YouTuber MrBeast was named successful a suit revenge by 5 contestants from his upcoming “Beast Games” reality title show.
The people action suit revenge Monday successful Los Angeles Superior Court accused nan defendants — including Amazon, Mr Beast, 26, and his independent accumulation company, Off One’s Base LLC — of subjecting nan unnamed plaintiffs to “chronic mistreatment,” intersexual harassment and much connected nan group of nan Prime Video bid that filmed complete nan summer.
In a redacted type of nan lawsuit, nan contestants said they are seeking a assemblage proceedings to find monetary damages “likely totaling successful nan millions of dollars.”
The 5 plaintiffs claimed they were subjected “to unreasonable, unsafe, and unlawful employment conditions.”
The complaints listed successful nan suit see intersexual harassment, nonaccomplishment to forestall harassment, negligent infliction of affectional distress, nonaccomplishment to supply uninterrupted repast breaks, nonaccomplishment to supply uninterrupted remainder breaks, nonaccomplishment to salary minimum wages, nonaccomplishment to salary overtime, mendacious advertising, unfair business practices and more.
The suit specifically claimed that nan show — which allegedly has a $100 cardinal fund — misrepresented itself by telling contestants location would beryllium 1,000 participates, only for them to find retired “upon arrival” that location were more.
This “reduced” nan contestants’ chances of winning nan purported $5 cardinal expansive prize, nan suit said.
The title besides alleged that MrBeast (whose existent sanction is Jimmy Donaldson) “did not want to usage nan alleged unconstrained resources” that he had for nan show “to supply adjacent wages, aliases moreover bare-minimum-legal moving conditions.”
Instead, MrBeast and nan defendants allegedly “employed superior bargaining powerfulness to coerce nan contestants to motion unconscionable contracts pinch forbidden position and illusory obligations,” per nan suit.
The defendants were specifically blamed for having “created, permitted to exist, and fostered a civilization and shape and believe of intersexual harassment including successful nan shape of a dispute activity environment.”
The Post has reached retired to MrBeast’s rep for comment.
Attorneys for nan 5 anonymous group who revenge nan suit said successful a statement, “While participants knew upon signing nan statement astatine nan production’s inception that they were facing a perchance agelong and challenging competition, they allege getting a batch much than they bargained for.”
“Several contestants ending up hospitalized, while others reported suffering beingness and intelligence complications while being subjected to chronic mistreatment, degradation and, for nan female contestants, dispute moving conditions,” nan connection went on.
“Beast Games” was announced by Amazon successful March.
The show was touted arsenic “the biggest reality title bid pinch 1000 contestants competing for a $5 cardinal rate prize—the biggest azygous prize successful nan history of tv and streaming.”
Mr. Beast, nan big and executive shaper of nan show, said astatine nan time, “My extremity is to make nan top show imaginable and beryllium YouTubers and creators tin win connected different platforms. Amazon gave maine nan imaginative power I request to effort and make it happen. I dream to make nan YouTube organization proud.”
The celebrated net prima has already been embroiled in different controversies.
He admitted complete nan summertime to using “inappropriate language” in his early online days. There were besides allegations that his erstwhile longtime colleague, Ava Kris Tyson made inappropriate intersexual comments to minors.
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