MrBeast’s ‘Boys vs Girls’ competition hit with accusations of sabotage, cheating and ‘transphobia’

YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast, is under fire for a recent Minecraft competition video that was marred by cheating and “transphobia“, participants claim. 

The 27-year-old pitted 500 girls against 500 boys for a cash prize of $50,000 in ‘1000 Players Simulate Civilization: Boys vs Girls’. However, since the upload, a number of participants have come forward with claims of transphobia, hackers and cheating.

The video was uploaded on Sunday (28 December) to his MrBeast Gaming channel (52.9M subscribers). At the time of writing, the video has over 12,400,000 views.

The video’s description details: “If a player broke the rules they agreed to in any way or lied… they were banned by the staff who were monitoring 24/7 after an investigation.”

Following the upload, participant and VTuber Zavvy shared a lengthy post on X outlining her experience. She detailed that Russian men used AI images and deepfakes to infiltrate the girls’ team, sabotaging the event.

“Guys also left signs around our side of the map with swastikas and sexist messages,” she wrote.

‘it started this huge fight on the girls’ side about transphobia’

She went on to outline that the girls’ team included trans women: “a lot of girls began reporting/targeting our trans girlies as infiltrators just because of the pitches of their voices and it started this huge fight on the girls’ side about transphobia and such.”

Zavvy also claimed that the contest did not attract enough female applicants. She claims MrBeast’s team sent invites to “any girl who showed an interest in playing on a MrBeast Minecraft server.”

“I didn’t know if I wanted to say something or not because I didn’t want to diminish my chances of being invited to another Mr Beast event,” she also shared. “But nobody else is speaking up and I’m just seeing too much hate on the girls not to say something. 

“I wish they would’ve said something about all of this in the actual video instead of leaving a vague thing in their description about cheaters being banned.”

Another participant, Twitch streamer Phoefi, also posted on X, echoing Zavvy’s claims.

“There was also a LOT of cheating going on,” she wrote. “The girls’ side got infiltrated by Russian hackers, and boys were bribing girls to kill members of their own team.

“I’m just disappointed because the final cut wasn’t a good depiction of what actually happened during the event.

“So many cute/funny moments could have been included for depth and layers, but it only focused on one plot based around a handful of players. For an hour-long video, it felt contrived and predictable.”

PinkNews has reached out to MrBeast’s representatives for comment.