mr beast responds to crypto allegations

I secretly interviewed Mr Beast after he refused to answer my questions in my investigation a few days ago now we have oompaville who Mr Beast decided to do the tell all interview with and I was able to ask a handful of follow-up questions I think it was two or three questions at the end of the video through oompaville I just wrote up a Google doc because I had a feeling that they weren't going to be properly addressed so we're going to go over those responses a bit out of order in the order that I think

is the most interesting actually because unfortunately because of how it was it was filmed and then the follow-up questions were asked they're at the very end of the video and I really uh feel like they actually matter a lot it's kind of a shame because I think a lot of the questions will not be seen by most of the most people because it's a two and a half hour interview probably most people only saw sort of the um very casual answering of the crypto allegations sort of more towards the middle of the story so we're

going to go through this step by step obviously I wish I had been able to ask these questions myself unfortunately that's just not how it worked out so um we're going to go through this there's a lot that I'm really not happy with I think they were the answers were not satisfying they were not good there's a few times where we get close to an admission and then we just kind of back off from it from Mr Beast perspective so we'll go over it I I'm not interested in 12 more responses this is this will

be kind of my final story on this honestly I wish I could have been able to do this in my one story about the Mr be stuff but of course he didn't answer my questions then he's now answered uh a few of them now and so I'd like to just go over it since we were mentioned explicitly um this is the first question I want to start with which is the most important one in my opinion which is uh the question of who controlled the wallet Mr Beast as we know has maintained that it was

a fund and as I showed in my investigation there's a lot of evidence for that but the story gets more complicated when you see a podcast on impulsive where Mr Beast talks about at least some of those buying and selling decisions seem to have been made by him on a podcast with Logan Paul uh about Crypt punks uh you talk about a call you had with Mr Gary uh where you claimed to have bought and or sold crypto punks uh but then later decided to roll the money into V friends um and this is all

like video obviously that I bought a bunch I bought quite a few I bought multiple ones I've already sold quite a few of them so then I'm rolled the money into vonts uh and this trading activity all happened within the wuang wallet which we talked about last night yes so it so if it was your decision you know if that if semantically if what you're talking about on the podcast if it was your decision your trading decision to buy and sell the punks or vriends even though you didn't press the buttons was it actually your

decision it still to me would mean that you had control of those trading decisions yeah these are good questions actually I'm glad we're doing this follow-up thing so we can also just put all this stuff out there so um yes I did say that on the podcast and I obviously did not press the buttons like I've been saying I I didn't pick what punks to buy or anything Gary ve like I said on that podcast called me and a bunch of other people said Crypt punks are the next big thing I thought it was pretty

crazy but you know the first thing I did right after that is just called the guy in charge of the fund uh who invested my money and it's other uh people's money as well and just said hey Gary ve seemed very passionate about these punks you should look into it if it makes sense by it and so um you know he did the research picked what punks to buy bottom that's kind of high level how it went um but you know if he was like oh this is a [ __ ] investment then he wouldn't

have bottom so all right I cannot tell you how weird this answer is in hindsight because you basically have to completely disbelieve what Jimmy says in 2021 to believe this story where he got this call from Gary ve and he calls Jason he goes uh if this fits within our trading strategy in the fund maybe buy some but you rewind a little bit Mr Beast is on Twitter saying I bought this Crypt Punk he's on the podcast saying I bought multiple Crypt punks that I bought a bunch he's on the podcast saying I sold I've

already sold quite a few of them I rolled the money into bef so then I'm rolled the money to V friend and then even more crazy he says he specifically bought certain crypto punks because he liked their attribute like the cigarette one he's like I like the cigarette Crypt Punk the cigarettes because I thought that was an interesting attribute but here he's saying oh I didn't even know which ones to buy I I don't know which punks to buy or which ones would we should buy if it's a good investment like real special yeah I

had I had some that like whatever 230x what's a what's a uh we we bought a lot with like the cigarettes cuz I thought those was an interesting attri well which is it I feel like if he's telling the truth now then he was just blatantly lying then and if he was telling the truth then he's blatantly lying now or just trying to distance himself from this I feel like I understand why because the more he was kind of directing Jason obviously the worst all of this stuff looks but I think it's impossible to get

away from the fact that Mr Beast in 2021 was clearly in some type of contact with this fund that was not normal this is not a normal I'm going to give my money to a financial adviser and I don't make any of the decisions he clearly was directing some of the strategy to say hey go go get Crypt punks and then to go move your money into vs because Gary ve says so for Gary ve to then give Mr Beast a gift to the fund like it's all very strange and I feel like the frustration

here is the fact that anytime there's a problem it's all the fund I did nothing I I had nothing to do with it Etc but when you actually look at these Investments these Investments were all talking about Jimmy like it wasn't about oh there's multiple stakeholders it's Jason Williams no no no it was all Mr Beast and that's the criticism that I think he's not um engaging with here so this will matter a lot in our next part which is about super uh one of the worst things that I think is sort of against him

where this tweet happens while his fund had been selling and continue to sell that's our follow-up question and you'll see some more of this oh it's not me it's all the fun uh the supercoin tweet for context on May 12th 2021 you Mr Beast tweeted in response to a uh it was a ILO trades tweet there's a gym sitting there on the market at an eye watering price set to explode during defi summer 2.0 and then you responded by saying super question mark with a crazy Emoji um so why did not why did you not

disclose that you had a vested interest in the coin that you were tweeting about super question mark um uh yeah we'll start there um well I didn't I replied to a tweet so I I did tweet it out and I think a lot of people wait you did tweet it out you rep I this is such a weird distinction you'll see multiple times he kind of goes like he'll engage with something that's not really the criticism the criticism is why did you just disclose you had tons of super and you'll see he bends over backwards

to not answer that question people you know that are just getting second hands of the story think I literally tweeted out go buy Super go buy Super um yeah you know the fund did hold some super and I just saw the that was the owner of super the guy who made the coin and I just went scrolling through Twitter just replied super to his tweet I did not tell people to buy Super wait no stop so first of all does not answer the question of like why didn't you disclose it such an obvious disclosure he

set up okay like first of all let's let's back up Jimmy set up the super pre-sale thing that is such a big deal in his whole thing about like oh I barely had anything to do with the fund the most profitable trading decision this fund ever made was set up explicitly by Mr Beast Jimmy Donaldson now he's saying like oh I you know oh it was just the fund that held that no no no you set that up you're the reason the fund held that okay then we have oh I was just responding to a

tweet well that what was that tweet that he was responding to he goes I didn't tell anyone to buy Super the tweet that he responded to was there's a gym on the market at eyew watering prices no no coin is mentioned so they're basically saying like there's this incredible play you could make on the market and Jimmy's response to the guy he got in the pre-sale with is super and he doesn't disclose one that he set up a pre-sale and he's like in before anyone else right millions of dollars he's in two that his fund

had been selling and continued to sell after that tweet like the most irresponsible even if you want to give him ultimate master benefit of the doubt incredibly irresponsible and there's no way that a single person did not see that and multiple people I'm sure see the biggest influencer in the world talking about this some great low cap coin eyew watering prices he's responding this and they don't see that as a Buy Signal from Mr Beast again of course he didn't explicitly say that and that's the kind of the fake criticism he's trying to engage with

is something that nobody Sayang which is that he said go bu super like you have to just be completely disconnected with the story to think anyone's saying that we all know what he said but the but he doesn't engage with this at all and it's just so frustrating to see this like this is his chance to kind of own it and say hey look this was shady I I shouldn't have done this I can even buy the fact that you know maybe Mr Beast had no idea his fund was selling right that's fine you can

say that but you can't say you can't Dodge the accusation like you should have disclosed it you can't Dodge the fact that you were involved like directly involved with the super prell so um we'll let him keep talking here but that is like undering this whole thing is you know this complete Dodge of the criticism when honestly you should just be honest and say yes it was shady it was wrong I shouldn't have done it or anything I just replied super and I know the next thing where people are going to go but this was

a plan coordinated thing it wasn't it's not like I'm on the phone with the people managing the crypto fund going hey I'm about to reply super to this tweet like again I've never said that we have proof of that we don't have proof either way we just have to take Mr Beast at his word that he wouldn't do something like that um I do think there are other ways to do pump and dumps like this if you really want to however that is not the problem the problem is you gotten a coin early and you're

putting out these publicly positive signals while your fund is selling whether you know it or not that's just like so deeply wrong and unethical so again is it uh an illegal scam no I personally don't think so I mean I I think we'd need more evidence for that but is it shady and should you take accountability for this like obviously Shady move yes and I don't feel like he is like I just was scrolling Twitter and I replied super and like I highly doubt anyone bought it I I literally this this drives me crazy the

fact he goes I just said super as if it's like without context as if he doesn't know what he's responding super to like that's so I don't know I that drives me crazy because they saw me reply super to a tweet I mean just to be honest um to what I didn't think too much of it obviously though in hindsight I mean I could see how people might think that is a weird look optically and so like I wouldn't do it but I mean it's it's not just so first of all we should give him

credit here he admits that it's a it's it's bad but he only admits that it's bad optically he's like yeah it's like if you look at it without context like yeah like if it's bad optically so I guess I wouldn't do it no it's just bad like you you should not be positively talking about coins that you have a financial stake in because you set up that Financial stake while you're selling while your fun is selling without disclosing it like it's the most obvious stuff uh this is this is influence ethics 101 we are not

in the like senior levels of influencer Ethics this is the most basic thing it is not just optically a problem it is actually a problem I mean I really don't think it's that malicious like if I just flat out tweeted I think Super is the next big thing go buy it super super super like I think this is a different conversation that's the kind of stuff actual people do you know what I mean and like actually stupid people do most people who are trying to like pump coins know that they can get in trouble by

going go do this explicitly bye bye bye instead most people go like eyeball Emoji like most people do like subtle stuff this idea that people are like the only way you can cross the line is by explicitly saying go do this right now sign in to chase.com and go to this thing and you know of course there's levels to this stuff but the idea that the only way it could be a problem is if you said explicitly go byebye bye-bye is just being willfully ignorant about how this stuff works in practice again I'm not even

saying that this was an explicit pump and D I don't think we have enough evidence for that but we do have evidence that this extremely Shady you are crossing some influencer ethics here and like as the guy who has such a clean image that's a children's channel it's not like you're some edgy guy you have this very well you know this was kind of his is kind I don't know what people think of Mr Beast now but it is kind of his brand he's going for and so I don't know I just would think that

he would see this very much more clearly and then that's what makes me think it's more of a Dodge than anything it's like he of all people should understand why you shouldn't be doing this scammer I yeah so it was is interesting too because coffee never said I was a scammer in his video yet you know there's that's true that's true I said it was shady I didn't not say it was a um he's a scammer so many comments on it just you know a lot of people just want to drive you know whatever people

who don't like me like you said in the video are not going to like me and they're you know going to run with it people who do like me are going to be like oh it was managed by fund then Jimmy had answers for everything which I mean no no he doesn't wait that's not what I said I said if you want to believe Mr Beast there are scapegoats at every turn um which I do believe is true you can just believe that you know Jason Williams was in charge of everything um and I think

that's probably somewhat like I think there's some truth to that but not everything that's the point is like he was in charge of some of the stuff some of the stuff Mr Beast set up some of the stuff Mr Beast was involved in and um another thing we don't have any Clarity on is like who else was in this fund I've tried to ask so many people including Jimmy obviously and I have not gotten any transparency about this the only names I've ever me uh heard mentioned in the context of this fund was Mr Beast

Jimmy um uh Jason Williams and then Alex Becker for the earn pre-sale specifically like not all the pre-sales just the earn pre-sale specifically I have not heard a single other name mentioned in regards to this fund period so I'm just putting that out there doesn't mean that's the only people from what I've seen it seems like mostly Mr BEAST's money mostly Mr BEAST's decisions in terms of if he de it wants to go into something it seems like that's what the fund does and it's not excuses I literally was just a fund I was not

the one buying or selling or anything you know what I mean uh I had other people managing it um right so that's the honest answer I just replied super and you know I guess if I could go back in time i' just not reply I mean I didn't think it was a big deal when I did it yeah but now I mean obviously with with because crypto has changed massively in the last couple years so I you could consider that a mistake at this point like that's definitely another what hi the butt like it's the

most layup thing hey in Oompa even gives him kind of the out which is that back in 2021 things were harder like which I don't personally agree with that part of it but that you know back in 21 that all you have to say is yes that's it that's all you have to say was it was a mistake yes it was a mistake instead it's yes but but but but but but but but but so I you could consider that a mistake at this point like that's definitely but another little context point I think a

lot of people are missing a lot of people who do this kind of stuff do it on low volume coins that like you know sell $100,000 a day so it actually dramatically pumps it and blah blah super it's like the hundredth big cryp biggest cryptocoin out there super is like a legit coin is a legit project that's massive like that tweet didn't move the needle for [ __ ] or anything all right so what I hate about this is he just does this thing like I'm not the worst person in the world like he just

keep keeps comparing himself to other people and it's like yeah we even make that distinction multiple times it's like this is not the same as some other things right we are just asking for basic disclosures basic ethics like nothing that crazy uh so I feel like when he Compares himself I'm just like yeah but you know it's like me getting pulled over for a speeding ticket and go going like yeah but your officer like some people go a 100 miles an hour in this school zone and it's like yeah it doesn't matter you're still speeding

that doesn't right we're not even I didn't even bring that into the conversation just answer the question instead of going like yes it was a mistake but but but but but but but but but all these other people are way worse than me but this and this and this and this but and I had nothing to do with it I just feel like just own up to it it's fine so we're going to now move on from this super thing to the other thing which is earn token I think there's a a big miss here

as well and then the final one uh which I this one's a lot more complicated uh and involves a lot of stuff so I I mean maybe you would want to would want to reconvene with with like receipts or evidence or or whatever but it's the crypto charity stuff team C's eity yeah so I mean yeah I mean that one it the athority gave us nfts to auction offer team C's only one sold after like uh whatever a day I believe and that was it um and then yeah like the fund sold like 27 Days

Later a little bit of Eternity this was the craziest part of the interview in my opinion uh it's such a layup answer yes I'm the charity guy I'm expected to be held to high standards anything that makes me look like I'm abusing a charity is bad so I feel really bad I shouldn't have done it no matter if the charity flopped it was a big problem instead he says oh we sold after the charity the one nft sold not true then he said we only sold a few few tokens also not true they sold $2

million and then on top of that here's where you can actually see the dates of all this stuff you can see the offer was made on November 2nd is that what he's referring to when he says you know oh we sold it but because that's not actually true the sale did not happen until December 23rd 2021 after the fund sold so this whole idea he's going to say multiple times where he's going to go oh we yeah we didn't sell anywhere near the charity time first of all not true second of all it it's just

literally false and nft sold after the fact so this whole defense of his is based on misinformation which is the idea that the offer the the uh the offer was made on November 2nd but the actual transfer and sale date wasn't made until December 23rd 2021 you can see the date here it says bid one for this charity thing and this is just such a basic thing that uh is just I I think incredibly it's just misinformation at this point which is ironic cuz that's what Mr Bast says he's you know so against but he

downplays this whole thing and and I just feel like there's no need for this even if he's telling the truth it doesn't matter because it's wrong anyways but the fact is that the bid actually wasn't won until after the fun did sell and again and I'm going to play it for you again because just the way he frames this is so unbelievable it wasn't a little bit of earn it was $2 million okay unless that's what we're saying is a little bit of money you know just I casually sold $2 million just a a a

few tokens but uh I'm G to let you guys listen to this again because I just found this unbelievable aity gave us nfts to auction offer team C's only one sold after like uh whatever a day I believe and that was it um and then yeah it looks like the fund sold like 27 Days Later a little bit of eternity a little bit that's just crazy that's crazy to say um again you know it's not even the like I even said in my video I don't think this was some premeditated thing it was a flop

of a charity so it would have been a disaster to do it that way anyways but the fact you just can't even take that little bit of criticism that you're the charity guy it looks like you're profiting during a charity and that's just bad like why do we have to downplay it so much uh I just bizarre honestly we'll listen to the rest of this and yeah I mean that's kind of the full story not again there's nothing nefarious there yeah it it sold $2 million of the earn token yes obviously it's like the most

obvious comeback uh yes the fun did uh 20 oh now there it is there's the fund hey the fund did you know whose name is on athority not the fund it's Mr Beast that's why the criticism is here it's Mr Beast the whole way it wasn't Nick Rose the CEO going hey guys this rocket fund is investing in us no no no it's Mr Beast Mr Beast is supporting this drop through his charity team C's that I cannot understand why we can't get to a basic like hey I'm taking the L on this one 27

days later yes after after before it that seems I mean it seems like a lot I don't know what the market cap was uh but um yeah I mean I I just for for this one I feel like this is a this is a valid criticism uh and this doesn't make you like an evil scammer or anything I don't believe just the way Oompa said that like hey man it's not it's just a criticism we're not it's not even making you a scammer you know just this basic can you take a little bit a little

bit of responsibility here and the the reaction is unreal it's even with a very charitable interpretation of his motivations while selling $2 million during a charity right there's not that many good ways to look at that even through the most charitable ironically lens Mr Beast does not like accept this it's crazy I feel like this is one where the criticism is valid it is a good example of philanthropy stuff that probably should have just been done differently but at the same time 2021 is like a a huge area of gray for influencers with with crypto

access and like it's just I don't know it's a [ __ ] it seems like a game that if you're if you're a big influencer in 2021 or 2020 and you got into crypto at some point you probably uh made some kind of mistake at some point oh my gosh the softest like setup ever easiest way to say yes you just go hey man we're I'm not even calling you a scammer you know I get it but it does seem valid you sold $2 million right uh but 2021 was a crazy time different time whatever

watch how Mr Beast responds to the to just the lightest push back you know the most basic hey just accept a little bit of criticism um but as the charity guy if your fund is privately making like millions of dollars uh during a charity drop that your name is attached to uh like even if it so again that that uh I would say is not fully correct so the charity he can't even take the little bit of criticism he's like no no no not correct let's hear out drop happened uh one sold the other ones

weren't selling no one cared so there was no selling of nfts to raise money for charity anywhere near where the fund was selling before or after yes it was it was after it's sold at that's just not correct that's just not true uh people could technically still have bought those nfts but no one did because it just basically no one cared um so I just don't honestly this is so annoying the way he does this he goes like Oh the charity was a flop so it doesn't matter and then you criticize him about super which

was not a flop and he goes well yeah it's successful what's the problem what's the problem it's so successful so isn't that good actually if it's a flop it doesn't matter and it's not bad if it's good then actually maybe I was doing the right thing by by talking about it I it's crazy both ways no no valid criticism here don't feel like that's a a fair criticism like they gave Sor I'm sorry I'm pausing so much but it's like so unhinged to say after the lightest push back hey maybe this is a bit bad

not even saying you're a scammer 2021 is a different time oh that's not fair criticism no no no not fair criticism yes it is yes it is sorry to say yes it is it was bad you should feel bad you don't feel bad which is a problem I I I think it's actually a huge problem this is crazy Mr Beast is living in a bubble where he thinks and like I don't know can you not just take basic accountability here nobody's even asking no one's trying to lock you up here everyone's just asking for basic

hey this was your responsible I shouldn't have done it just take the criticism don't feel like that's a a fair criticism like they gave team C's some nfts to raise money one sold no one cared and then it just basically died and then uh just under a month later yeah looks like the fund sold some tokens completely unrelated uh to all this so how do we know it's not it's not like this where's a a charity drop that was selling hundreds of nfts a day and in the middle of all of it they they sold

some earn tokens it's like one nft sold raised money the the charity you know sell just basically died it's not going no one's buying it no one ever buying it anymore and almost a month later it's sold so I mean if anything again timeline is so important here the bid was not accept the bid was not um given sold and the transfer didn't happen until after the sales the charity was ongoing and during that is when the fund sold so this whole like Dodge here is inaccurate it's not going no one's buying it no one

ever buying it anymore and almost a month later it's sold so I mean if anything it looks like the people in the fun were being cognizant of it and P selling and waited till long after it ended to do it you know what they what is he talking about I look I'm sorry I I feel like I'm going insane listening to this oh it looks like my fun was actually responsible and waited till after the charity ended it hadn't ended they didn't wait what are you talking about and it's not the fund your name is

on the website oh I gotta dude I got to calm down this is actually crazy um I so badly wish I had been been here to to say something about this is mind-blowing I mean it's mind-blowing and I appreciate Oompa kind of doing these follow-ups to get these answers because earlier earlier during the podcast he kind of just doesn't really say any of this stuff and and here's where we're getting some actual answers as unhinged as I believe they are you know what I mean um so I don't I actually disagree I don't think anything

nefarious was done there to be honest okay just just to be clear though you keep saying a couple coins or like a you're you're downplaying it it's $2 million of earn tokens that's quite a bit that's like a lot of money of course that I mean and obviously not all of it is mine it's the fun look look even as he's agreeing with the criticism he still downplays it he goes he goes hey it's $2 million it's not a few funds and then Mr Beast goes of course well if you agree then why did you

say a few coins he goes of course but it's not all my money it's the funds he cannot this is just oh man um I don't know we'll listen to that again that's just crazy that's like a lot of money course that I mean and obviously not all of it is mine is the fund but it was also known that uh my fund was invested in it and I was a part of the fund so it's also not like it was hidden that we were uh invested in earn like that again Mr Beast was disclosed

it was not the fund it was Mr Beast Mr Beast was in the aity thing Mr Beast set up the pre-sell for Super Mr Beast was saying that oh I like the cigarette crypto punks whatever I feel like there's no engagement with the actual real substance here um so yeah I I I just found this interview at least from the crypto side because that's really what I know about uh very disappointing I feel like besides kind of admitting a little bit that the uh super tweet was like optically bad there's very little in the way

of real coming to grips with this is bad and it was bad um I feel like he just refuses to take even the most charitable criticisms this isn't some unhinged wild like you need to go to jail for the whatever it's hey can you just admit selling while you've got this charity going on that your name is attached to is bad when you're the charity guy sorry I don't feel like that's a fair criticism so yeah that's basically all I wanted to talk about uh Mr Beast does mention in the interview that he asked me

in the past to audit his it uh I decline to do so because I'm not a forensic accountant and I don't give stamp stamps of approval that's not really what I do I'm an investigator into problems I'm not an investigator into you know good job you you you did this correctly um for the record I like a lot of the charity stuff Mr Beast does it's not any kind of like problem I don't have any problem with that I've made very clear what my problems are and I feel like this interview wasn't n very satisfying

for um for those problems except for the fact that we got some answers from Mr Beast I'm glad we got those but as far as the substance of them I personally thought it was uh pretty disappointing so yeah that's basically it and uh thanks for watching goodbye