Summary
Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson is currently jumping between controversy to controversy at the minute, as theYouTuberhas done pretty much everything he could in the past few months to annoy fans and to somewhat sink his online reputation. It all kicked off earlier this year, following allegations made against the company MrBeast that longtime employee Ava Tyson had groomed a young fan.
After supposedly discovering these allegations for the first time back in July (something which YouTuber Rosanna Pansino strongly disputes), MrBeast ordered a thorough investigation into his company. Three months later, MrBeast announced via his personal Twitter account that this investigation had concluded on November 1. While there was no evidence of sexual harassment or grooming, the investigation did turn up several “isolated instances” of workplace harassment and misconduct.
MrBeast Fires Multiple Employees Over Workplace Harassment
In the findings that MrBeast published on social media, it was explained that the YouTuber’s company did not have “policies and practices essential in a mature company”, which allowed “inappropriate conduct”. In an attempt to try and address these problems, it was revealed that MrBeast has already gone about making changes, having fired several employees, and is in the process of finding a new CEO as well as other executive roles.
It was also explained that the company is working on codifying new polices in an employee handbook, implementing mandatory corporate training for all employees, establishing an anonymous reporting mechanism, and identifying additional employees for targeted training to improve behavior. All of these are very welcome policy changes that should ideally have an immediate impact on the inner workings of the company.
However, it’s worth noting that this investigation does not clear MrBeast of any wrongdoing regarding the other scandals in which he’s recently found himself. MrBeast is still yet to clear upthe issues concerning mold found in several Lunchly products, as well as allegations surroundinga series of “pump and dump” crypto scamsthat have reportedly seen the YouTuber earn over $20 million in profit.
