YouTuber MrBeast, Amazon sued by show contestants for alleged abuses

MrBeast, the 26-year-old multimillionaire YouTuber who is estimated by Forbes to be the platform’s highest earner, is being sued alongside Amazon by contestants of his titular reality competition show, “Beast Games,” for alleged workplace abuses. Five anonymous contestants of the show filed a class-action lawsuit against the YouTuber, Amazon and related production companies at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, claiming insufficient wages, unpaid overtime and “gross mistreatment and neglect” on set, according to a release from the plaintiffs’ attorneys..