MrBeast is facing criticism after several participants accused his team of failing to address cheating, hacking, and transphobia during a large-scale Minecraft competition featured in a recent video.
The video, titled 1000 Players Simulate Civilization: Boys vs Girls, was uploaded on December 28 to the MrBeast Gaming channel and showed 500 boys competing against 500 girls for a $50,000 prize. Its description stated that rule violations were investigated and punished, saying: “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.” The video has since drawn more than 12 million views.
Following the upload, participant and VTuber Zavvy shared a detailed account on X alleging that the event was compromised by hackers and harassment. She claimed that individuals infiltrated the girls’ team using fake identities and said, “Guys also left signs around our side of the map with swastikas and sexist messages.” Zavvy added that trans women on the team were singled out and accused of being infiltrators based on their voices, writing that “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 said she hesitated to speak out earlier, stating, “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,” and criticized the lack of transparency in the final cut of the video, adding, “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, echoed these claims in her own post, writing, “There was also a LOT of cheating going on,” and alleging that the girls’ side was infiltrated by hackers while some players were bribed to betray their own team. She said the published video did not accurately reflect the event and expressed disappointment over how the competition was ultimately presented to viewers.
