Overview

Rosanna Pansino vs. MrBeast Ivanka Trump Photo Controversy refers to accusations levied against MrBeast by fellow YouTuber Rosanna Pansino in late October 2024 in which she accuses the YouTuber of being responsible for a Telegram chat between his employees where his coworkers exchanged photos of an underage Ivanka Trump. Pansino claimed to have passed on the information she acquired to the FBI and made a YouTube video along with DogPack404 also accusing MrBeast of discussing Higehiro, an anime about a high school girl pursuing an older man, with his friend and former employee Ava Kris Tyson.

Background

On October 26th, 2024, YouTuber^[1] Rosanna Pansino and DogPack404 posted a video to Pansino's channel titled, "MrBeast KNEW All Along… (1,000+ Leaked Messages)." The 22-minute video showed Pansino claiming to have obtained Telegram chat logs between MrBeast employees. She also claimed that the employees exchanged photos of an underage Ivanka Trump and that MrBeast recommended the anime Higehiro to Ava Kris Tyson, a show depicting a romance between an adult man and a high school girl.

The description of the video reads, "These MrBeast Company WORK chat logs have been confirmed as legitimate by multiple former MrBeast employees that were IN the chats. I am sorting through them as quickly as I can. To me, this is proof that Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast) knew about Ava Kris Tyson's behavior for several years."

The discussions about the Telegram chat sharing images of an allegedly underage Ivanka Trump begins roughly at the five-minute timestamp in the video, which gathered over 800,000 views in three days.

On October 27th, Pansino posted to her Twitter / X^[2] account, "I have reported what I found and my concerns to the authorities @FBI. Hopefully they will look into these MrBeast Telegram Company Chats Logs and other concerns." The tweet gathered over 130,000 likes in two days.

Pansino also posted a recording of the group chats in question on October 27th, 2024, gathering over 11,000 likes in two days.

Working to sort through the MrBeast Company Chat Logs. Here is part 1 with a few redactions (Discord handles).These are from a Telegram channel that MrBeast (John Smith in these chats) used to communicate with Kris Ava Tyson and other employees.Trigger warning as they discuss… pic.twitter.com/HeKVjpWv4G

— Rosanna Pansino (@RosannaPansino) October 27, 2024

Developments

On October 28th, 2024, DogPack^[4] made a post responding to people criticizing him and Rosanna for seemingly viewing and reacting to material they believed was CP or CSAM.

Also on October 28th, DogPack404 posted an "update" to his Twitter / X^[3] account showing the supposed magazine spread the photos of Ivanka Trump had been sourced from. The images were reportedly taken when Ivanka Trump was 18 years old, and the "explicit" nature of the photos stems from her wearing a sheer mesh top.

Online Reactions

Many internet users reacted to Rosanna Pansino and DogPack404's serious allegations against MrBeast as they garnered virality in late October 2024, with some criticizing them for posting a video without correctly researching their claims.

For instance, X^[5] user and YouTuber Wavywebsurf (@wavywebsurf) quoted DogPack404's tweet on October 28th, writing, "dude you are going to get sued," presumably for defamation. The post gathered over 4,000 likes in a day.

Other internet users criticized Pansino and DogPack for dramatizing what they perceived as a non-issue, with the X account DramaAlert^[6] making a post questioning if the two could face legal action for making a false report to the FBI on October 28th, 2024.

Several prominent Reddit threads discussing the controversy emerged on the platform in late October 2024, including the subreddits /r/youtubedrama,^[7] /r/Fauxmoi^[8] and /r/playboicarti,^[9] each of which accumulated thousands of upvotes and comments each within two days.

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