A former employee of YouTuber Mr Beast has accused him of knowingly hiring a registered sex offender just weeks after his co-host Ava Kris Tyson was forced to resign amid allegations of “sexual harassment”.
This comes weeks after a series of accusations of racism and sexually inappropriate comments against Mr. Beast.
In an interview with YouTuber DogPack404, former Mr Beast employee Jake Weddle made a new allegation against the YouTube star (real name Jimmy Donaldson), accusing him of knowingly hiring a sex offender during his time there. However, these allegations have nothing to do with former co-host Tyson.
“Well, there was a known sex offender, a registered sex offender, a convicted sex offender on the registry and everything, that worked there,” Weddle said in the clip, but did not reveal the person’s identity.
According to Weddle, Mr. Beas, whose net worth is estimated at… 700 million dollars, He knew about the person’s alleged history of doing “not so nice things to some underage people”, adding that Mr Beast “covered up the fact” that he worked there by forcing him to wear masks in his videos.
However, Weddle said the person, who no longer works for Mr Beast’s YouTube channel, was identified internally as ‘Delaware’.
Mr Beast (pictured) knowingly hired a registered sex offender, his former employee Jake Weddle claimed in an interview
Jake Weddle appeared in a video on the DogPack404 YouTube channel on Thursday, in which he made the claims about Mr Beast.
The allegations come after MrBeast’s co-host left the channel last month after being accused of sending “inappropriate” messages to a 13-year-old boy.
Since the interview, social media users have attempted to identify the person. Jake Franklin, who is also a former employee of Mr Beast, took to X to confirm that the person was his brother-in-law.
“Here’s the truth: Delaware is my brother-in-law. Yes, he’s a law enforcement officer. When he was 21, a 16-year-old girl accused him and others of being an SA when she was 11. Delaware took a plea deal. That’s why he didn’t get any jail time, but he still had to register,” Franklin said.
He added that the incident occurred in 2010 and that Delaware was not hired by Mr Beast until 2017/2018.
She also noted that Delaware “sat down with Jimmy and Sue (Jimmy’s mother) and explained everything to them. So yes, Kimmy knew.”
He added that Delaware was supposed to be a behind-the-scenes administrator, but had been asked to participate in some videos when people were needed.
Franklin also noted that Delaware had been reluctant to participate in the videos, hence his masked status.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Mr Beast team for comment.
In recent weeks, Mr Beast has been under scrutiny following a series of accusations against him and his channel.
Mr Beast was recently the subject of accusations of racism and sexually inappropriate comments after old videos resurfaced on social media.
Last month, Mr Beast co-host Ava Kris Tyson quit the popular YouTube channel, which has more than 300 million subscribers, after addressing claims she had an “inappropriate” relationship with a child, apologising to “those who feel betrayed”.
He added that he did not want the accusations to affect the people who worked at MrBeast, “that’s why I left.”
Tyson is alleged to have sent sexually explicit messages to a minor he met when she was 13 and 20.
The couple reportedly met after the boy won an online competition.
At the time, Tyson was known to YouTube fans as ‘Chris’ because she had not yet changed her gender identity.
Tyson, who has a son with his ex-wife, is said to have spent years communicating with the fan on public online forums before meeting her in person when the teenager turned 16.
The fan, now an adult, says he is not a victim and has defended Tyson, but has admitted some of the messages were “inappropriate” and “edgy”.
Since the relationship was revealed in a series of exposé-style videos and clips, several of Tyson’s controversial posts have resurfaced.
Just days after Tyson’s departure, Mr Beast was targeted with accusations of racism and sexually inappropriate comments after old videos resurfaced on social media.
In one of the videos, which X users say was recorded in 2017, the YouTube star responds to comments from fans that appear to be related to the sale of black people.
The other includes an excerpt from her appearance on the racy podcast Hot Wet Soup during which she apparently asks the show’s hosts if they would have sex with the ‘Cash Me Ousside girl’, better known today as Bhad Bhabie.
The rapper was approximately 14 years old at the time the interview was conducted, meaning Donaldson was around 19 years old.
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