTubers who have associated with MrBeast. About a week later, Dawson would report that, apparently, a company associated with MrBeast named "MrBeast YouTube LLC" filed a cease-and-desist report on the video. It reads as follows (Note: [obscured text _] is redacted information)
Re: Cease and Desist - Immediate Attention Required
Dear Mr. [obscured text 1],
[obscured text 2] represents your former employer MrBeast YouTube, LLC ("MBYT" or the "Company"). I am writing to you regarding your recent troubling conduct following involuntary termination from employment with the Company on April 19, 2024.
Specifically, it has recently come the Company's attention you have been, among other things:
Disclosing sensitive, confidential, and proprietary information regarding the Company's business operations and content creation methodology breach your contractual and legal obligations to the Company, including contractual post-employment obligations forth the Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement ("Agreement") executed you in connection with your employment;
This grew speculation and accusations that MrBeast is silencing the accusations to protect his brand. A day later, he reported, apparently, getting another cease-and-desist report, this time as a "final warning", from the same company supposedly associated with MrBeast. It reads as follows (Note: [obscured text _] is redacted information):
Re: Cease and Desist - Final Warning
Dear Mr. [obscured text 3],
This firm, [obscured text 4], has recently been retained by MrBeast YouTube, LLC ("Mr. Beast" or the "Company") and its founder Jimmy Donaldson regarding the unsettling news that you have embarked on a campaign to disparage Mr. Beast as a company and defame Jimmy Donaldson as an individual. Not only are your statements about Mr. Beast and Jimmy Donaldson untrue, they also violate the clear, binding, enforceable terms of your Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement with Mr. Beast, dated March 25, 2024 (the "NDA Agreement"), which you have shown in videos posted to the internet.
On August 7, 2024, DogPack404 would then upload a video titled "I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath". This video is presented mainly through another MrBeast ex-employee named Jake Weddle and further adds to the allegations, accusing MrBeast of exploitation, blackmailing, worker mistreatment, pollution, employing known sex offenders, and covering up information. Weddle mainly discusses a scrapped version of the "I Survived 50 Hours In A Maximum Security Prison" video that he partook in, which took place in a confined room with various appliances instead of a jail cell, and supposedly was 30 days instead of 50 hours. In this version, Weddle apparently earned 10k for each day he stayed in the confined room. Weddle mentioned that he didn't sit through all 30 days due to mental health issues, terrible conditions, and sustaining injuries, and earned $100,000 for the days he made it through. Weddle would then continue discussing these allegations in a video titled "The Real Reason I left MrBeast (Bigger, Longer, Uncut)". DogPack404's second video would gain over 6 million views in less than 24 hours.
On August 29, 2024, DogPack404 would then upload a video titled "MrBeast's Secret CEO".
"Survive 100 Days In Nuclear Bunker, Win $500,000" drama[]
After the release of DogPack404's video that accused MrBeast of numerous things, people began to notice that comments referencing the allegations that were mentioned in DogPack404's video disappeared after a short while or made inaccessible on MrBeast's "Survive 100 Days In Nuclear Bunker, Win $500,000" video.[5][6][7] While the reasoning for this is unknown, people have alleged that this is done out of censorship and to silence the discussion on the allegations. Any workarounds for this were also hidden on the video. Not long after this, YouTuber Keemstar would make a since-deleted post on X (formerly Twitter) that apparently showed around 500k dislikes on the aforementioned MrBeast video. This post would go viral and he would follow this up with another post apologizing for the post on the aforementioned video having 500k dislikes, stating that it came from a third-party app that other YouTubers have said is not to be trusted. This other post showed the dislike count of the aforementioned video having around 4k dislikes. This would get Keemstar into controversy as people would alleged that the "real numbers" of the dislike count were fraudulent and that Keemstar was being paid by MrBeast. Keemstar would later make a response video stating that he wasn't being paid to post the "real numbers" of the dislike count and further reinstating that the former post of the dislike count being 500k dislikes used an untrustworthy third-party app for the dislike numbers. While the actual dislike count of the video is unknown due to YouTube removing the dislike count, it's been speculated that the dislike count is higher than the "real numbers" Keemstar posted on X, estimated to be higher than 1 million.
"Beast Games" allegations and lawsuit[]
On September 16, 2024, a lawsuit will filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court by 5 contestants of the upcoming reality show "Beast Games" produced by Mrbeast's production company MRB2024, Amazon, and Off One's Base LLC.[8] The lawsuit features 14 complaints including "Failure to Pay Minimum Wages", "Failure to Pay Overtime", "Sexual Harassment", "Failure to Prevent Harassment", "Failure to Provide Uninterrupted Meal Breaks", "Failure to Provide Uninterrupted Rest Breaks", and "Failure to Pay Wages Promptly Upon Termination".[9]
Rosanna Pansino, a popular baking YouTuber, had led the effort to expose Beast Games and bring to light all of the allegations against the show and MrBeast himself. Pansino originally met Donaldson in 2019, and was featured in Jimmy's "$1,000,000 Influencer Tournament!", more commonly known as "Creator Games 3", where she was "unfairly edited" to appear that she had performed worse than she actually had.[10] Once Pansino made that accusation, she claims to have received "very serious, scary", "very specific", and "very targeted" death threats.[11]
In July 2024, Pansino began uploading videos to her TikTok about Beast Games and everything she had been hearing.[12] She's attempting to create a "safe space" for contestants to share any personal experiences concerning the show.[13] She claims that "a little over 200" people have reached to her, and that their stories include claims that they "didn't have access to their [life-saving] medication"[14] and that they got "trampled".[15]
In August 2024, the New York Times wrote a piece titled "Willing to Die for MrBeast (and $5 Million)" where they claimed that "over a dozen people who participated in the first installment of “Beast Games” said that they had not received adequate food or medical care, and that some competitors had suffered injuries from the physical challenges".[16] They also stated that "Some contestants left the competition arena on stretchers, a contestant said; though it was unclear if any of those contestants had faced serious medical conditions. Another described watching fellow contestants vomiting and appearing to pass out. There were several hospitalizations."[16]
They also received a statement from a MrBeast spokesperson who said that shooting “was unfortunately complicated by the CrowdStrike incident, extreme weather and other unexpected logistical and communications issues.” and that Donaldson had since "started a formal review and had “taken steps to ensure that we learn from this experience.””[16]
Gambling[]
Rosanna Pansino, released a video called MrBeast is a CRIMINAL (Leaked Video) on September 26, 2024. Here she showed with evidence on Logan Paul's podcast clip of MrBeast saying that he gamble at the age of 20. Which is illegal in North Carolina since one must be 21 to gamble.
