By 2018, MrBeast’s star was continuing to rise. As his videos attracted millions of viewers, he was raking in millions of dollars. Controversy erupted after the publication of a 2018 expose in The Atlantic, which took a deep dive into his social media and emerged with some disturbing information.
According to the article’s author, Taylor Lorenz, MrBeast had uploaded some YouTube videos in which he mocked gay people, while some of his old posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, contained homophobic slurs. Not all of these, noted Lorenz, were from the distant past; he’d used a particular three-letter slur as recently as the previous December, just a few short months before the article came out.
When contacted by the magazine and asked for comment, MrBeast insisted he’d done nothing wrong. “I’m not offensive toward anyone,” he said. “I’m not offensive in the slightest bit in anything I do. I’m just going to ignore it. I don’t think anyone cares about this stuff.” He then asked Lorenz if he could not mention the homophobia, and instead run a positive feature on him; when Lorenz informed him that wasn’t how it worked, he replied, “I’m just a dumb kid that makes YouTube videos and I don’t like doing interviews,” and then ended the call. Within minutes, Lorenz wrote, all the those past tweets using that objectionable word had been deleted.
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