Three participants in MrBeast’s upcoming Olympics-style YouTube competition have been left injured.
The social media star was filming ‘an Olympic-style challenge’ with competitors from all around the world on his North Carolina property which resulted in several injuries, TMZ reported.
The competition is said to have included running, hurdles and other obstacles.
The injuries occurred after the event reportedly became too intense and ‘possibly dangerous’.
However, a representative for MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, played down the nature of the incidents.
In a statement to TMZ the spokesman said: ‘MrBeast was working on an upcoming video with athletic challenges, and there were three minor medical issues out of almost 200 participants.
‘Medical personnel attended to the people immediately and released them shortly after.’
No content from the event has yet been released to the content creator’s 160 million subscribers.
Donaldson, 25, is the world’s richest YouTuber, with an estimated net worth of more than $500million.
He is is also the channel’s ‘biggest philanthropist’. His viral videos are based on extravagant stunts in which he offers lavish gifts to unwitting members of the public.
Born in Wichita, Kansas, before growing up in Greenville, North Carolina, Donaldson uploaded his first YouTube video in February 2012, aged 13.
His early content revolved around harmless pranks on friends.
His first hit was a video of him taking four hours to count to 100,000. As his following grew, Donaldson moved towards the lavish giveaways that have become his trademark.
It started small, giving away cash prizes to members of his community, but quickly gathered momentum and by 2018 he was donating $100,000 worth of products to a homeless shelter.
He has since repeated the dose to an Uber driver, a waitress, and people in parking lots.
In one video, he dropped $20,000 out of a drone and gave a pizza man the house he was delivering to as a tip.
Gareth Boyd, head of growth at Finty.com, says Donaldson outgrew other YouTubers because his stunts, which are not confined to charitable acts, ‘were totally and utterly different to anything else anyone was doing’.
‘Going to a football training ground and seeing who can hold onto an airplane the longest – what other TV show does that?’ he added.
Donaldson himself has credited his success to innovative thinking and calculated risk-taking.
He also has an eye for new opportunities and brand deals, expanding his YouTube empire into the food and drink sector.
One recent project includes MrBeast Burger, a delivery service that sold more than a million burgers before Donaldson had even uploaded a video.
He has also launched smartphone apps, started video game tournaments and landed a deal with Walmart to sell his chocolate bar Feastables.
Donaldson’s co-star Chris Tyson made headlines earlier this year after announcing that they were on hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
Tyson started HRT in February 2023, and he announced this decision in April after a Twitter user shared side-by-side photographs of him before and after, while asking: ‘Bro wtf happened’.
‘HRT, and it’s only been two months,’ Tyson wrote in response, adding that he had been learning about gender dysmorphia for 21 years after discovering his sister’s dresses in her closet.
In his announcement, Tyson said the therapy had saved his life along with ‘many others’.
‘The amount of body positivity I’ve gotten in just two months is insane,’ he said.
MrBeast, who has 144 million subscribers on YouTube, previously showed his support for his co-star by replying ‘Gotchu’ with several heart emojis to one of Tyson’s tweets.
