YouTubers like Mr Beast are coming for Hollywood Scandals will not be enough to stop a new generation from taking over An illustration depicting a smartphone and a television, both displaying the YouTube logo on red screens. The phone and TV screens are warped, bending and merging into each other.

Illustration: Rob & Robin Sep 22nd 2024

FIVE MILLION DOLLARS were on offer to contestants in “Beast Games”, a new game show being made for Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service. Instead, some participants received physical injuries, emotional distress and sexual harassment, according to a complaint filed in a Los Angeles court on September 16th. Amazon and the show’s creator, Jimmy Donaldson, a 26-year-old YouTuber known as MrBeast, have not commented on the lawsuit. But the fiasco has reassured some Hollywood executives that they have little to fear from social-media upstarts.

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