A former employee of popular YouTuber MrBeast has recently discussed their experience working for the content creation superstar and shared their opinion about MrBeast’s “invincible” attitude that they found potentially problematic.
2024 has not been the best year for Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, who has faced a number of scandals and controversies, which started with allegations involving his former collaborator, Ava Kris Tyson.
Donaldson has been hit with a slew of lawsuits and accusations, such as “inhumane” working conditions during his “Beast Games” show ($100 million Amazon show).
Former MrBeast employee Trey Yates says that Donaldson’s says that his attempt to do the impossible with each video he creates is part of the reason that a number of issues have popped up, and warns it could continue to grow.
“For years, Jimmy felt like he was invincible,” Yates said, according to Polygon. “What we’re seeing now is the repercussions of him thinking that way. In his YouTube bubble, he could get away with that as his target audience was children… If he wants to continue to scale up, he can’t just say and do ‘whatever the f*ck we want’ anymore.”
“When dealing with people outside MrBeast Productions, never take a No at face value,” he wrote. “If we need a store to buy everything inside of and you call the local Dollar Tree and the person that answers says, ‘No, you can’t film here,’ that literally doesn’t mean sh*t.”
Yates says that he was fired after her argued against the company’s requests to work longer hours, and now he and fellow creator DogPack are speaking out against MrBeast.