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You Shouldn’t Aspire to Become as Successful as Mr. Beast
The recent Mr. Beast drama shows the dark side of content creation.
This article will be a more candid piece than what I usually post here.
If you haven’t heard, there’s been a lot of controversy around Mr. Beast — the biggest creator on YouTube. The guy has crossed 300 million subscribers, and every video he puts out is automatically put into the trending tab on YouTube and accumulates millions of views in a matter of hours.
The catalyst was allegations made online against Ava Kris Tyson — a long-time best friend of Jimmy (a.k.a Mr. Beast) of grooming and making advances toward minors. The Internet Anarchist created a few good video essays explaining the whole thing. Here’s the latest one:
Mr. Beast came out with an announcement on Twitter explaining he disavows the whole thing, and the Beast company and Ava Tyson are parting ways while a private investigation will be underway:
