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Mr. Beast is in some trouble.

He is now not only getting sued, he is in the crosshairs of a class action lawsuit.

And not just him.

Him, Amazon, and other production companies affiliated with the Beast Games competition series,

they're facing a lawsuit for poor working conditions.

And a lot of the allegations in the suit, they echo some of the claims that we've been hearing for a while now, both from the likes of creator

Rosanna, Pansino, and other reports that have been published over the last few months. Because what started

as a ton of eyes on and a lot of excitement for this competition series, it's going to have a whopping

$5 million prize, has no morphed into this class action that was filed by five unnamed contestants this week in Los Angeles.

But the seeing Variety being the first to report on it and publishing a fairly heavily redacted copy of it.

So right now, a lot of the details are still unknown.

But a key thing is that some of the claims include complaints about safety, not having enough food, chronic mistreatment, and sexual harassment.

With a lawsuit claiming that Mr. Beast, Amazon and the production companies, shamelessly exploited the labor of the people who served as contestants,

alleging that even though Mr. Beast had unconstrained resources, he failed to provide fair wages

or even bare minimum legal working conditions to the contestant. And saying, instead, he had them

sign unconscionable contracts with a legal term. And going further, to claim that the female contestants especially suffered as the work environment fostered a culture of misogyny, which production did nothing about.

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