An employee of MrBeast has spoken out in response to claims of “fraud” from an ex-employee who he “had to fire”.
Uploading a video onto YouTube under the name DogPack404, the former employee made various claims about the MrBeast channel, including allegations that giveaways are fake and contestants aren’t random subscribers.
MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is known for his over-the-top competitions with huge cash prizes up for grabs.
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His online antics has earned him the title of most subscribed channel with over 300 million followers.
Now, one of Donaldson’s employees, whose X handle is @chucky, has spoken out against the claims made by DogPack404.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Chucky said: “I quickly want to debunk some of the info in this video since the guy who made it was on my team.
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“It was my decision to fire him for erratic behavior, he worked at the company for less than a month and wasn't an employee for most of the videos he mentions to have knowledge on.
“There’s so much in his video and I want to specifically address him saying our videos are fake or staged because this is not true and I was on set for many of these videos.”
He went on to directly address some of the allegations made in DogPack404’s video.
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Speaking about the claim that you won’t appear in a MrBeast video unless you’re “family or friends with someone” that works for Donaldson, Chucky said: “This is a wild statement that can easily be proven wrong, there's probably hundreds or thousands of people who have no affiliation to friends / family of beast employees.
“Think of the 456 people in Squid Game, or ages 1 - 100, etc. Jimmy doesn’t know more than like a dozen people lol.”
Talking about the claim from DogPack404 that CGI was used in videos, he continued: “He acts like he’s exposing us for using CGI to make backgrounds look cool when we have done multiple public behind the scenes videos with sokrispy showing this.
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“It’s clearly not a secret. On top of that, we did drive buses in that pit and same with the train that you claim we didn’t.”
Chucky went on to back up MrBeast’s claim that he bought an island for a dollar.
He said: “We did pay $1 for this island. You can google ‘MrBeast purchases Outer Banks island for $1’ which stated this before the video was released.”
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In DogPack404’s video, the ex-employee accused Donaldson of scripting his videos, claiming that the contestants are not random subscribers.
In response, Chucky said: “He claims our 100 boys vs 100 girls video is scripted and the proof is a random text saying it is? That’s it? It was not scripted.
“Jimmy probably had countless people on set for that video and it would have been impossible to hide. This video was not scripted. I was on set for this and there was no bias for who won.
“He also implies the video is fake because we have some employees on each team. The employees in the video were there to fill in for people who tested positive for covid last minute right before filming. Thea (jimmy gf) mentioned this on a podcast over a year ago.
“If it wasn’t for Covid they would have not been in it. They had the same $ on the line as everyone else. Some random text of someone ‘thinking’ it was rigged doesn't mean it's rigged lol.”
Chucky went on to say: “We do not fake giveaways, I have been hands on with some of them and have personally been the person to connect winners with our accounting department to get paid. You also suggested we didn’t spend $1,000,000 on Samsung phones and I can assure you we did. Another lie from you.”
He added: “I’d appreciate it if everyone reading this could help dispel all these fake rumors by spreading this info.
“Jimmy spends unfathomable amounts of money and time to ensure the integrity of what he does and I hate to see it come into question with a bunch of lies.”
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Donaldson was recently hit with allegations of racism and sexist behavior after old videos “before fame” resurfaced online.
The YouTuber previously spoke out about grooming allegations made against co-host Ava Kris Tyson.
Tyson has publicly denied the claims but has said she will be permanently stepping away from the MrBeast channel to “focus on family and mental health”.
LADbible Group has reached out to MrBeast for a comment.