From baking to MrBeast: Meet the YouTuber taking on the platform’s biggest creator
LOS ANGELES — The packets of documents strewn across a table in Rosanna Pansino’s office aren’t immediately decipherable — even to someone who has closely followed her crusade against the internet’s most popular creator: MrBeast.
LOS ANGELES — The packets of documents strewn across a table in Rosanna Pansino’s office aren’t immediately decipherable — even to someone who has closely followed her crusade against the internet’s most popular creator: MrBeast.
Some are heavy with text and marked up with highlighters. Others feature screenshots of social media posts. The most ornate Pansino created herself: a hand-drawn diagram mapping a large and complex network of companies and people Pansino believes are affiliated with MrBeast, one of the most successful and popular content creators in the history of the internet.
Over the past month or so, Pansino has aggregated various allegations she says she received about unsafe work conditions during the filming of MrBeast’s upcoming Amazon Prime Video reality show “Beast Games,” which promises an expected 1,000 contestants the chance to win a $5 million cash prize. More recently, she added to her investigation a flurry of other accusations made by others both online and offline.
It’s a departure from the lighthearted baking videos that made Pansino, 39, one of YouTube’s first stars.
“I thought maybe I’d retire in a few years, because I’m just in that happy place,” she said, sitting in her living room after organizing her notes. “But it’s really awakened something in me, where, after you hear all these stories and you see everything going on, I can’t in good conscience do nothing.”
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