MrBeast's Amazon show accused of unsafe filming conditions by participants
MrBeast's new $5 million Amazon competition series Beast Games has been accused of subjecting participants to unsafe filming conditions
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A new New York Times report has accused MrBeast and his partners at Amazon of hosting unsafe conditions while holding a preliminary event for the streamer’s upcoming Amazon reality competition series Beast Games. To participate in the series (which carries a prize of $5 million, and which is the largest and most corporate-backed expansion to date of MrBeast’s whole “dance for my cash, peasants” aesthetic), 2,000 applicants were recently brought to Nevada’s Allegiant stadium for a three-day event. (Meant to winnow down the pack to the 1,000 participants who would actually appear on the show, a production of Amazon MGM.) Several of these participants allege that the production wasn’t set up to handle that large a number of people in a safe fashion, with multiple accusations of producers under-feeding participants, failing to distribute medications in a timely fashion, and otherwise failing to create a safe or hygienic filming environment.