Clubhouse User Accuses MrBeast Of Racism

YouTuber and philanthropist Jimmy Donaldson aka MrBeast has been accused of racism by a Clubhouse user. A newly released social networking app Clubhouse is an invitation-only audio-chat that was launched in 2020 by software developers Alpha Exploration Co. It allows the user to join huge group calls where they can listen to conversations and interviews on a wide variety of topics.

On February 15th, the CEO of luxury Instagram network Goodlife Media, Farokh Sarmad, accused MrBeast of racism after MrBeast threw him out of the conversation on Clubhouse as he claimed that it was because MrBeast couldn’t pronounce his name. Farokh Sarmad posted a series of tweets condemning MrBeast of racism. He wrote; “Mr. Beast just threw me out of his stage on Clubhouse after bringing me up saying: ‘I can’t spell your name so let me yote you out.” There was also an audio clip that MrBeast can be heard removing a person named Colin from the call before doing the same to Sarmad.

MrBeast said in the audio clip; “I’m going to yote you C0lin, thank you for coming up. Uh, I’m sorry. I’m really bad with names. I’m going to yote you as well”. Farokh Sarmad also claimed that MrBeast did not even allow him to get a word in and that he was shocked and disgusted. However, another content creator Rene Ritchie explained the situation, as he wrote that they were removing people to make more room for women on the panel to be more inclusive He tweeted out; “Hey, fellow Montrealer. That’s not what happened. We wanted to add more women to the stage to be more inclusive, so moved a bunch of people off to make room — including Hank Green. MrBeastYT was saying he’s bad at names — he got my name wrong multiple times. Modding is chaos.” Regardless, MrBeast has not yet responded to the situation and people remain divided in their opinions.