MrBeast’s Bizarre $50,000 “Boys Vs Girls” Minecraft Competition Ends With Accusations Of Cheating, Transphobia, And AI Sabotage
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MrBeast recently hosted a Minecraft competition that pit 500 girls against 500 boys for a cash prize of $50,000, and while the video description alludes to the usual cheating, sabotage, false applications, and bans that you’d expect from an event of this size, that only scratches the surface of what went wrong.
One participant, @ZavvyGamer, posted a lengthy list of allegations about the competition to X, claiming that Russian men used AI images and deepfakes to infiltrate the girls’ team and “start mass murdering every girl they could see”, even placing signs around their side of the map adorned in “swastikas and sexist messages”.
“This went on for irl DAYS out of a week long competition,” @ZavvyGamer explained. “I think It’s important to note that there wasn’t even a way for us to report things in the Discord server until [Makio] and other girls mass-pinged the staff for this functionality.”
Twitch streamer Phoefi likewise claimed that “the girls side got infiltrated by Russian hackers, and boys were bribing girls to kill members of their own team in exchange for DoorDash”.
I’m not sure if it was ever confirmed, but there were also reports of girls selling their accounts to guys as well.
Between Russian infiltrators, bribes, false applications, and hackers, there was a lot of mistrust within the girls’ team, and unfortunately, that was directed towards trans women, who were allegedly targeted “just because of the pitches of their voice”, starting “a huge fight on the girls’ side about transphobia”.
It Was Reportedly Billed As A CIV Event, Not A PvP One
However, the problems started before the competition had even begun. “This was marketed initially as a CIV event, not a PvP event,” claimed @ZavvyGamer. “There was such a low amount of girls apply initially [sic] that they started to just send the Discord server invite to any girl who showed an interest in playing on a MrBeast Minecraft server. The amount of girls who were invited who didn’t even know how to make a crafting table was insane.”
Players from the boy team, like @JustQuacko, refute this, claiming that it was always advertised as a PvP event.
This divide between the girl and boy teams is something that numerous players have pointed out, like @UtibaCore, who alleged that “MrBeast might [have] been a bit biased towards the boys to try and help them win”, possibly even leaking their location and giving out hints. Phoefi also alleged that “staff kept randomly reviving problematic people” to give them additional screen time. “There was definitely favouritism going on and the storyline got quite manipulated in the end,” she claimed.
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None of this was mentioned in the video, only alluded to in the description, and at no point was the competition stopped to improve moderation and ensure that things were being run fairly. Phoefi is “hoping” to release a video showing her perspective soon, so we may gain clarity on what really happened during the event, but participants like @ZavvyGamer have voiced their frustration that all of this was scrubbed from the final cut, painting the girls in a much worse light.
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