YouTube star MrBeast reported ‘disturbing’ leaked messages to the FBI

October 29, 2024, 4:46 p.m

MrBeast, YouTube’s most popular creator, has been reported to the FBI over “disturbing” company chat logs.

YouTuber and baking personality Rosanna Pansino claims to have reported MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, to the FBI, calling the messages “crazy,” “disturbing” and “inappropriate.”

The messages, allegedly attributed to former MrBeast employees, include references to sexual activities of minors, Nazi symbolism and incest, usually shared as jokes.

Donaldson holds the record for the most subscribers on YouTube with 324 million subscribers at the time of writing.

He recently topped the Forbes 2024 Creators list and earned a record $85 million dollars (roughly £65 million) last year.

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One of the messages must contain a photo showing a naked 13-year-old Ivanka Trump.

It was later confirmed that Ivanka Trump was actually 18 years old in the photo, which was part of a British GQ Magazine photo shoot in April 2000.

Ms Pansino shared the messages in a YouTube video titled ‘MrBeast knew all along’.

Many of the messages shared are attributed to former longtime collaborator and close friend of Donaldson, Ava Kris Tyson.

In July, Ms Tyson, 28, was accused of sending inappropriate messages to a minor at the time, aged 13, when she was 20. Both Tyson and the alleged victim have vehemently denied the allegations.

Tyson has since left the company.

In the video where the allegations surfaced, Tyson said, “These MrBeast Company work chat logs have been confirmed as legitimate by several former MrBeast employees who were in the chat.

“I’m sorting through them as quickly as I can. To me this is proof that Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast) knew about Ava Kris Tyson’s behavior for years.”

Ms Pansino, 39, says the messages were shared in official MrBeast company work chats between 2020 and 2021. Pansino claims Donaldson was an active member of the chats using the alias John Smith.

This is not the first controversy Donaldson has been involved in.

Last month, five female contestants on his upcoming Prime Video show Beast Games announced they were launching lawsuits against his production company, MrB2024, and Amazon.

The 54-page legal document claims the participants were “malnourished and overtired” and were physically injured and not given proper access to medical care.

It also claims they suffered in an environment that “systematically fostered a culture of misogyny and sexism”.

Donaldson has not commented on the allegations, and the FBI has not confirmed whether an investigation has been opened.

LBC has contacted MrBeast for comment.