Getty ImagesYouTuber MrBeast has been named in court docket paperwork which allege contestants have been “shamelessly exploited” in his upcoming sequence Beast Games.
People who took half have sued the manufacturing corporations concerned within the show, which embody MrB2024 and Amazon.
The sequence, first introduced in March, provided 1,000 members the possibility to win a money prize of $5m (£3.5m) and promised to be the most important dwell sport show on the earth.
But in a case filed at a Los Angeles court docket on Monday, members allege they weren't paid, have been subjected to unsafe circumstances and skilled sexual harassment.
Documents say MrB2024 is “believed to be owned in whole or part, directly or indirectly”, by MrBeast – actual identify Jimmy Donaldson – who's the most important YouTuber on the earth with greater than 300m subscribers.
BBC Newsbeat has contacted MrBeast and Amazon for remark.
Getty ImagesIn the authorized papers, elements of which have been redacted, 5 nameless contestants have introduced claims on behalf of everybody who took half.
They declare the manufacturing crew saved them below surveillance, managed once they slept, what they wore and denied them privateness and entry to the skin world.
They have been “underfed and overtired”, it claims, with meals supplied “sporadically and sparsely” which “endangered the health and welfare” of the contestants.
The 54-page doc additionally particulars allegations of an unsafe surroundings with contestants being penned into small areas, harmful units and inadequate background checks permitting convicted criminals to take part.
Some, it claims, have been bodily injured and weren't given sufficient entry to medical care.
‘Culture of misogyny'
The set was additionally stated to have “fostered a culture of misogyny and sexism”, making a “hostile environment” for ladies which included sexual harassment.
“This was not only noticed but allowed,” the doc says. “And apparently this was allowed because of marching orders from the top.”
The contestants' legal professionals say they need to be compensated for their time which they are saying was “essential labour” for the manufacturing, arguing they have been “not working for free” and ought to have been classed as staff.
All the claimants are searching for hundreds of {dollars} for everybody who took half to cowl “unpaid wages”.
Two of the listed claimants who're ladies are additionally searching for additional compensation for the allegations of a hostile office.
Earlier this yr, MrBeast announced he had hired private investigators to look into allegations that a co-host on his channel had groomed a minor.
Ava Kris Tyson was accused by different YouTubers of sending inappropriate messages to the minor when she was 20. She denied accusations of grooming.
MrBeast eliminated her from the channel and stated he didn't “condone or support any of the inappropriate actions”.
Amazon have declined to remark, whereas representatives for MrBeast haven't but responded to Newsbeat's request. Also named within the papers is a manufacturing firm, Off One's Base LLP, which BBC Newsbeat has been unable to contact.
