Posting this here but it could go on this boards favorite forum as well, and I may cross post to have a different conversation, but this IS the largest YouTube channel and many here have children that it is targeted towards.

I keep up with kids entertainment so I know what is ok and not ok for my kids to watch so have been aware of MrBeast for a while, but didn't feel comfortable letting kids watch the channel. Always felt there was something off about the dude. He seems ultra slimy. Dont let my kids watch it so it didn't really matter.

A while back, one of his friends and regulars on the show came out as trans, leaving a wife and kid behind. Not going to get deep in to my thoughts on that here, but not really good for a kids show, IMO. you can find MRB discussing kids as his target audience on several occasions.

Fast forward a while and it recently came out that the trans cast member has a fetish for child p*** art and had been messaging minors and spreading pron in his discord server that was essentially him and a handful of minors. . REALLY not good for a kids show, especially seeing as the target audience is kids and the stars would have access to kids, especially through social media and discord. In a video that has been taken down, art by a notorious CP artist can be seen in the living room of the now fired employee and Mr Beast looks directly at it. This leads in to discussions of how much he knew about the tendencies of his friend and employee. Knowing about his friends proclivities and still allowing him access to the followers etc would be absolutely disgusting.

Outside of the above, MrBeast is acutely aware of how kids work psychologically and uses that to essentially manipulate kids in to subscribing and buying his merch and other products, as well as essentially lying to his audience about where his contestants come from and the chance of actually winning anything, and essentially has illegal lotteries on his channel.

The video attached goes over some and does provide receipts for a lot of the above.

I don't particularly want to get in to a debate about the trans issue here because that will cause the thread to devolve, more just make unsuspecting parents aware of just how shady this dudes channel is and what may have been going down with the people involved there as well.

Never let your kids watch YouTube without proper supervision.

Haven't seen the video, but I could never stand this guy for some reason. Something about him just bugs me. Seems like an incredibly fake narcissist.

At least now my dislike proves justified.

Someone couldn't have told me this BEFORE I paid $27 for a 'Beast Style' Burger Combo from Mr. Beast Burger for lunch today?

Thank you for posting this, Sea Speed. My kids have never watched this dude, oddly, but he always struck me as false. The self proclaimed 'good ones' often seem to be the ones you need to keep an eye on.

The child grooming aspect is one thing but lots of allegations of game rigging, false lotteries, false advertising, misleading the fanbase, etc.

This one caught my eye and been following it fairly closely. There is always a feeding frenzy when someone like this gets caught doing something naughty and most of it tends to be overblown. There is a lot of smoke on this one though and with the pedophile tie in.....let's just say Mr. Beast is absolutely lawyered up by now. He is launching his own third party investigation into the pedophile thing which is probably the best decision he can make right now optics wise. Either way, I think this one has legs and fairly certain he is going to get knocked down a peg or six.

Been a wild month in the online persona world. Pedophiles coming to light again. Katt Williams is being proven right again, albeit tangentially.

On the personal side, also could never stand him. Always had the super fake savior energy IMO. Which is one of my bigger pet peeves, period.

The dichotomy of the Dr disrespect dude getting canceled by every major YouTuber immediately vs Chris here being given the benefit of the doubt is pretty eye opening. Hmmm, I wonder what the difference is there.

never watched a single video of his, but hear his name all the time. so he just gives crap away to kids. that's the whole premise of his channel?

AggieOO said:

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never watched a single video of his, but hear his name all the time. so he just gives crap away to kids. that's the whole premise of his channel?

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I would hardly say he just gives away to kids. He has a lot of different types of content. He does give stuff away, and sometimes it's to kids, but most of the time it's to adults or people in need. Some of his more famous give aways include giving away thousands of dollars to random homeless, giving away houses, giving massive tips (thousands of dollars) to waiters/waitresses, etc. Most of his content, though, are different challenges (ranging from stand in this circle for 100 days to a full on recreation of Squid Games without the deaths) or him surviving some sort of psychologically straining challenge (like burying himself alive for a week).

Personally, I'll give him (Mr. Beast, not Chris) the benefit of the doubt for now and take a wait and see approach. I feel like he seems like a good dude who likes to help people. Granted, he is certainly getting something out of helping people, too, but I don't really have a problem with someone giving away a million dollars to make a million dollars. You're still helping someone. I think most likely he's in a tough situation where a childhood friend turns out to be a creep. It's pretty easy from the outside to see this stuff, but we often have blinders on for people we have known our whole lives.

Also, I am skeptical of anyone who is making a Youtube video about this right now. Videos about Mr. Beast are already their own niche area on YT. Even before this, you could get a million views by making reaction videos to Mr. Beast. There absolutely will be people who try to capitalize off this controversy.

All that said, I still listen to Thriller. It could come out that he has been fully aware the whole time, and has been protecting Chris. I just don't think that's a foregone conclusion yet.

AustinAg2K said:

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AggieOO said:

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never watched a single video of his, but hear his name all the time. so he just gives crap away to kids. that's the whole premise of his channel?

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I would hardly say he just gives away to kids. He has a lot of different types of content. He does give stuff away, and sometimes it's to kids, but most of the time it's to adults or people in need. Some of his more famous give aways include giving away thousands of dollars to random homeless, giving away houses, giving massive tips (thousands of dollars) to waiters/waitresses, etc. Most of his content, though, are different challenges (ranging from stand in this circle for 100 days to a full on recreation of Squid Games without the deaths) or him surviving some sort of psychologically straining challenge (like burying himself alive for a week).

Personally, I'll give him (Mr. Beast, not Chris) the benefit of the doubt for now and take a wait and see approach. I feel like he seems like a good dude who likes to help people. Granted, he is certainly getting something out of helping people, too, but I don't really have a problem with someone giving away a million dollars to make a million dollars. You're still helping someone. I think most likely he's in a tough situation where a childhood friend turns out to be a creep. It's pretty easy from the outside to see this stuff, but we often have blinders on for people we have known our whole lives.

Also, I am skeptical of anyone who is making a Youtube video about this right now. Videos about Mr. Beast are already their own niche area on YT. Even before this, you could get a million views by making reaction videos to Mr. Beast. There absolutely will be people who try to capitalize off this controversy.

All that said, I still listen to Thriller. It could come out that he has been fully aware the whole time, and has been protecting Chris. I just don't think that's a foregone conclusion yet.

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This has hit Beast from two different sides though. The pedo thing is one side and looks to be pretty damn bad so far. But then you have the allegations of the video stuff itself. Of rigging the games from the start. Of holding false lotteries. Of unfair and even cruel treatment of the contestants. And general manipulation of contestants and the fan base to all sorts of degrees. I don't think anything really has come out about his philanthropic stuff but his games side and challenges look really questionable now.

Definitely a wait and see approach but again this one seems to have legs to me so at the least, I am doubtful it goes away quietly. The general consensus online I've seen so far seems to be 100% guilty verdict all around already by pretty much everyone I've seen. Beasts reputation is already taking a massive loss no matter what at this point.

If TexAgs users were in charge of my content filter, I'd be staring at a banana in my kitchen.

Eliminatus said:

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AustinAg2K said:

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AggieOO said:

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never watched a single video of his, but hear his name all the time. so he just gives crap away to kids. that's the whole premise of his channel?

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I would hardly say he just gives away to kids. He has a lot of different types of content. He does give stuff away, and sometimes it's to kids, but most of the time it's to adults or people in need. Some of his more famous give aways include giving away thousands of dollars to random homeless, giving away houses, giving massive tips (thousands of dollars) to waiters/waitresses, etc. Most of his content, though, are different challenges (ranging from stand in this circle for 100 days to a full on recreation of Squid Games without the deaths) or him surviving some sort of psychologically straining challenge (like burying himself alive for a week).

Personally, I'll give him (Mr. Beast, not Chris) the benefit of the doubt for now and take a wait and see approach. I feel like he seems like a good dude who likes to help people. Granted, he is certainly getting something out of helping people, too, but I don't really have a problem with someone giving away a million dollars to make a million dollars. You're still helping someone. I think most likely he's in a tough situation where a childhood friend turns out to be a creep. It's pretty easy from the outside to see this stuff, but we often have blinders on for people we have known our whole lives.

Also, I am skeptical of anyone who is making a Youtube video about this right now. Videos about Mr. Beast are already their own niche area on YT. Even before this, you could get a million views by making reaction videos to Mr. Beast. There absolutely will be people who try to capitalize off this controversy.

All that said, I still listen to Thriller. It could come out that he has been fully aware the whole time, and has been protecting Chris. I just don't think that's a foregone conclusion yet.

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This has hit Beast from two different sides though. The pedo thing is one side and looks to be pretty damn bad so far. But then you have the allegations of the video stuff itself. Of rigging the games from the start. Of holding false lotteries. Of unfair and even cruel treatment of the contestants. And general manipulation of contestants and the fan base to all sorts of degrees. I don't think anything really has come out about his philanthropic stuff but his games side and challenges look really questionable now.

Definitely a wait and see approach but again this one seems to have legs to me so at the least, I am doubtful it goes away quietly. The general consensus online I've seen so far seems to be 100% guilty verdict all around already by pretty much everyone I've seen. Beasts reputation is already taking a massive loss no matter what at this point.

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I started watching the video above, but stopped because most of it is nothing new. It's just packaged in a way to make it seem scandalous. Mr. Beast using the same people in the videos is well known, and frankly, kind of obvious if you've watched 5 or 6 of his videos. There are a ton of podcasts with him and he seems like an open book with regards to how he makes his videos. In quite a few interviews, he mentions how his contestants aren't really random, because he needs people who are good on camera. If they were truly random, then most of the videos would suck because the people would just sit there and be like, "Uhhhhhhhhh......" To someone who doesn't watch him regularly, it might seem like a big surprise that Mack is in multiple videos. To someone who watches YouTube regularly, you know that Mack is a YouTuber himself and had his own channel before joining Mr. Beast. When I watch with my kids, they'll point it out. "Oh, that's the guy from XYZ."

Also, in my view, Mr. Beast is just another form of reality TV. His content is about as real as The Kardashians, or The Bachelorette. If you thought it was all 100% real, that's kind of on you. Guess what, his name isn't really Mr. Beast, either.

As I mentioned above, I wouldn't trust any YouTube video exposing him any more than I'd trust him. That YouTuber is trying to get views and is going to be editing the video to do the exact same thing Jimmy is doing. Hell, it wouldn't shock to find out that Jimmy made that whole video himself as a way to capture the, "I hate Mr. Beast market."

I find the stuff with Chris far more disturbing than a random video on YouTube claiming his challenges aren't real. Guess what, American Idol isn't real either. Neither is American Ninja Warrior, the Voice, or any of the hundreds of reality TV programs out there.

Admittedly, I only watched the first 10 or 15 minutes of the video above, so maybe there's something bigger later in the video, but what I saw wasn't really shocking at all, and most has already been talked about by Jimmy himself on podcasts.

Agree to disagree

I don't know a lot about Mr. Beast but I agree it very much seems like "videos about Mr. Beast" are simply doing the same thing Mr. Beast videos do -- pandering for views/subs/likes.

That is social media.

Sea Speed said:

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I think the illegal gambling stuff, psychological manipulation stuff and certainly allowing your pedo friend to hang around are are big items.

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Semi-rigged giveaways and "psychological manipulation" have been going on in kids' advertising since the dawn of time.

I know nothing about the pedo friend thing, though it does seem he has distanced himself from him/her?

I dunno, just seems like this thing is... exactly what this thing looked like from day 1. A guy doing wacky and extreme things that may or may not be 100% real in order to ramp up his subscriber base.

Parents should be monitoring the videos being watched like always... and if your kids are messaging back and forth with "celebs" online or in chat discords unsupervised... well just like that wasn't OK to let them do in the 90's, 2000's and 2010's -- its not OK to let them do it in the 2020's.

Aggie Therapist said:

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If TexAgs users were in charge of my content filter, I'd be staring at a banana in my kitchen.

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too phallic. might turn you gay or trans.