The real reason why this wasn't talked about a year ago is simple and easy!
Mr.Beast was still working with Night Media.
What is Night Media? An agency owned by Disney that is involved with pretty much all most famous Youtubers and Streamers. Unfortunately, I cannot get access to the full list of who is connected to them, because they made it impossible for a normal guy to get his hands on that.
But there is a copy of it in the Wayback.machine and an archive of it, in case it gets wiped.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240305054713/https://www.night.co/talent https://archive.fo/FVJBf
Just look at how many e-celebs were all being controlled by Disney. Imagine how many internet communities they can influence. They don't need to own everyone, they just need to own enough people to force everyone else to be quiet. And that's what Disney did when people started talking about Chris Tyson, they just made every e-celeb shut up or talk of the poor trans person.
Now here is a fun thing. At around 10:30 of the video below, Keemstar himself admits that Night Media purchased his management company, saying that he talked with his contacts there about Mr. Beast. This means that the gnome has a relationship with them as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQY5pBUMzKI