# Have heard of MrBeast - if so, how much

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 7, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-heard-of-mrbeast-if-so-how-much/1029900 "2026-05-07T23:20:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-heard-of-mrbeast-if-so-how-much/1029900/101 "2026-05-10T21:23:26Z")

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In the summer of 2024, he hosted the “Beast Games” at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, but [some contestants complained](https://apnews.com/article/mrbeast-jimmy-donaldson-philanthropy-amazon-e1c450696dcf0f7f521449294023a2d9) of a lack of food or access to medicine or hygiene products (such as menstrual pads). The two thousand contestants were restricted to the field, where they slept in sleeping bags and [were provided with about a dozen porta-potties](https://news3lv.com/news/local/las-vegas-staff-say-mrbeast-should-be-blacklisted-cite-osha-setting-medics-for-failure). In short, he doesn’t seem equipped to host large-scale events.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-heard-of-mrbeast-if-so-how-much/1029900/102 "2026-05-10T21:30:41Z")

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A sorta more successful version of Firefest.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-heard-of-mrbeast-if-so-how-much/1029900/103 "2026-05-10T21:39:06Z")

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That’s Fyre Festival. The Y is how you know it’s real.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-heard-of-mrbeast-if-so-how-much/1029900/104 "2026-05-10T21:44:40Z")

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Thank you. I was going from fuzzy memory and didn’t really want to google for fear of attracting more of the same.

Which non-googling is how I’ve managed to never see anything MrBeast except in this and the other thread.

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**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-heard-of-mrbeast-if-so-how-much/1029900/105 "2026-05-10T23:34:34Z")

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I saw this one, it was 500k actually.

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