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What’s happening with Mr. Beast? I’m out of the loop.
His Lunchables competitor that he launched with Logan Paul and KSI isn't sealed properly, leading to the food going moldy. His best friend of many years was outed as a child predator and there's evidence to suggest he's known for years.
"was outed as"
i'm not defending Mr. Beast here but from what i've read the friend of his, Ava?, was only accused of that, without any actual evidence, and even the person she allegedly groomed came out in her defence. Seeing as she's a trans woman and the right wingers are trying very hard to paint every trans person as a pedo i'm skeptical if those accusations hold much water
it feels like every other celebrity is getting accused of grooming, which is either a plague, or the definition of "grooming" has drifted to include "an adult that has conversations with teenagers"
No. Ava is a genuine predator and piece of shit. The stuff she's openly admitted to is damming, while her creepy behavior is well documented by multiple people, including queer people.
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She was openly a part of the whole "loli hentai is fine" community, not simply participating in those circles, but publicly posting about that shit.It is not ok to message minors without parental supervision in the entertainment industry. Celebrities cannot DM minors like that. It allows them to leverage their power for exploitation, sexual or otherwise. It's why Drake's contact with young girls like Millie Bobby Brown was so fucked. The victims overestimate their own maturity. I've seen it happen. It's nothing new.
Ava does not deserve a pass. If anything, we need to stand against people like her and make it clear that her identity plays no part in how we view her. Pedophiles exist in any social group; what matters is how that group's culture allows it to continue, or shuts it down.
Ava and Mr. Beast come from a toxic subculture that does not take issues of abuse seriously. There's a reason he always carried water for capitalism with his exploitative philanthropy entertainment. He's a right-wing libertarian, and those people tend to not keep the best company. Ava being awful isn't surprising.
It's strange that it's coming from a baking YouTuber of all places, but Rosanna Pansino has been on a bit of an evidence crusade against Mr Beast.
https://youtu.be/kxiFEkjRpqU?si=V-XovFK-YC0XqGPc