Jimmy Donaldson's YouTube channel aka MrBeast has half a billion fans. YouTube's biggest influencer has a multi-million dollar personal fortune and a global business empire.
Nevertheless a 54 page court document came to disturb his personal nirvana.
Five contestants on the upcoming Prime Video series Beast Games have filed a lawsuit against MrB2024's production company and Amazon in Los Angeles.
The series is billed as the biggest reality competition series ever, with 1.000 contestants competing for a $5 million prize when the show airs – or if it ever does. The upcoming trial has thrown the whole venture into fits of doubt.
Among the many pages drawn up, the legal document includes claims that contestants "suffered individually and collectively" in an environment that "systematically promoted a culture of misogyny and sexism."
This of course goes against the core of MrBeast's image as one of the nicest and nicest guys on the internet.
The document states that the participants were "malnourished and overtired". Meals were given "sporadically and sparsely" which "jeopardized the health and well-being" of the contestants.
It goes on to say that the defendants "created, allowed and encouraged a culture and practices of sexual harassment in a hostile work environment."
In August, The New York Times spoke to more than a dozen of the show's participants and reported that there were "several hospitalizations" on set, with one person telling the paper that they went more than 20 hours without being fed.
What will happen now;
Mr. MrBeast is no stranger to legal battles and manages to come out unscathed every time.
