MrBeast's Week of Chaos: Burger Lawsuit, Lab-Grown Meat and $12 Million Charity Soccer Match
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Jimmy Donaldson, the YouTube sensation known as MrBeast, has been at the center of high-stakes drama and futuristic flair over the past week. In a tense New York courtroom on Thursday, a judge urged him and Virtual Dining Concepts to settle their bitter MrBeast Burger lawsuit to dodge a messy trial and airing dirty laundry, according to Business Insider, expressing skepticism over claimed damages from bad reviews while letting both suits proceed amid accusations of breached contracts and reputation hits.
His blockbuster video $1 vs $1,000,000,000 Futuristic Tech, dropped January 24 and already topping 70 million views, took him on whirlwind tours including Upside Foods cultivated chicken facility in California where he tasted lab-grown poultry and couldnt tell it from the real thing, as FoodBev Media reports, plus a November shoot at University of Arizonas Biosphere 2 where he donned a Gravity spacesuit on the rooftop and explored rainforests as a blueprint for off-world living, per Arizona News.
On the business front, MrBeast launched a cheeky promotional blitz with OpenFortune distributing 2.5 million fortune cookies nationwide starting January 13 to hype Beast Games Season 2 Strong vs Smart on Amazon Prime, Fortune reveals, packing in 24,000 rare collectibles with his personally penned messages and QR codes for viral tracking a Willy Wonka twist on real-world ads amid digital fatigue.
Friday night in Doha, he stole the spotlight at the Match for Hope charity soccer clash, briefcase of cash in hand attempting to bribe the rival goalkeeper for a penalty goal during the star-studded Team Chunkz versus Team AboFlah showdown that raised 12 million for education in developing nations, Sportbible says, sparking viral fan frenzy with legends like Thierry Henry and Eden Hazard on pitch as his cheeky stunt nearly backfired into an open-net miss. No major social media mentions surfaced beyond these, but his moves signal bold pivots in food tech philanthropy and media empire-building.
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