MrBeast Admits to Using ‘Inappropriate Language While Trying to Be Funny’ as a Teen After Clips Surface With Racist, Homophobic Comments
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mrbeast-statement-inappropriate-language-racist-homophobic-jokes-1236092656/
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The statement they gave to Variety :
> “When Jimmy was a teenager he acted like many kids and used inappropriate language while trying to be funny,” according a statement from MrBeast’s rep provided to Variety. “Over the years he has repeatedly apologized and has learned that increasing influence comes with increased responsibility to be more aware and more sensitive to the power of language. After making some bad jokes and other mistakes when he was younger, as an adult he has focused on engaging with the MrBeast community to work together on making a positive impact around the world.”
Who hasn’t done this?
Jesus Christ he’s only 26?! I know for every 100,000 streamers who try to make it only a few rise to the top like he has, but it’s *stunning* and depressing to me that he’s already set for life, by simply creating content for the internet and hitting the right vibe in the zeitgeist to become popular.
Meanwhile I’m ready to blow my brains out being an office drone for 20 years with a 401K and an adequate salary that pays me enough to “get by”.
Good for him but Jesus fuck.
Also, who hasn’t said dumb shit when they were younger, I certainly have said stuff I regret and would never say now because being edgy and shocking isn’t enough justification for being crude and punching down.
They’re gonna James Gunn him, aren’t they?
I have no clue who this guy even is. I take comfort in this.
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The comments quoted are probably some of the mildest things I’ve ever heard an edgy teenager say.
People really underestimate what the average teenager will say for a joke.
Wait, an adult is being judged for what he said as a teen?
Thank god I’m not famous
Based on all the stories coming out from the competition show he’s filming for Amazon and his channel, this isn’t the only bas press he’ll be getting.
Todd Spangler, the writer, should be fired. The editor should be fired. This is a hit piece on a guy that’s done more for other people than fucking Todd Spangler or anyone on staff at Variety has ever done. What was the point of the article, that a kid said bad words? Get a fucking life. You’re scum. Variety used to be better than this.
Email info@pmc.com if you agree. Enough of this bullshit. Stop trying to ruin peoples lives and report actual news you hacks.
I guess growth and acknowledgement of your past mistakes is no longer allowed in 2024. If you said and did stupid shit as a teenager or simply as an adult, just continue fucking up because people will hold things against you no matter what and remind you how much of a piece of shit you used to be. I don’t know how people living in glass homes can throw stones. It’s mind blowing.
i feel so bad for teens being raised on social media now. i mean, holy shit was the stuff my friends and i said not cool at all when we were 15- but we were idiots, we were learning.
the way the always online adults today think a child has to have all the learned experience of a 30 year old when they are 15 now is so fucking stupid. the whole point of being a kid is doing dumb shit, facing the consequences, and learning from it. that’s how you become an adult, learning from experience, not through living in fear of a nebulous online moral police that treats media without context, nuance or history.
I blame all you nerds for giving this loser attention
Shrug. Don’t care. Beast made his PR statement, best thing he can do is keeping on and ignore. There are always people who never forgive and nothing say or do will change that.
People really will try anything to ruin his credibility.. he was a kid.
Inappropriate Language?!?!?! OHhhhhhh Noooooooo!!!
I don’t think some edgy stuff he said as a teen is what needs to be discussed right now when there are way worse things coming out about the working conditions on his sets.
Some of the information that is coming out about his business practices and the way he runs all these events he hosts is absolutely vile and shocking.
It’s honestly the difference between growing up and just growing old.
If you think your crowd will Laugh at racist comments, you’re talking to the wrong crowd. Time to put principles before the money. Unless you too lack principles.
Canceling him over teenage shit is such cockamamie bullcrap lol
I’m glad I’m not famous because I was an immature dickhead as a teen. Who the hell hasn’t said dumb shit while they are growing up and learning to be an adult.
Leave Mr. Beast alone! There’s so many worse people you can go after
Good thing y’all didnt the shit me n me homies said….
🤣🤣🤣
The fall is coming
Man, if I had nickel every time I said something stupid as a teenager, I’d be Batman-rich!
most other dudes with his reach and cash-flow would have gone wild by now, yet he seems to remain pretty chilled and all.. that’s all they found worth sharing to trash the guy ahaha he may also have failed to wash his hands after peeing, boooo
He made jokes abt slave owning and buying ppl y’all are dickriding hard fuck mr beast
Judging adults for the dumb, edgy shit they said as teens is a braindead way to go through life.
This isn’t gonna be the worst thing we find out about him
When I was 13, I got an Xbox 360 and halo 3 with xbox live. I was a kid that did not know any better and would say the N word with the hard r whenever I was in lobbies. Was it wrong and was I an asshole? Yes. Have I learned the history and power of the N word and to never say it, yes. Will I ever say it again even if it’s for jokes and laughs? Hell no. We learn and move on. If Mr beast still to this day would continue to say such things, I’m sure he would be cancelled
There’s a lot of reasons to dislike people but things said during our teenage years should be ignored. Teenagers are still growing and at that point often mimicking adults, finding their place, and learning more about the world. I’ll be the first to admit that I use to make inappropriate trans jokes in the early 2000s because even the media treated them like the butt of a joke. Fortunately, most of us grow and learn from our mistakes.
This is not news. I said some vile shit when I was a teenager, too
Teenagers being stupid?? What next? Rain makes the ground wet??
I hate people. I don’t give a shit about Mr Beast, but it’s ridiculous that people are being held accountable for just saying stupid things as teenagers
So did everyone calling him out on Twitter. God I hate these witch hunts. He defends trans people so the Twitter mob tries to cancel him.
Almost like ever every teenage has done that…
“Teenager says dumb thing”
See I can do news too!
I don’t care if he said stupid shit as a kid. What I don’t like in his videos is he has this very fake look on his face. I don’t even know how to describe it properly. It’s like creepy game show host who doesn’t want to be there look.
What the hell does this guy do?
All the good he’s done greatly outweighs stuff millions of teens have said but no one knows. Literally no one is perfect and digging up someone’s past just feels tired.
The past is never dead. It’s not even the past. Especially now.
So glad I’m so old that my youthful dumb assery is not documented and digitally archived.
Main point aside, I think it’s funny how many people here are self reporting with “I said things 10x as bad when I was a teenager!”
…you did? You said things ten times worse than joking about owning slaves and whatever else? Like, people grow and change, don’t get me wrong, it’s just funny that people are falling over themselves to admit to having said shit that bad.
Anyway, surely this has worked out the best it possibly could have, right? Clips resurface, the guy acknowledges them and says “hey, yeah I said that, no I don’t think like that anymore,” people update their judgement of him accordingly and we all move along? Hardly “cancel culture in action” or whatever.
If Dr disrespect got cancelled then so should beast he’s a total fraud anyway always knew he was