The A+ YouTuber is about to be sued by several of his employees for wage and hour violations and working conditions.

MrBeast

MrBeast might be YouTube’s golden boy on the surface, handing out cars, curing blindness, building wells in Africa. But behind the glossy giveaways, the cracks are starting to show.

His Amazon reality series Beast Games quickly became Prime Video’s biggest unscripted hit, but not everyone left smiling. Multiple contestants have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming they were treated more like disposable props than humans.

The allegations?

Unpaid wages despite grueling hours.

Lack of food, water, and medical care on set.

No rest breaks, no hygiene products, and unsafe conditions.

And yes, even claims of a hostile, misogynistic environment.

One production partner has already been dropped from the case, but the lawsuit against MrBeast and Amazon’s production arm is still active.

The money beast

While the lawsuits swirl, Beast Industries, the business machine behind the brand is raking in insane numbers. In 2024 alone, the company pulled in nearly $500 million, mostly from media and Feastables chocolate bars. But here’s the twist: the YouTube/media side actually lost over $120 million.

Means, he makes more money selling candy bars than making the massive videos that made him famous.

Now the plan is to cut production costs, push Feastables even harder, and chase an almost cartoon-sized projection of $4.8 billion by 2029.

More than chocolate

The empire isn’t stopping at snacks. Beast Industries is eyeing drinks, health products, and even fintech, think Beast credit cards, loans, and money apps. There’s also talk of a creator marketplace to help influencers build their own mini-Beast empires.

The saint

Of course, no MrBeast story is complete without philanthropy. His charity channel keeps funding food banks and surgeries, and this summer he launched Team Water with other creators, a campaign already raising tens of millions to bring clean water to millions of people worldwide. Here is what he has been doing:

The Charity Channel

  • Beast Philanthropy, the YouTube channel and 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by MrBeast, donates 100% of its ad revenue, merchandise sales, and brand deals to charitable causes.
  • One of its main projects is The Beast Pantry, a food bank based in Greenville, North Carolina, which serves the local community.
  • Other impactful initiatives include distributing 10,000 turkeys in his hometown, donating 20,000 shoes to children in Africa, constructing 100 wells in African villages lacking clean water access, and gifting $300,000 in technology to various schools.

Medical and Humanitarian Initiatives

  • MrBeast has funded cataract surgeries for 1,000 blind individuals, hearing devices for another 1,000 hearing-impaired people, and prosthetic limbs for 2,000 people, all through his philanthropy-driven videos.
  • On top of health-related causes, he frequently incorporates special giveaways into his content, generously tipping delivery drivers, Twitch streamers, and even funding personal medical treatments.

On top… MrBeast co-founded major fundraising campaigns such as:

  • #TeamTrees, raising over $20 million to plant trees.
  • #TeamSeas, which raised over $33 million to clean marine debris.
  • His most recent initiative, #TeamWater, launched in August 2025 to raise $40 million for clean drinking water via WaterAid. As of August 27, it had already delivered over 33 million person – years of water.

So which Beast is real?

Is he the billionaire do-gooder changing lives one viral stunt at a time? Or the savvy businessman cutting corners while contestants sue for being treated like free labor?

What we know is, the Beast brand keeps feeding headlines and food banks, while the lawsuits keep piling up. The truth? That’s for the court to settle.