As the YouTube giant scrambles amidst myriad controversies and scandals, we wonder if this was an inevitable outcome in today’s flawed, problematic content creation industry.
Real name Jimmy Donaldson, MrBeast has recently come under fire for a variety of personal and professional issues that have brought him under a far harsher spotlight than he’s used to. With his recent Amazon Video reality series,reported that more than a dozen participants had spoken out over unsafe conditions and a lack of access to food and medical care. Prior to that, Donaldson himself was forced to address past “inappropriate language” he had made that veered into straight-up racism.
MrBeast poses with fan at the launch of the first physical MrBeast Burger Restaurant at American Dream on September 4, 2022It’s hard to overstate the seismic popularity of MrBeast and his brand’s impact. Jimmy Donaldson is only 26 but he has,that Donaldson's ascension has changed the site, shifting away from a traditional vlogging style to more high-concept, high-production experiences that seek to one-up film and TV.
The myth of Donaldson is that of a scrappy Gen Z-er who lucked his way to the top and decided to share in his good fortunes, but that was never true. He has been open about how he spent his youth finding ways to game YouTube’s algorithm to discover what goes viral and why so he could replicate it for his own success. It worked. He has so ruthlessly dominated the algorithmic mania that his videos are considered disgusting failures if they do less than 10m views in a week .
You look at Donaldson’s myriad problems and realize how many of them are also those of YouTube, an almighty monopolistic force in online video sharing that has never been able to shake off its problematic elements. Experts have spent years calling out YouTube’s role in the algorithmic radicalization of young people, something they were first publicly warned of, it’s tough to overlook the damage that was caused and how long it took them to respond in the first place.
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