Mrbeasts 'Beast Games', which was renewed by Prime video despite controversy

Prime video has renewed Beast gamesThe controversial Squid game-In -inspired game show by Youtuber Jimmy “Mrbeast” Donaldson. It looks as if the class action for the participants of the first season has not contributed much to prevent Amazon from doing it again.

Announced on Monday, Beast games Will get two more seasons and make it possible for more and more people to be a significant cash prize. In the first season, 1,000 participants met in various challenges for a sum that grew to 10 million US dollars in the last episode.

“You are not ready for the big things we have planned,” wrote Donaldson in a post about X.

Donaldson also agreed on his previous revelation that he lost “$ ten million” Beast gamesThe production of the first season, which cost more than 100 million US dollars.

“To get bigger is my specialty [going bankrupt is] The slightest of my concerns, Haha, “wrote Donaldson and responded to the question of a user on this matter.

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Amazon claims that Beast games Is his most viewed show with 50 million viewers within less than one month after his premiere last December. However, these number of spectators may be at the expense of the well -being of the participants, with Beast gamesThe production that was significantly criticized.

Beast games The complaint of the participants claimed the production “empty of human standards”

Alleged problems with Beast gamesProduction appeared for the first time when the first round of the games was shot in Las Vegas last July. At the time, Vital Vegas reported that several participants and at least one employee claimed poor conditions, while a source in a local hospital continued to claim that “countless” participants were approved due to lack of food and water.

A representative of MRBeast denied such reports and explained that there were three medical events, two of which had nothing to do with production and of which dehydration was involved.

However, The New York Times reported that a month later Beast games The participants had accused the production of severe mismanagement. In particular, the participants claimed that they had suffered physical injuries and received insufficient food and medical care. Production allegedly also took possession of the medicine of the participants, which was then difficult to access if necessary, while participants who reported menstruating were not provided with underwear.

Several participants also stated that they had been informed that there would be 1,000 participants to discover double number on arrival. This large number of people halved the opportunities of the participants to win the main prize. The original 2,000 were then reduced to 1,000 for a video on Donaldson's YouTube channel, not even made to Prime Video's Beast games Series actually.

A representative of Mrbeast told The New York Times That the “advertising video shoot … Unfortunately, through the crowdstrike incident, the extreme weather and other unexpected logistical and communication problems that we are currently reviewing.”

Then in September, several past Beast games The participants submitted a lawsuit in front of a California court in which the production company of Mrbeast and Amazon accused a laundry list of crimes. These allegations included the failure to pay minimum wages or overtime, uninterrupted meals or breaks, sexual harassment, negligent encounters of emotional stress, unfair business practices and false advertising. In the lawsuit it was even said that production was “so free from human standards” that the MRBEAST production team supposedly offered the costs for the therapy of the participants.

All of this is not even the questionable premise of supporting a reality show Squid game'S dystopically capitalist death. In view of the cruelty of Beast games“Inspiration, it is not surprising that the real participants supposedly didn't have a great time.