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I hope so. but in order for that to happen I feel like this all has to hit mainstream and the only thing I've seen hit mainstream as of now is the beast games.His charity defense shield might now be broken for good.
speaking of
just gonna drop some choice quotes, emphasis mine:
In Las Vegas, contestants reported having their medication withheld, being injured, and sleeping on stadium floors, with many saying they were speaking out in hopes that the production would improve. But according to six crew members who worked in Toronto, as well as several contestants, conditions on the reality show’s productions were dangerous.
Internal documents, NDAs, call sheets, and set photos obtained by Rolling Stone from crew members who worked on the Toronto leg of the event describe a potentially unsafe working environment that was “disorganized,” “wild,” and staffed with a crew with little experience on a project of this scale.
lmao. i don't know if this is supposed to be an excuse or make the reader think or w/e. just lmao.But Beast Games has no precedent.
this crew member gets it.“It’s a Fyre Fest kind of feeling,” one crew member who worked in Toronto and left the production early says. “There’s a reason why this level of production hasn’t been attempted before, and it certainly should never have been attempted without people that know what they are doing.”
yeah I also have a very strong "would-be-buried-alive" personality, aka psychopathy. seriously would like to see what kind of personality test has such questions lmao.The application featured questions meant to test people’s personalities, like “Are you willing to be buried alive?” and ”Are you more of a hero or a villain?”
Scott Leopold, an Austin-based actor who competed in the Vegas round of Beast Games, tells Rolling Stone that he “had no idea who MrBeast [was],” but he applied because “my kids said he’s all about helping people on philanthropic stuff.”
Leopold justified being in what he described as “deplorable conditions” because he thought being on a reality-television show “would be good for my acting.”
how am I supposed to read this? in any case, seems like a typical jimmy move in order to rig the competition in the favor of whoever he picked as a winner.According to a private group chat of more than 350 Beast Games contestants seen by Rolling Stone, challenges consisted of games like trivia, taking bribes to eliminate others from the competition, and knocking down toy towers with dodgeballs. “This might just be me, but I don’t think there’s much to report on for Toronto other than we generally are not a fan of the challenges,” one contestant wrote in the chat.
this is dangerous. while it's their own decision to lie and continue, that bag of money really fucks with their ability to actually reason things over. who wouldn't push themselves further than they normally would for a chance at winning 5 mil? imagine actually ending up with long-lasting injuries though and not winning shit. but that 5 mil tho amirite?Two contestants in the chat claimed to be “bruised” and have “muscle tears” from falling through a trapdoor after elimination. One contestant says that “everything seemed to be more in order,” but they did suffer minor injuries to their head and groin after their trapdoor unexpectedly opened. “I was able to come back in the games, but I was hurting badly,” they say. “I wanted to win the money, so I did my best to stay in, lying to the medics that I was fine.”
this just has to be displayed in bigass font somewhere in beast HQ. "I'll make it work, I'm rich"There was also a post on the Ontario Paramedic Students Facebook page on Aug. 5 looking for “any medics” interested in a 24-hour shift paying $350 for a 10-hour day. When asked in the comments if the gig was “open to students” the poster said they could “make it work.”
On Aug. 6, a call went out on Facebook for “Challenge Testers” to “perform a variety of physical and mental challenges, including heights, small spaces, drops, and obstacle courses.” They would be paid $100 for six hours, or $200 for 12-hour shifts.
“We just weren’t seen as human beings; we were seen as a means to an end,” the crew member who worked in a hangar says. “Although, luckily, this production was able to move forward without any union behind it, it also makes the workers have to fight for their rights.”
The employees Rolling Stone spoke with describe an environment that was fast-paced, but loose when it came to safety. Days regularly went past 12 hours and employees were often tasked with working more than seven days in a row. Rolling Stone reviewed the pay stubs for one crew member who worked more than 80 hours in one week.
the weather thing is actually kinda crazy if it's all true:
The MrBeast Las Vegas promotional video shoot, which included over 2,000 participants, was unfortunately complicated by the CrowdStrike incident, extreme weather... [snip]
On Aug. 17, Toronto experienced a large storm and record-breaking rainfall that flooded the set. They stopped actively filming for 36 hours but, says one production assistant, workers were “told to keep working with piles of electrical equipment literally submerged under water.” They “were squeegeeing hangars and trying to keep the water away from equipment,” and “the work definitely didn’t stop when the rain was on,” the PA says. “It was flooding from the floor up and from the ceiling down,” another PA says about one of the hangars. “We were bagging up electrical equipment, but it didn’t matter, it was pouring in everywhere.”
insane. just insane.One picture, reviewed by Rolling Stone, shows a collection of plugged-in cables submerged underwater. Another showed a young man in one of the production facilities holding cables above his head while standing in at least an inch of water. According to the CalArts School of Film and Video, “using electricity of any kind in wet weather conditions is very dangerous and should not be done.”
(A source close to production says that “as soon as it became clear that there was an issue with the rain and the water, the crew and production secured the equipment and then as soon as conditions improved, production continued.”)
yeah i'm kinda done there's more in it but this already took me long enough.
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