The top YouTuber announced several company-wide changes in a leaked memo that were precipitated by an ongoing internal investigation.
It’s a bad time to be MrBeast. A few weeks ago, YouTube’s highest paid content creator, real name Jimmy Donaldson, was caught up in scandal after one of his longtime collaborators, Ava Kris Tyson, was accused of sending explicit messages to a 13-year-old girl when she was 20.
Now, a former employee’s claimed MrBeast “knowingly” hired a registered sex offender to work on his $54-million-a-year channel. The person wore a mask during videos to conceal their identity and was apparently called “Delaware” by staff, according to the New York Post.
As the revelations circulated online, another former employee at the channel, known as Jake the Viking, came forward to identify Delaware as his brother-in-law. He added that Delaware was placed on the sex offender’s register in 2010, and claims that the charges against him are due to be dropped a little later this year after he accepted a plea deal with his accuser.
In an internal memo sent to MrBeast employees on Aug. 7—forwarded to The Daily Beast by a spokesperson for the YouTuber—Donaldson pledged to make staff and leadership changes, including hiring a chief human resources officer, chief financial officers and general counsel, “along with other roles to add capacity and competencies to foster a better internal culture as we continue to grow,” he wrote.
In addition to hiring New York-based firm Quinn Emanual to investigation the allegations against Tyson, Donaldson said he asked the firm to expand the investigation to the company’s culture.
Notice that the outrage over hiring a PFR….who has had no allegations of wrongdoing during his time on the channel….garners as much hatred as that of Ava Kris Tyson, a person who has credible allegations against them. How DARE anyone give a PFR a chance.
And exactly why should this be outrageous? How exactly does this registrant’s employment there contribute to future sex crime that the person never should have been hired?
Really curious why comments on the host article were disabled. I e noticed a lot of articles that have been doing that lately.
I was not aware that hiring a PFR was illegal.
I’m also outraged by all the hate Jimmy is getting over it. He’s a decent guy who does a lot for the community and I see it as nothing more than jealousy because of his success.
This is a very shotty piece of journalism. The sentence that confused me the most was “Ava Kris Tyson, was accused of sending explicit messages to a 13-year-old girl when SHE was 20.” However, the rest the article kept referring to the employee Delaware as “him” or “brother-n-law” I put two and two together and figured this “Delaware” might be trans. So I googled Ava Tyson and what do you know. Although the Doc is straight, I have to admit that Ava is a very beautiful trans woman. I just wish the article had mentioned this in the beginning. It still doesn’t take away from the silliness of people being hysterical that someone is on the registry for being a 20 year-old who sent a 13 year-old girl a sexually explicit photo….as if adolescents their age have never seen that type of stuff passed around amongst their peers.