You don't become one of the biggest creators online without ruffling a few feathers. Some of MrBeast's crew members have left the team in a rage, and others have quietly moved on to the next phase of their careers. All of them have a story to tell.
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00:00You don't become one of the biggest creators online without ruffling a few feathers. Some
00:05of Mr. Beast's crew members have left the team in a rage, and others have quietly moved
00:09on to the next phase of their careers. All of them have a story to tell.
00:14Matt Turner was one of Mr. Beast's video editors, but he didn't part ways with the content creator
00:18on good terms. Turner was ousted in August 2018, but a little over a year later, he made
00:24a series of now-deleted posts claiming that Mr. Beast had been a terrible boss who verbally
00:29abused him and didn't give him credit for his work. In a damning New York Times piece,
00:34Turner said,
00:35"'I was not to be credited for anything I did. I'd ask for credit, he'd credit someone
00:39else.'"
00:40Mr. Beast has a different view on the story, and some people who know him came forward
00:44to push back against Turner's claims. When Turner first made his posts claiming Mr. Beast
00:48was abusive, Keemstar pointed out that when Turner initially left the crew, he said working
00:53with Mr. Beast was an amazing experience.
00:57Matt Turner isn't the only person who says they had a bad experience while working for
01:01Mr. Beast. Around the same time that Turner left the crew, Mr. Beast lost another editor
01:05called Nate Fly Anderson. In October 2019, Fly posted a statement, saying,
01:10"...I made a video explaining my experience while I edited for Mr. Beast and I basically
01:14said it was one of the worst consecutive weeks of my life."
01:18Fly later removed his video from YouTube, claiming that he was receiving too many hateful
01:22comments and even death threats from diehard Mr. Beast fans. That wasn't the last time
01:27he spoke about his experience on the crew, however. Like Turner, Fly shared his experience
01:31with The New York Times, saying, quote,
01:33"...nothing ever worked for him. He always wanted it a certain way."
01:37Unlike Turner, Fly quit the crew on his own terms, and at no point has he been quoted
01:41saying anything positive about his time working with Mr. Beast.
01:45Jake the Viking worked with Mr. Beast during one of the most exciting times in his channel's
01:50Jake's first video with Mr. Beast was,
01:52"...Do Water Repellent Shoes Actually Work?" which came out in the summer of 2018. At that
01:56time, a ton of the videos that Mr. Beast put out were focused on physical challenges, and
02:01thanks to his Viking-like build, Jake fit into that approach perfectly.
02:05After initially making constant appearances in videos, fans started seeing less and less
02:08of Jake until he made his final appearance in Mr. Beast's $60,000 Extreme Hide and Seek
02:14video in January 2020.
02:16From that time, Mr. Beast's channel grew from about 4 million subscribers to 30 million,
02:21and even though he was just one of a handful of crew members, Jake the Viking started gaining
02:25a small following of his own. A few months after fans had stopped seeing Jake in Mr.
02:29Beast's videos, he posted an explanation of what had happened to his own YouTube channel.
02:34"...and it came down to, my piece no longer fit the puzzle."
02:39He didn't have a place on the channel anymore, but at the same time, he was itching to start
02:43pursuing an independent content creation career. Because of that, Jake the Viking and
02:47Mr. Beast were able to leave things on good terms for a bit. The good vibes did not last.
02:53As allegations of sexual misconduct began to pour out surrounding former crew member
02:57Ava Chris Tyson, Jake posted, quote,
02:59"...after seeing all this, I'm glad they fired me."
03:03It feels a little strange to think about now, but there was a time when Sneako worked for
03:07Mr. Beast. All the way back in 2014 — basically 1,000 years ago in internet time — Mr. Beast
03:12posted a video talking about his favorite small YouTubers, and Sneako made the cut.
03:17Four years later, Sneako wasn't doing much work on YouTube, so Mr. Beast brought him
03:21onto the crew.
03:22Sneako's first Mr. Beast appearance was in the 2018 video, I Built a Working Car Using
03:26Only Legos. After that, Sneako spent a little more time with the crew, but it wasn't long
03:30before they parted ways. In a video titled, The Most Important Lesson I Learned Working
03:35for Mr. Beast, Sneako told his side of the story and explained why, even though it was
03:39short-lived, he really appreciated his time on the crew.
03:42I started working for Mr. Beast two years ago. It didn't last long because I got caught
03:47up with my ego. I was working for a guy that used to be my fan."
03:50Some people have left Mr. Beast's crew on bad terms, but Marcus Pearson arguably had
03:54the most volatile exit from the team. Pearson's Mr. Beast journey began in 2019, but it ended
04:00less than a year later. In early 2020, fans stopped seeing Pearson in Mr. Beast's videos,
04:04and by the end of the year, he was officially not part of the channel.
04:07We still don't exactly know why Pearson was fired. The timing suggests that the COVID
04:12pandemic, which massively slowed down Mr. Beast's production, had something to do with
04:16it.
04:17The internet has also spread rumors that Pearson's firing had something to do with a drug problem,
04:21but those rumors seem to only be based on Pearson's reaction to being let go. He didn't
04:25take the firing well, and posted a nearly 15-minute rant about Mr. Beast to his Instagram
04:30story. The rant is a bit scattered, but in it, Pearson takes issue with the way Mr. Beast
04:35fired him and threatens to expose some kind of wrongdoing that involves Mr. Beast.
04:40People didn't take Pearson's rant too seriously, in part because of a segment when he seems
04:44to imply a belief that Mr. Beast created the pandemic. Clearly, Pearson was emotional while
04:50filming the video, but after that, he basically dropped off the internet and has hardly been
04:54seen since.
04:56As we've seen, quite a handful of crew members have left the Mr. Beast team over the years,
05:00but none of them have done so quite as publicly and dramatically as Ava Tyson. Mr. Beast and
05:05Tyson have been friends for years, and Tyson was a part of the Mr. Beast crew from the
05:09very beginning. Then, in July 2024, disturbing allegations about Tyson started circulating
05:14online, and everything fell apart. Tyson has been accused of messaging and maintaining
05:19an inappropriate relationship with an underage fan of Mr. Beast. Tyson began messaging the
05:24fan, who goes by LavaGS, on Discord when Lava was just 13 years old. People started sharing
05:30screenshots of Tyson sending sexual jokes to Lava, and even though Lava himself said
05:35that Tyson had done nothing wrong, public pressure for Tyson to leave the crew mounted.
05:40Details about the truth are still hazy. Tyson announced via ex-formerly Twitter that she
05:44and Mr. Beast had mutually decided for her to leave the crew, but a day later, Mr. Beast
05:48himself made a post claiming he fired Tyson. Mr. Beast also said that he was hiring an
05:53independent investigator to look into the allegations, and his fans hoped that the result
05:58of the investigation would clear up all the lingering questions they had about Tyson's
06:02behavior and relationship with Lava.
06:04In the days that followed this announcement, even worse allegations were leveled against
06:08Tyson, and the outcome of Mr. Beast's investigation has yet to be revealed.
06:13Of course, with as many years as Mr. Beast has been creating content for YouTube and
06:17as many people he's had on his team, there have been quite a few people who left the
06:21crew on good terms. Even though Jake the Viking was let go, he doesn't seem to harbor many
06:25bad feelings about his work with Mr. Beast. There have also been other crew members who
06:29eventually moved from an on-camera to a behind-the-scenes role on the crew.
06:33Then there's Jake Weddle. He began working with Mr. Beast as a writer and made his first
06:37on-camera appearance in the 2019 video, Standing Still for 24 Hours Straight Statue Challenge.
06:44Less than a year after that video, Weddle made his exit from the crew, but it wasn't
06:47because of any bad blood. Weddle posted his own video explaining that he decided to leave
06:52because he wanted to pursue his own comedy, and was feeling stressed about his work with
06:55Mr. Beast, particularly because of how popular the channel had become in his time there.
07:00There was so many things I wanted to do as a stand-up, I really just couldn't do, and
07:06that's not to the detriment of Jimmy or anything.