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I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud

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Cited on HN 6 times, 2024–2025, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN mentions it in MrBeast threads as the source of allegations, often in a critical or skeptical context, not as a recommendation.

A 54-minute video by a former MrBeast worker alleging that MrBeast's operation is fraudulent, including claims that some contests are staged or manipulated.

6 critical · Commentary · news from the time

6 Hacker News comments

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@everforward Aug 2024 Pushes back
on HN thread The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
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[this video] That’s the original video that kicked it off. It’s pretty mundane as far as internet controversy goes. The lotteries were run poorly and as such were probably illegal, not exactly uncommon on YouTube. The show largely targets kids, so there’s some accusations of it effectively being gambling for kids. After that people dug into his whole life and found out one of his employees was convicted of statutory rape and he was aware, which is a bad look for a channel mostly watched by children. It’s like a 3/10 on internet controversy scales. Doing something common and dumb but not obviously malicious, and then just stuff that looks bad without concrete evidence anything bad actually happened. It’s not terribly interesting, I only saw because of a comedian making fun of it.

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