YouTuber MrBeast has been named in court docket paperwork which allege contestants had been “shamelessly exploited” in his upcoming collection Beast Video games.
Individuals who took half have sued the manufacturing corporations concerned within the present, which embrace MrB2024 and Amazon.
The collection, first introduced in March, provided 1,000 contributors the possibility to win a money prize of $5m (£3.5m) and promised to be the most important dwell sport present on this planet.
However in a case filed at a Los Angeles court docket on Monday, contributors allege they weren’t paid, had been subjected to unsafe situations and skilled sexual harassment.
Paperwork say MrB2024 is “believed to be owned in entire or half, immediately or not directly”, by MrBeast – actual title Jimmy Donaldson – who’s the most important YouTuber on this planet with greater than 300m subscribers.
BBC Newsbeat has contacted MrBeast and Amazon for remark.
Within the authorized papers, components 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 after they slept, what they wore and denied them privateness and entry to the skin world.
They had been “underfed and overtired”, it claims, with meals offered “sporadically and sparsely” which “endangered the well being and welfare” of the contestants.
The 54-page doc additionally particulars allegations of an unsafe setting with contestants being penned into small areas, harmful units and inadequate background checks permitting convicted criminals to take part.
Some, it claims, had been bodily injured and weren’t given sufficient entry to medical care.
‘Tradition of misogyny’
The set was additionally mentioned to have “fostered a tradition of misogyny and sexism”, making a “hostile setting” for ladies which included sexual harassment.
“This was not solely seen however allowed,” the doc says. “And apparently this was allowed due to marching orders from the highest.”
The contestants’ attorneys say they need to be compensated for his or her time which they are saying was “important labour” for the manufacturing, arguing they had been “not working without cost” and will have been classed as staff.
All of 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 mentioned he didn’t “condone or help any of the inappropriate actions”.
Representatives for MrBeast and Amazon haven’t responded to Newsbeat’s request for remark. Additionally named within the papers is a manufacturing firm, Off One’s Base LLP, which BBC Newsbeat has been unable to contact.