YouTube’s Smash Hit ‘MrBeast’ Faces Quandary As Biological Male Sidekick Goes Public With Gender Transition
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YouTube’s Smash Hit ‘MrBeast’ Faces Quandary As Biological Male Sidekick Goes Public With Gender Transition

Katie Jerkovich

Popular YouTube children’s show MrBeast has gone woke after his biological male friend Chris Tyson, who often appears in his videos, recently revealed he’s taking hormones and is undergoing a gender transition.

Jimmy Donaldson, aka ‘MrBeast,’ launched the platform in 2012 and has gained millions of young fans over the last decade as he and his friends like Tyson do crazy, wild stunts, and viral challenges. As of April 2023, the 24-year-old influencer is one of the most popular YouTubers on the site with more than 300 million subscribers across 19 domestic and international channels. His videos have been translated into 11 languages, The New York Post noted.

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