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

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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.

His average follower is younger than 18 and his channel is designed for young adults and children. Over the last few months, MrBeast’s sidekick has gone from looking like one of his guy pals to looking “more and more feminine,” subjecting millions of children worldwide to his public transformation and changing the “entire dynamic of the show,” as Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro noted on a recent episode of The Ben Shapiro Show.”

Tyson is a 26-year old man who tied the knot with fellow influencer Katie Tyson in 2018 and the two share a 2-year-old son together. In March 2023, before announcing he was taking hormones, Tyson shared that the pair had been separated since 2022.

Earlier this month, Tyson tweeted about taking HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) when one Twitter user noted how different the sidekick looked.

“I’m genuinely so glad so many people are learning what HRT is and how it CAN and HAS helped so many people because of my tweet,” Tyson wrote in April. “But seeing conversations started [because] of me is amazing.”

“Informed consent HRT saved my and many others’ lives,” Tyson added. “The hurdles GNC people have to jump through to get life-saving gender-affirming healthcare in a 1st world country is wild to me. Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies.”

Later, Tyson faced a backlash for the move subjecting not only millions of kids to the transgender push, but also his own son Tucker, who critics said was losing a much needed father figure in his life.

He hit back and wrote, “I know I’m going to be a great parent, and so is every other person who puts the love of their child before everything. I made this decision because I wanted to show up as my best and happiest self for him. In a way, this way FOR Tucker.”

In a follow-up tweet Tyson wrote, “I won’t let people talk about how I ‘abandoned my child.’ He is the only priority in my life. I have his love and support and that is all I need. I’m doing this for him. If that confuses you, educate yourself. It that makes you mad. Leave. Simple. “

MrBeast has seen the criticism and defended his pal, calling the backlash transphobic when he responded to a tweet with a headline that read, “Why Chris Will Soon Be A Nightmare For MrBeast.”

“Yeah, this is getting absurd,” Donaldson tweeted. “Chris isn’t my ‘nightmare’ he’s my f***en friend and things are fine. All this transphobia is starting to piss me off.” MrBeast made that tweet on April 13 and has yet to say anything further.

Tyson’s changes have not escaped fans of the show either, as The Federalist noted. The writer wrote that his 9- and 7-year-old kids have noticed Tyson’s gone from appearing very masculine with facial hair to none at all, sporting longer hair, painted nails and dressing in sweaters for ladies.

“He’s acting weird,” the writer wrote about his conversation with his son. And his daughter said, “He [Tyson] wants everyone to see his nails and hair. He keeps showing them off. He drops things on purpose just so he can pick them up with his nails.” He said Tyson’s changes forced their family to have a “conversation” about what was going on with Chris, with his kids deciding they didn’t want to watch the show anymore, the outlet noted.

During a recent appearance by Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles on the Sirius XM “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast, the former Fox News host and Knowles talked about MrBeast’s sidekick’s trans transformation.

Knowles said the move by Tyson brings up a bigger question about what is going on when a guy who’s almost 30 just wakes up one day and “after getting married, after having a kid, after being a dude for his whole life, one day he just decided that he’s a woman.”

“And what I strongly suspect is that one of the drivers of this is something that no one wants to talk about with the transgender explosion,” he added. “And that is pornography.”

The two then talked about how Tyson had had “all sorts of strange posts about really bizarre types of pornography” and Knowles said that the only reason he brought it up is to show that MrBeast’s sidekick is “fluent in the language of pornography.”

Kelly said that they had discussed it on the show previously calling “this particular anime” ‘dark’” and said that once a person gets married and has children, it’s “utterly selfish and inhumane to go through with this” trans move.

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