• paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I don’t want to defend Mr. Beast. I’ve never watched any of his content. But the criticisms of him seem to be things like how distasteful performative charity is. And like, a few minor business disputes. And possibly being a bit too quick to dismiss someone on his team who allegedly groomed minors.

    Jake Paul has been accused of sexual assault and is pretty well established as racist. Heck, he wore Hulk Hogan swag the night of this match. He’s pushed outright crypto scams on his followers.

    Andrew Tate has more than a decade of plenty of accusations of sexual assault, including against minors, and human trafficking. He has paid out millions of dollars and still has outstanding criminal cases in multiple countries.

    I don’t know any of these people personally, but just looking at publicly available information from a distance it seems unfair to Mr. Beast to put him in the same group as actual criminals, racists, and sex offenders. It’s okay to just mildly dislike people.