Getty PicturesMrBeast has claimed he has footage exhibiting that allegations his upcoming actuality recreation present “shamelessly exploited” contestants had been “blown out of proportion”.
The YouTuber, actual title Jimmy Donaldson, launched a teaser for Beast Video games on Monday and introduced it might be launched subsequent month.
In September, Amazon and MrBeast had been named in a lawsuit which made quite a few claims about how individuals had been handled on set.
The Amazon collection promised to be the largest dwell recreation present on the planet with 1,000 individuals competing in a collection of elimination challenges for a $5m (£3.5m) money prize.
Whereas he hasn’t formally commented on the proceedings, MrBeast did reply to a consumer on X who requested concerning the allegations on Monday.
“Now we have tons of behind the scenes dropping when the present does to indicate how blown out of proportion these claims had been,” he mentioned.
“Simply cannot launch it now as a result of it might spoil the video games.”
Getty PicturesFive anonymous contestants brought claims on behalf of everybody who took half within the collection.
They mentioned they weren’t paid, had been subjected to unsafe situations and skilled sexual harassment.
Within the 54-page doc, the manufacturing was accused of a “tradition of misogyny”, controlling the “underfed and overtired” solid and failing to supply a protected setting.
The contestants are suing the businesses concerned within the present, together with Amazon and MrB2024, which attorneys say is “believed to be owned in complete or half, immediately or not directly” by MrBeast.
BBC Newsbeat has contacted MrBeast and Amazon concerning the ongoing authorized proceedings.
Additionally named within the papers is a manufacturing firm, Off One’s Base LLP, which BBC Newsbeat has been unable to contact.
Representatives for the contestants have additionally been contacted for remark.
Pyrotechnics, helicopters and a pirate ship
MrBeast is the largest YouTuber on the planet with greater than 300m subscribers, identified for elaborate challenges in addition to his philanthropy.
Releasing a teaser trailer for the collection on Monday, the 26-year-old mentioned he’d “poured the whole lot I’ve into this present”.
He additionally mentioned on X that his YouTube channel had “def[initely] suffered a bit” because of the period of time he is spent on Beast Video games.
In addition to internet hosting the challenges, MrBeast can also be an govt producer on the collection which Amazon says will resemble his YouTube movies, “fueled by time-sensitive emotional selections, pyrotechnics, and naturally, big-rewards”.
Within the trailer, the 1,000 contestants are seen lined up in particular person packing containers, leaping from a helicopter and on board a pirate ship.
“This present goes to blow your thoughts, I’m so excited,” MrBeast mentioned in an Instagram story.
The authorized motion was one other problem for MrBeast in a 12 months that noticed different allegations made in opposition to one in all his former channel co-hosts, Ava Kris Tyson.
She stopped working with MrBeast in July after different YouTubers accused her of sending inappropriate messages to a minor, reportedly then 13, when she was 20.
Ava denied this and earlier this month lawyers hired by MrBeast concluded that allegations of grooming were “without basis”.
Nonetheless the investigation did determine some “remoted cases of office harassment and misconduct” however that MrBeast’s firm took “swift and acceptable actions” when made conscious.
