The Real Reasons Every MrBeast Crew Member Was Fired Or Quit

Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson has had one of the most incendiary YouTube careers of all time. In a decade MrBeast has gone from counting to 100,000 alone in his room to running a content creation empire that's able to build 100 homes around the globe just to produce a 10 minute video. No one does it like MrBeast, and for YouTube fans all over the world, working with him would be a dream come true.

You don't become one of the biggest creators online without ruffling a few feathers. MrBeast has a dedicated crew that fans have come to know and love over the years, but the crew hasn't always been made up of the same people. We've seen some of MrBeast's on-camera comrades come and go, and not all of them have been happy with their experience. Some of MrBeast's crew members have left the team in a rage, and others have quietly moved on to the next phase of their careers. Not everyone has revealed the exact reasons for their departure, but most of them have a story to tell. With that in mind, we're here to share with you the real reasons everyone left MrBeast's crew.

Matt Turner was one of MrBeast's video editors, but he didn't part ways with the content creator on good terms. Turner was ousted in August 2018, but a little over a year later he made a series of now-deleted posts claiming that MrBeast had been an abusive boss. According to Dexerto, Turner wrote, "I was yelled at, bullied, called mentally retarded and replaceable by Mr Beast every day." Two years later, The New York Times published a piece examining MrBeast's shady side, and Turner is quoted in it saying, "I was not to be credited for anything I did. I'd ask for credit, he'd credit someone else."

MrBeast has a different view on the story, and some people who know him came forward to push back against Turner's claims. When Turner first made his posts claiming MrBeast was abusive, Keemstar pointed out that when Turner initially left the crew, he said working with MrBeast was an amazing experience. MrBeast has admitted that his business can be stressful, but he said that he treated Turner well and even gave him $10,000 and a recommendation for a job at a gaming company as severance.

Matt Turner isn't the only person who says they had a bad experience while working for MrBeast. Around the same time that Turner left the crew, MrBeast lost another editor called Nate "Flyy" Anderson In October 2019, Flyy posted a statement saying, "I made a video explaining my experience while I [edited for MrBeast], and I basically said it was one of the worst consecutive weeks of my life."

Flyy later removed his video from YouTube, claiming that he was receiving too many hateful comments and death threats from diehard MrBeast fans. That wasn't the last time he spoke about his experience on the crew, however. Like Turner, Flyy shared his experience with The New York Times, saying, ""Nothing ever worked for him. He always wanted it a certain way." Unlike Turner, Flyy quit the crew on his own terms, and at no point has he been quoted saying anything positive about his time working with MrBeast.

Jake the Viking worked with MrBeast during one of the most exciting times in his channel's history. Jake's first video with MrBeast was "Do Water Repellant Shoes Actually Work?" which came out in the summer of 2018. At that time, a ton of the videos that MrBeast put out were focused on physical challenges, and thanks to his viking-like build, Jake fit into that approach perfectly. After initially making constant appearances in videos, fans started seeing less and less of Jake until he made his final appearance in MrBeast's "$60,000 Extreme Hide-and-Seek" video in January 2020.

In that time, MrBeast's channel grew from about 4 million subscribers to 30 million, and even though he was just one of a handful of crew members, Jake the Viking started gaining a small following of his own. A few months after fans had stopped seeing Jake in MrBeast's videos, he posted an explanation of what had happened to his own YouTube channel. "It came down to," Jake said, "my piece no longer fit the puzzle." He didn't have a place on the channel anymore, but at the same time, he was itching to start pursuing an independent content creation career. Because of that, Jake the Viking and MrBeast were able to leave things on good terms. However, the good vibes did not last forever. As allegations of sexual misconduct began to pour out surrounding former crew member Ava Kris Tyson, Jake posted, "After seeing all this, I'm glad they fired me."

It feels a little strange to think about now, but there was a time when Sneako worked for MrBeast. All the way back in 2014 — basically 1,000 years ago in internet time — MrBeast posted a video talking about his favorite small YouTubers, and Sneako made the cut. Four years later, Sneako wasn't doing much work on YouTube, so MrBeast brought him onto the crew. Sneako's first MrBeast appearance was in the 2018 video "I Built A Working Car Using Only LEGOs." After that Sneako spent a little more time with the crew, but it wasn't long before they parted ways.

In a video titled "The Most Important Lesson I learned working for MrBeast," Sneako told his side of the story and explained why, even though it was short lived, he really appreciated his time on the crew. "I started working for MrBeast two years ago," Sneako said. "It didn't last long because I got caught up with my ego. I was working for a guy who used to be my fan." When Sneako was able to get past his ego and look back on his time working for MrBeast, he realized that the way MrBeast operated his channel like a business was deeply inspiring. "I honestly can say that I think about what he told me pretty much every single day."

Some people have left MrBeast's crew on bad terms, but Marcus Pearson arguably had the most volatile exit from the team. Pearson's MrBeast journey began in 2019, but it ended not quite a year later. In early 2020 fans stopped seeing Pearson in MrBeast's videos, and by the end of the year he was officially not part of the channel.

We still don't exactly know why Pearson was fired. The timing suggests that the Covid pandemic, which massively slowed down MrBeast's production, had something to do with it. The internet has also spread rumors that Pearson's firing had something to do with a drug problem, but those rumors seem to only be based on Pearson's reaction to being let go. He didn't take the firing well and posted a nearly 15 minute rant about MrBeast to his Instagram story. The rant is a bit scattered, but in it Pearson takes issue with the way MrBeast fired him and threatens to expose some kind of wrongdoing that involves MrBeast. People didn't take Pearson's rant too seriously, in part because of a segment when he seems to imply a belief that MrBeast created the pandemic. Clearly Pearson was emotional while filming the video, but after that he basically dropped off the internet and has hardly been seen since.

As we've seen, quite a handful of crew members have left the MrBeast team over the years, but none of them have done so quite as publicly and dramatically as Ava Tyson. MrBeast and Tyson have been friends for years, and Tyson was a part of the MrBeast crew from the very beginning. Then in July 2024, disturbing allegations about Tyson started circulating online, and everything fell apart.

Tyson has been accused of messaging and maintaining an inappropriate relationship with an underage fan of MrBeast. Tyson began messaging the fan, who goes by LavaGS, on Discord when Lava was just 13 years old. People started sharing screenshots of Tyson sending sexual jokes to Lava, and even though Lava himself said that Tyson had done nothing wrong, public pressure for Tyson to leave the crew mounted.

There are some things about the Tyson controversy that still don't make much sense. Tyson announced via X, formerly Twitter, that she and MrBeast had mutually decided for her to leave the crew, but a day later MrBeast himself made a post claiming he fired Tyson. MrBeast also said that he was hiring an independent investigator to look into the allegations, and his fans hoped that the results of the investigation would clear up all the lingering questions they had about Tyson's behavior and relationship with Lava. In the days that followed this announcement, even worse allegations were leveled against Tyson, and the outcome of MrBeast's investigation has yet to be revealed.

Of course, with as many years as MrBeast has been creating content for YouTube and as many people he's had on his team, there have been quite a few people who left the crew on good terms. Even though Jake the Viking was let go, he doesn't seem to harbor many bad feelings about his work with MrBeast. There have also been other crew members, like Ty, Tyler Conklin, and Garrett Ronalds, who eventually moved from an on-camera to a behind-the-scenes role on the crew.

Then there's Jake Weddle. He began working with MrBeast as a writer and made his first on-camera appearance in the 2019 video "Standing Still For 24 Hours Straight – Statue Challenge." Less than a year after that video Weddle made his exit from the crew, but it wasn't because of any bad blood. Weddle posted his own video explaining that he decided to leave because he wanted to pursue his own comedy and was feeling stressed about his work with MrBeast, particularly because of how popular the channel had become in his time there. "There was no bad vibes [sic] either way," Weddle said. "I'm good." This time around, all's well that ends well.