MrBeast Fires Multiple Employees Over Workplace Harassment

November 1, 2024

Key Takeaways

MrBeast has published the findings of a three-month-long investigation into his company, following grooming allegations aimed at longtime employee Ava Tyson.
According to the investigation, no evidence of sexual harassment or grooming was found, though several “isolated instances” of workplace harassment were.
MrBeast has subsequently terminated several employees involved, and has begun seeking a new CEO and other exectuive roles.

Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson is currently jumping between controversy to controversy at the minute, as the YouTuber has done pretty much everything he could in the past few months to annoy fans and to somewhat sink his online reputation. It all kicked off earlier this year, following allegations made against the company MrBeast that longtime employee Ava Tyson had groomed a young fan.

After supposedly discovering these allegations for the first time back in July (something which YouTuber Rosanna Pansino strongly disputes), MrBeast ordered a thorough investigation into his company. Three months later, MrBeast announced via his personal Twitter account that this investigation had concluded on November 1. While there was no evidence of sexual harassment or grooming, the investigation did turn up several “isolated instances” of workplace harassment and misconduct.

MrBeast Fires Multiple Employees Over Workplace Harassment

In the findings that MrBeast published on social media, it was explained that the YouTuber’s company did not have “policies and practices essential in a mature company”, which allowed “inappropriate conduct”. In an attempt to try and address these problems, it was revealed that MrBeast has already gone about making changes, having fired several employees, and is in the process of finding a new CEO as well as other executive roles.

It was also explained that the company is working on codifying new polices in an employee handbook, implementing mandatory corporate training for all employees, establishing an anonymous reporting mechanism, and identifying additional employees for targeted training to improve behavior. All of these are very welcome policy changes that should ideally have an immediate impact on the inner workings of the company.

However, it’s worth noting that this investigation does not clear MrBeast of any wrongdoing regarding the other scandals in which he’s recently found himself. MrBeast is still yet to clear up the issues concerning mold found in several Lunchly products, as well as allegations surrounding a series of “pump and dump” crypto scams that have reportedly seen the YouTuber earn over $20 million in profit.