YouTuber MrBeast Accused of Hiring Registered Sex Offender

Rich Storry/Getty ImagesIt’s a bad time to be MrBeast. A few weeks ago, YouTube’s highest paid content creator, real name Jimmy Donaldson, was caught up in scandal after one of his longtime collaborators, Ava Kris Tyson, was accused of sending explicit messages to a 13-year-old girl when she was 20. Now, a former employee’s claimed MrBeast “knowingly” hired a registered sex offender to work on his $54-million-a-year channel. The person wore a mask during videos to conceal their identity and was apparently called “Delaware” by staff, according to the New York Post.As the revelations circulated online, another former employee at the channel, known as Jake the Viking, came forward to identify Delaware as his brother-in-law. He added that Delaware was placed on the sex offender’s register in 2010, and claims that the charges against him are due to be dropped a little later this year after he accepted a plea deal with his accuser.Read more at The Daily Beast.