MrBeast’s mammoth 1,000-player Minecraft video has come into question after participants alleged that a number of boys invaded the girls’ team and caused havoc.
The newest upload on the MrBeast Gaming channel pit 500 boys against 500 girls in a Minecraft competition. With $50,000 at stake for the winning team, it was survival of the fittest. The side with the most players left alive at the end was declared the winner.
Spread over a week of filming, the event was edited down into a nearly hour-long YouTube video. However, since the time of publishing, it’s drawn a great deal of backlash online – namely, from a handful of participants.
In particular, some of the girls’ side claimed “Russian guys” had infiltrated their team, killing players en masse to rig the competition.
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The video’s description helps set the scene. The production took in the “first 500 boys and 500 girls who joined in a chronological order” when the Minecraft server went live, as the statement outlined.
Keeping tabs on 1,000 players all at once is a herculean task, but a team of staff was on the lookout for any who broke the server’s rules or “lied on their application.” If found guilty, they were “banned by the staff,” and the next boy or girl in line would fill their position, they explained.
With permadeath enabled, kills were incredibly important. So when a number of players on the girls’ team died early on, it raised eyebrows. VTuber Zavvy, who participated in the recording, was the first to speak up.
They claimed a number of “Russian guys,” made AI images in order to get on the girls’ team, to then kill every girl they could. “This went on for days.” Moreover, alleged screenshots also show Russian players leaving explicit messages on signs for the girls’ side to see.
Streamer Phoefi supported the initial claims, stating “the girls’ side got infiltrated by Russian hackers” and that the final cut of the video “wasn’t a good depiction of what actually happened.”
One player shared a screenshot of a Discord message from an alleged event moderator confirming the impact of deepfakes when composing the teams.
Multiple players then reported some girls selling their accounts to guys in order to sabotage the competition. In one example, they were supposedly sold in exchange for food through Uber Eats, though this claim is unverified.
By the time investigations were conducted and players were returned after “wrongful deaths… the event was almost over,” Zavvy claimed.
Other participants have fired back, however, arguing “Mr Beast’s team was trying their best” and that “staff were very helpful reviving people who died in unfair ways.”
Ultimately, the boys’ side won and claimed the $50,000 prize, but not without controversy. The drama spread across social media, drawing millions of impressions as backlash mounted.
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