Things That Don't Add Up In The MrBeast & Ava Kris Tyson Scandal
Messaging minors? Grooming allegations? Disturbing accusations involving MrBeast collaborator Ava Kris Tyson have left the YouTube star and his team in the hot seat. Here's what we know about the investigation.
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00:00Messaging minors? Grooming allegations? Disturbing accusations involving Mr. Beast collaborator
00:06Ava Chris Tyson have left the YouTube star and his team in the hot seat. Here's what
00:11we know about the investigation.
00:13Mr. Beast and his crew have been under heavy scrutiny ever since disturbing allegations
00:17against Ava Chris Tyson blew up online. Tyson has been accused of inappropriately messaging
00:22and potentially grooming underage fans, and the controversy is far from over. The internet
00:27had mixed reactions to Mr. Beast's statement about the situation, and people are still
00:31demanding more answers from him.
00:33There are still many details that fans have questions about, which isn't helped by the
00:37cacophony of voices on the internet. There's dogpiling, conflicting stories, and all sorts
00:42of uncomfortable details about the story to sift through online. In order to sort this
00:46mess out, Mr. Beast has said he's hired a third-party investigator to look into the
00:50situation. Fans want answers now, but until that investigation gets finished, there's
00:55so much about this controversy that is still unclear. Here are some of the big questions
00:59that have popped up over the last few days.
01:02One oddity here is the timeline. Stories like these can sometimes take years to come to
01:07light, but the scandal surrounding Ava Chris Tyson has broken out in fits and starts. YouTube
01:12channel Prism42 first shared evidence of Tyson and an underage fan who goes by LavaGS having
01:17a close relationship back in early June 2024, but it wasn't until the end of July that the
01:22story started picking up any real momentum.
01:25"'13 years old, he was in middle school, and you were in college.'"
01:29At the time of this writing, Prism42's original video still had only 20,000 views on YouTube,
01:34but the evidence he presented has since been amplified and shared all over the internet.
01:39The fact that Prism42 is a lesser-known content creator helps to partially explain why the
01:44video about Tyson didn't immediately make waves. The story was eventually picked up
01:48by other creators who rolled the LavaGS story into older anecdotes about Tyson being a
01:52fan of the very controversial internet artist Shadman. Not quite a week after the new videos,
01:58the story at last broke into the mainstream. It's been a busy summer, so maybe the internet
02:02was just distracted and slow-moving on this story. Still, the pace with which this story
02:07broke has been confusing for some.
02:10In the first few days of the scandal breaking out, the internet was left waiting to hear
02:13from Mr. Beast and Tyson herself. Fans thought their statements might help clarify the situation,
02:18but now that they've both spoken out, there are even more questions. Some commenters on
02:22social media have argued that Mr. Beast and Tyson are both presenting slightly different
02:26versions of what happened between them. Tyson responded first, with her post addressing
02:30the situation coming out on the afternoon of July 23rd. After offering an apology to
02:34anyone who was offended by her past actions, Tyson tweeted,
02:37"...we've mutually decided it's best I permanently step away from all things Mr. Beast and social
02:42media to focus on my family and mental health."
02:45Ava then says that she's never groomed anyone and that she's only apologizing for her old
02:50social media posts.
02:52Tyson's statement makes it sound like she stepped back after she and Mr. Beast both
02:55agreed it was time for her to leave the crew. However, Mr. Beast's statement doesn't quite
02:59match up. He wrote,
03:01"...I've seen enough online and taken immediate action to remove Ava from the company, my
03:06channel and any association with Mr. Beast."
03:09Mr. Beast doesn't frame the split as a mutual decision, but more like he outright fired
03:13Tyson. Even if the end result is the same, fans want to know which version of events
03:18is accurate.
03:20In his social media post, Mr. Beast didn't just announce that he had removed Ava Tyson
03:24from his business. He also said,
03:26"...I've been focused on hiring an independent third party to conduct a thorough investigation
03:30to ensure I have all the facts. I will allow the independent investigators the necessary
03:34time to conduct a comprehensive investigation and will take any further actions based on
03:38their findings."
03:39That seems like a straightforward and reasonable response, but it does create another wrinkle
03:44in this story. Days before Mr. Beast made this post, Drama Alert host Keemstar claimed
03:49that he'd discussed the accusations with Mr. Beast, who then apparently put him in
03:53touch with Lava GS, the alleged victim. Following this conversation, Keemstar said on X that
03:58he spoke with Lava GS as part of his own investigation.
04:01"...So he connected me to Lava, I spoke to Lava."
04:04A number of things here don't quite add up, as noted by some onlookers. Why would Mr.
04:08Beast reach out to Keemstar if he was also hiring an independent investigator to examine
04:13the allegations behind the scenes? On top of that, Lava GS went public with his side
04:17of the story hours before Keemstar claimed to have spoken with him. In theory, Keemstar
04:21could have reached out to Lava via DMs without Mr. Beast getting involved at all.
04:26Mr. Beast's investigation has also raised a number of questions for his followers. In
04:30his statement on X, Mr. Beast said that he'd spent a few days focusing on finding an independent
04:34investigator, but didn't make it clear whether the investigation has actually begun. Considering
04:39how this entire story has unfolded so slowly, some commenters believe that Mr. Beast has
04:44been looking into the allegations for longer than most of the people finding out about
04:48it this week.
04:49Yeah, so all this beef behind the scenes has been going on for like a month, right?
04:55At least one of Mr. Beast's former employees seems to have implied that the social media
04:59creator has known about this situation for longer than he's letting on. Jake the Viking
05:03Franklin posted, quote, "'Jimmy knew.'" Franklin has not yet posted any hard evidence to support
05:08his claim, but fans are probably going to want Mr. Beast to come forward with a clearer
05:13timeline of events and an estimate on how long the third-party investigation into the
05:17situation is going to take.
05:19You can't trust everything you see on the internet, which is a message that always bears
05:23repeating. There are verified screenshots of Tyson's conversations with Lava.gs that
05:27have come under scrutiny for their inappropriate content, and Lava himself has come forward
05:31to confirm some parts of the story while pushing back against others. Specifically, Lava tweeted
05:36that he wasn't a victim, writing,
05:38Ava never did anything wrong and just made a few edgy jokes I was never exploited or
05:42taken advantage of. But in another tweet, Lava commended Mr. Beast for taking the situation
05:47seriously, writing,
05:48"...while the allegations involving my name aren't true, I feel there is still a lot of
05:52other allegations that deserve to be investigated thoroughly."
05:56Over the last few days, other accounts have been coming forward with claims against Tyson,
06:00but some of the evidence has been disputed. An account called ClipHub posted videos that
06:04claimed to show messages between Tyson and another underage fan. Community notes on X
06:09point out a number of apparent inaccuracies, including mismatched dates and Tyson being
06:13listed under the wrong name. Those videos aren't the only ones that have been making
06:17the rounds on social media, though. Right now, unverified accusations are flying left
06:21and right, so folks following the story may want to take things on social media with a
06:25grain of salt — at least until further official statements are made.