Mr. Beast Jimmy Donaldson 5/7/98 MrBeast & Ryan Trahan - Youth Charity - Fundraisers - Philanthropy - Digital Media

[neonzx]

Here's his contact info, please find out and let us know: contact@mrbeastbusiness.com.

As if he is going to be honest.
So silly, you.

[sugar magnolia]

Luke,

I would like an accounting. How much goes out to charity and how much he stuffs in his pockets.

Why? If he's doing good things and helping people with his own money isn't that enough? What percentage of your income goes to charity?

[Foggy]

Earthlings are so entertaining, I could watch them all day. And here's the thing about Earthlings - they are never just one thing. They're complicated.

[neonzx]

Luke,

I would like an accounting. How much goes out to charity and how much he stuffs in his pockets.

Why? If he's doing good things and helping people with his own money isn't that enough? What percentage of your income goes to charity?

I don't earn my money by claiming to.be a philanthropist. So my charity is not published for clicks.
And the dude comes off as weird. He took on the moniker "mr beast".

[Suranis]

Part of the story has been indirectly confirmed by him blaming something else...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/2/24212 ... rowdstrike

MrBeast blames terrible Beast Games conditions on the CrowdStrike outage
/ Contestants say food, water, prescription medicine and clean underwear were withheld — but the YouTuber is blaming external factors.

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.
Aug 3, 2024, 12:12 AM GMT+1

The CrowdStrike global IT outage that downed some 8.5 million Windows PCs, halting flights and affecting hospitals, banks and more, is now apparently also a scapegoat for the terrible conditions at the set of a reality game show competition put on by mega-popular YouTuber MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, with $5 million on the line.

The New York Times is reporting that after 2,000 contestants arrived at Allegiant Stadium this July, they were barely fed and didn’t receive their prescription medication or clean underwear on time — despite providing it to the organizers themselves. (The 1,000 contestants who make it through can return for the Beast Games Amazon show, but this segment is for Donaldson’s YouTube channel.)

The Times’ story is filled with anecdotes from over a dozen contestants who say they were mistreated by organizers, like this:

One contestant said she had initially been denied the food she required to take her medication and had been told by staff members that she didn’t actually need to eat. After asking repeatedly, she was given half a banana.

But MrBeast isn’t apologizing, at least not yet. In fact, he’s not even quoted in the Times. Instead, the NYT received a text message from a spokesperson for MrBeast that blamed external factors, including CrowdStrike, instead of any poor planning on its part:

“In a text message, a spokesperson for MrBeast said the shoot “was unfortunately complicated by the CrowdStrike incident, extreme weather and other unexpected logistical and communications issues.” The spokesperson said MrBeast had started a formal review and had “taken steps to ensure that we learn from this experience.”

This is just the latest such event that lured fans to a location without enough logistical support, of course — I immediately flashed back to accusations around Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge, and of course there’s Fyre Festival.

It’s also not the first time in recent days that MrBeast has let an anonymous spokeperson handle bad press: he had one apologize for his younger self to the Associated Press earlier this week.

[Luke]

New Mr. Beast video! And to bring the thread title together, this has an appearance by Ryan Trahan!

This one is nuts and fun -- two people who have never met have to spend 100 days in a nuclear bunker underground to win $500,000.

Survive 100 Days In Nuclear Bunker, Win $500,000
MrBeast 308M subscribers
45,194,869 views Aug 3, 2024 #1 on Trending
This video was really fun to make, I hope you enjoy it

As a long-time television producer, I am familiar with the challenges and problems of shooting 2,000 contestants at an event like in Allegiant Stadium this July. Wrangling 2,000 people is a logistical nightmare. As you'll see below, it looks like one problem was contestants turning on each other.

The CrowdStrike global IT outage downed 8.5 million Windows PCs, halting flights and affecting hospitals, banks, and more. Mr Beast uses a lot of third-party vendors, and travel & logistics were by other companies, so it seems reasonable that was a big issue.

Too also, reality show contestants are notorious for complaining/whining for clout, so keep that in mind. In that Verve article, the writer remembered the problems with the Netflix Squid Game reality competition, and we all read about the Fyre Festival.

This is just the latest such event that lured fans to a location without enough logistical support, of course — I immediately flashed back to accusations around Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge, and of course there’s Fyre Festival.

This initial show wasn't part of the Amazon series (they weren't involved). The top 1,000 from the Vegas competition will be on the Amazon show. So some who weren't picked will have an axe to grind. I bet this experience is much more common:

Nancy Libby, a Navy veteran from California who said she was one of the last people eliminated, told AP that she applied after seeing a casting call on Facebook. Her daughters watch MrBeast videos, she said, and she’d already planned to take off work anyway.

On-set conditions met her expectations. Libby said she was instructed by recruiters beforehand to watch previous MrBeast challenges to gain some understanding of the experience. Because of that, she said, she was unsurprised by meals of oatmeal and nights spent sleeping on the floor.

Libby said that “crowd control” was an issue at times and that more staffing could help ensure competitors do not injure their counterparts. But Libby said the MrBeast team appeared to take safety seriously and that she only witnessed rude behavior from outside contractors.

“Sometimes when you run things that are first of their kind, things come up that you can’t foresee,” Libby said. “I think that the template was there for a really good competition.”

[Suranis]

By most accounts, the production companies involved (Amazon and MrBeast’s company from South Carolina) were not prepared for the logistical challenges of a competition involving 2,000 people. In fact, many contestants assumed the conditions of the production (including hours of waiting at various stages) were psychological endurance tests. That does not appear to be the case.

A number of concerned friends and relatives have chimed in on the comments of this story to express concern for their loved ones. Serious issues appear to have been isolated, and not unexpected given the fact 2,000 people were participating in the taping.

Accounts from contestants range from people having a great time to something quite different.

One contestant noted production staff hired locally were treated poorly, with some working shifts in excess of 24 hours in a row; medications (such as inhalers, contact lenses and feminine hygiene products) were surrendered, which caused concern among the production’s medical staff, with some encouraging contestants to hide their meds in their clothes to avoid detection; the 2,000 trash bags used to conceal show uniforms were thrown away at Allegiant (MrBeast is known as an advocate for saving the planet); due to the large number of contestants, waits could be an hour for elevators at hotels (including for registered guests not involved with the show); contestants were asked to give the production team several pair of undergarments, which were not returned upon disqualification; there were not enough busses to transport the contestants to Allegiant; contestants were not allowed to leave their hotel rooms, several were caught in the pool at Rio and were eliminated from the competition; contestants were also eliminated if they were caught with their production wristbands flipped to show the MrBeast logo; food consisted of what’s described as “hideous porridge.”

Another contestant says: “No medications, no undergarments despite supplying five days of. Only ‘electrolytes’ were Gatorade handed out on the second day in small batch that ran out quickly and people were fighting over, hoarding. Ran out of meals for people. Water would run out. Was completely not a safe space. Many of us knew it would be mentally challenging, but the danger we were put in and lack of care from staff wasn’t expected. No clear communication between staff either, making it worse.”

Questions about the fairness of the competition have also been raised. The 2,000 contestants were divided into groups of 400. Some of the contestants reportedly stacked the deck in their favor by creating teams of mostly young, strong men. The first group eliminated was largely older people and women.

Some of the biggest lessons here are: 1) People can go through the same experience, but can describe that experience very differently, 2) NDAs are pretty much meaningless, at least in Las Vegas. Nothing happens in our town without us knowing about it.

If you’re a parent, don’t worry, the kids will be fine. If you’re a MrBeast fan, you’ll love how he was greeted when he entered the stadium in his black satin tuxedo, the contestants lost their minds. If you’re the Las Vegas Review-Journal, you suck.



MrBeast in his aforementioned suit with one of his “Squid Game”-inspired henchpersons.

Update (7/21/24): Here’s some additional information provided by a member of the “Beast Games” production team: “Can confirm five days of medication and undergarments, most of which have been lost and not adequately tracked by production. Limited amounts of Gatorade on-hand started on Friday. It did run out, but there was water. They did run out of food on Friday. Personal/feminine products initially were non-existent, but they got some supplies later. Undergarments are 100% lost because they weren’t adequately tracked when surrendered. Personally spoke with a young lady contestant who self-eliminated after about 14 hours because she had to eat and take medicine which had been lost. She was crying, but otherwise O.K. I’m basically just confirming much of your reporting to say in my opinion there was a complete failure of planning on the part of production. And, sure, some people are up for it, but I’m an adult and recognize it’s not a safe environment. Good luck to eliminated contestants when trying to retrieve their luggage and personal belongings including phones. All that is stored at the Rio in a meeting room without any organization. So think 2-3 bags per person times 2,000 and looking for your bag. Needle in a haystack.”

A family member of a contestant claims, “On day one, contestants went over 24 hours without any medication which led to the seizure of a contestant on the first day. No medical staff was on site and it took about 5-8 minutes to arrive to the scene. Contestants had to do crowd control to make room for medical. Contestants were supposed to receive medication on Thursday morning/midday, the challenge began finally around 5:00 a.m. Friday due to lack of coordination. Medication still had not been delivered to contestants until 4:00 p.m. Friday. Contestants slept on ground with sleeping bags.”

We have heard similar reports from various sources about the sleeping arrangements at Allegiant Stadium. Contestants who were in all three phases of the elimination slept two nights in sleeping bags on the field.

Rounding out the inside scoop on the three competitions, the third and final night’s challenge has been described as a “capture the flag” game with a race, “similar to the previous suitcase game,” per a contestant.

Update (7/22/24): We finally got our hands on a photo of the game as it unfolded inside Allegiant Stadium.

Exclusive AF, as the kids say.

The growing number of comments about this story from contestants is enlightening and somewhat alarming. Others are saying the hardships were to be expected. We have received several reports contestants were injured during the final night of production.



We have also been given photos of the contestant shirts (the ones being concealed by the garbage bags).

Be patient, we’re pretty sure you’ll be able to get one on eBay after the show airs.

As we’ve reported, questions continue to be raised about the fairness of the competitions in “Beast Games.” Game shows are highly regulated, and multiple sources believe the competitions were not fair to everyone.

One commenter says, “All challenges were skewed to favor young, athletic men (despite being presented differently). It was said multiple times before all challenges that safety was a top concern and would be taken seriously by production, and that there would be no tolerance of pushing, shoving, or tackling (basically any sort of assault or battery from contestants onto contestants) and none of that was enforced. The contestants that committed said acts were not eliminated or even disciplined.”

Another commenter said, “Each challenge catered to young strong men, who bullied female and elderly contestants and ultimately took away any chance of a fair competition. I have always been a fan of Mr. Beast. I believe in the causes he donates to and all the good he has done, but in a world where women’s rights are literally being threatened I’m disappointed that he would spearhead a show that encourages such toxic masculinity.”

A source says there was a pile of cash on display during the competitions at Allegiant Stadium, the $5 million in prize money, all $1 bills.
https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/wp-co ... 45x563.jpg
That’s a lot of clams, or possibly simoleons.



Reports of poor planning and treatment continue to stream in.

A commenter on our story claims, “In the third challenge (on the 20th), there was one person, presumably a young female given the petite body size (and medics calling the person ‘ma’am’) that was tackled by a larger, athletic male, so the athletic male could get the flag, and the presumed female was knocked out cold due to the impact (that’s why the medics were calling out ‘ma’am’ to the person, trying to wake them up), and that person that tackled them was not eliminated.”

A separate commenter says, “Treated everyone like animals and a lot of people were mentally and physically abused. They denied people meals and they wouldn’t feed them for hours, 10-plus hours. Women were bleeding through their clothes. I heard multiple people had seizures and they denied medically necessary medication to contestants and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.”

Honestly, we were personally trying to stay as neutral as possible until the whole “women were bleeding through their clothes” thing.

Counterpoint opinions include, “Suck it up, people. The contestants are living in luxury compared to the way millions of people in third world countries must live every day.”

Another commenter concurs, “Dear contestants, please take accountability. I see a lot of complaints of parents of their “dear children” as if they were not briefed at all or have no clue about these competitions. Sorry to break it to you parents, but that is your adult child’s fault.”

A competitor shared more details about the briefcase challenge: “The briefcase challenge consisted of essentially around 400 briefcases placed on tables which were divided in four quadrants. There was the northeast quadrant, the southeast, southwest and northwest quadrants. In this challenge, the teams were now competing against each other as the big twist. So each team took turns competing against themselves. All the team members were placed around the four quadrants so it was 100 players on the north side, 100 players on the east side, so on and so forth. Then on the screen of the stadium appeared a graph showcasing all of the briefcases. The screen then highlighted which briefcases were safe and unsafe and the challenge was to essentially run and touch a safe briefcase first. The problem was that the spacing between each briefcase was only big enough for a single file line of people to go through so pushing and shoving was inevitable. Right before the countdown began, MrBeast specified to not shove or push each other but it was to no avail, countless people got injured. Many were trampled and some others got it worse, some got slightly concussed from what I heard while others had it even worse than that.”

Our final update: The Las Vegas Review-Journal still sucks.

[Luke]

Funny Ryan Trahan video with behind-the-scenes about participating in the Nuclear Bunker video.

[Suranis]

So, he put up a new video. And he is censoring comments. Anything that mentions His faking videos, exploiting his audience, running illegal lotteries,The Beast games getting ran and managed so poorly that peoples health is in serious danger, treating his employees like shit, and the Kris Taylor situation is getting autozapped. People were getting around it with tricks like removing the spaces in their comments to get around the automod and these were getting thousands of likes in 10 minutes, and later those comments were gone.

As the Video maker says, he refuses to believe that a video that is getting hundreds of thousands of views a minute is only getting one comment every few minutes or so...

The thing is, who cares. The guy could kill someone on video and Youtube, Amazon etc wouldn't drop him. He is making them so much money that they will pump him and protect him from silly things like the Law, no matter what.

He doesn't have to answer to anyone. His core audience is 8 to 13 year olds, who wont know or care. The rest of the internet will forget about this in a couple of weeks when the latest Donkey bray from Turnips gets people talking about that. The opinion makers will switch to the latest outrage for clicks. This will be forgotten about The guy is untouchable. Accountability is for plebs. The internet is a post accountability society. There's such a hosepipe of information at this point that someone like me who has the skill to remember things is an anachronism.

In a few years his views will drop and then people will be shocked, SHOCKED to find the whole thing was fake and how could they allow this to happen and "I had no idea" and don't worry Mr Orange is the real deal.

And I signed out of my account, clicked trending and its that guys face, Mr Beast, on the list. I'm sure if I zapped my cookies the list of recommended would be filled with him. And the world continues to turn.

Yay.

[John Thomas8]

[neonzx]

https://youtu.be/W4CePWWN1Xs

Uh oh. Fanboy Luke is not going be happy seeing Beast Creep dude is being exposed the fraud he is.

[John Thomas8]

Actually, that video is well-balanced and doesn't give an opinion about Beast one way or the other.

I think Beast is a scammer, but that's just my opinion.

[Suranis]

[Suranis]

Sooo... what happens when you cross Mr Beast with Logan Paul and some other guy? Even more sugar scams marketed to your impressionable child. Whee!

A "Lunchables" replacement that's less healthy and more cheaply made. All the Logan Paul scam and MORE! After Mr Beast has been accused of changing his formula for his Feastables to add more sugar and more crap, he joins forces with more scammers to sell an even more crap Lunchables. Whee!





The second video summarises more allegations about Mr Beast, like hiring a sex offender, and passing around Adderall to employees to keep them awake and working. Allegedly. And more faking Videos. Allegedly.

[John Thomas8]

Sooo... what happens when you cross Mr Beast with Logan Paul and some other guy? Even more sugar scams marketed to your impressionable child. Whee!

The "some other guy" is KSI, already nailed by coffeezilla:

[Suranis]

The "some other guy" is KSI, already nailed by coffeezilla:

Thanks. I remember someone on another forum saying that I was "totally immersed in the internet" or something like that so naturally I have never heard of that guy.

Anyway. Our boy Jimmy is getting sued. The Lawyers must be pretty confident if they are going up against this amount of money. This video does a pretty good job going through the court filing.

[neonzx]

Oh noes!!! An 'influencer' got sued. This is sad. Who do I worship now?

[Frater I*I]

Oh noes!!! An 'influencer' got sued. This is sad. Who do I worship now?

Khorne....

[Suranis]

Oh noes!!! An 'influencer' got sued. This is sad. Who do I worship now?

Khorne....

I'm more into Taal myself.