00:00Comedian Jake Weddle just spoke out about why he walked away from working
00:04with Mr. Beast, as weeks of controversy continue to follow YouTube's most
00:08popular creator. I didn't do this for money, I didn't do this for fame, and I
00:13want to tell people what Jimmy's really like. Mr. Beast, whose real name is Jimmy
00:20Donaldson, is arguably the most well-known creator out there. As of the
00:24making of this video, his YouTube channel holds 309 million subscribers. However,
00:29the past few weeks, Donaldson has been involved in multiple controversies, and
00:33it just got worse. It started with Donaldson firing his longtime friend and
00:38collaborator, Ava Tyson, after allegations of inappropriate conversations with a
00:42minor resurfaced. Mr. Beast took to X2Share he hired an independent third
00:46party to investigate the allegations, and went on to write,
00:49That said, I've seen enough online and take an immediate action to remove Ava
00:54from the company, my channel, and any association with Mr. Beast. I do not
00:58condone or support any of the inappropriate actions. Shortly after this,
01:03fellow YouTuber Rosanna Pansino, who has spoken out against Mr. Beast in the past,
01:07began sharing testimonials from alleged contestants on Mr. Beast's upcoming
01:12reality show, Beast Games. Multiple stories Pansino shared alleged contestants
01:16were not given enough food or water, were not provided feminine hygiene
01:20products, and challenges resulted in multiple injuries. What is going on here
01:24is beyond disgusting and extremely dangerous. So I'm gonna read to you her
01:30message. I was a contestant until the end. I also didn't accept their hush money.
01:36People were having seizures because they were not getting medication. Men started
01:41realizing that they could take out the women without being eliminated. Guys
01:46started tackling and hitting women. The lack of water, food, and medical attention
01:52was embarrassing and sad. Women and elders injured. I witnessed two seizures,
01:57a sprained ankle. Staff and medical did nothing to help her, leaving her for
02:02hours crying. To hear more allegations made against Beast Games, you can find
02:06Rosanna Pansino on TikTok and YouTube, where she explains the claims in greater
02:11detail. Then, on August 1st, racist and homophobic comments Mr. Beast made
02:16during a 2017 livestream resurfaced. In the stream, a viewer shared a comment
02:21about selling a black person for $400, to which Donaldson replied,
02:25Uh, the most I'd pay is like $300. Sorry. $400 is just out of my price range for
02:30that type of stuff. As the YouTuber started facing backlash online, Mr. Beast's
02:35team released this statement. When Jimmy was a teenager, he acted like many kids
02:39and used inappropriate language while trying to be funny. Over the years, he has
02:43repeatedly apologized and has learned that increasing influence comes with
02:46increased responsibility to be more aware and more sensitive to the power of
02:50language. Most recently, and arguably the most serious allegations brought against
02:56the YouTuber so far, involves a former collaborator of Mr. Beast, comedian Jake
03:00Weddle. Weddle was interviewed by YouTuber Dogpack404 and appears in a
03:05two-part documentary titled, I Worked for Mr. Beast. Weddle appeared in a few of
03:09Mr. Beast's videos and worked with the creator from 2019 to around 2021. In the
03:14video from Dogpack, Weddle claims he participated in a scrapped Mr. Beast's
03:18solitary confinement video, in which he was in a white room with lights and
03:22cameras on him 24-7, with the aftermath leaving him both psychologically and
03:26physically hurt. After 30 days, you're gonna get $300,000 because it's $10,000 a
03:32day. And I don't know, man. I grew up poor in North Carolina. I said, excuse me?
03:38I'll yell dance for you if you put that kind of money in my face, sure. I had a
03:43lot of good people looking out for me saying, we gotta stop. I go,
03:46they're not turning the lights off. He goes, what? That's a war crime. We're not
03:51allowed to do that to terrorists. Oh, oh good. 24 hours breaking the Geneva
04:00Convention, I guess, is what we're doing. Jimmy said, can you say to the camera how
04:05thankful you are that now you can pay back your student loans? You know how
04:12hard it was to do a take of that and pretend to make it genuine? Weddell then
04:18explained a challenge in the video where Mr. Beast asked him to run a marathon on
04:22a treadmill in the room and felt like he couldn't say no because he didn't want
04:26to ruin the video or waste the company's time and money. I'm running until 3 a.m.
04:32I got off the treadmill. The blisters I had on my feet were like, you wouldn't
04:39believe, just all over, just these big red, I couldn't, I couldn't walk. My muscles
04:44were like just, the lactic acid, I, that's when I was like, I'm done, I can't, I'm
04:49done, I'm done, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out. And they didn't
04:52let me leave right away either. They wanted to make sure, you know, that it was fine.
04:57So I just, you know, slept for a while. They turned the lights off.
05:02Weddell also makes numerous claims about the overall treatment of employees and allegedly
05:07being paid hush money. As of the making of this video, Mr. Beast has not responded to
05:11any of Weddell's claims. If you're interested in hearing Weddell's full story, you can find
05:16him on YouTube and TikTok, and watch his full interview on Dogpack 404's channel.
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