The YouTube Civil War Has Begun
Summary
TLDRThe YouTube community is embroiled in controversy as top creators Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI launch 'Lunch Le', a product accused of targeting kids with unhealthy food. Amid backlash, they defend their venture, igniting a 'YouTube Civil War'. Old-timer YouTuber Dan TDM criticizes the move, prompting heated responses from the Lunch Le team. The community debates the ethics of influencers selling to young audiences, with some defending past collaborations and others calling for better standards.
Takeaways
- π The YouTuber community is experiencing a significant conflict, with creators turning against each other.
- π₯ The feud began with creators calling each other out for views but has escalated into a more serious conflict.
- π The launch of 'Lunch Le' by Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI is a significant catalyst for the unrest within the community.
- π‘ People are unhappy with the marketing of Lunch Le to children, viewing it as unhealthy and exploitative.
- π The reputations of Mr Beast and Logan Paul are being scrutinized due to past controversies and allegations.
- π¨βπ©βπ§βπ¦ Concerns are raised about the health implications of Lunch Le for young audiences.
- π The community is fact-checking claims made by creators about the health benefits of Lunch Le.
- π£οΈ Dane 'Dan TDM' Middleton, a well-respected YouTuber, has publicly criticized the Lunch Le launch, sparking further debate.
- π¬ The responses from KSI, Mr Beast, and Logan Paul to criticism have been varied and have further fueled the conflict.
- π The backlash against Lunch Le has highlighted broader issues with the way YouTubers monetize their channels and influence their audiences.
Q & A
What is the main conflict mentioned in the script?
-The main conflict is a 'civil war' among YouTubers, triggered by Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI launching a product called 'Lunch Le', which has upset many in the community.
Why are people upset about Lunch Le?
-People are upset because they believe Lunch Le is being marketed to kids as a healthy alternative to Lunchables, despite concerns about its ingredients and the reputations of the creators involved.
What is the controversy surrounding Logan Paul's involvement with Lunch Le?
-Logan Paul's involvement is controversial due to his past allegations of being a scammer and the negative press surrounding his brand 'Prime'.
What are the allegations against Mr Beast mentioned in the script?
-The script mentions allegations of unsafe work conditions, a registered sex offender working on set, and a lawsuit for not paying minimum wages and overtime, as well as not preventing sexual harassment on the set of his game show.
What was Dan TDM's reaction to the Lunch Le launch?
-Dan TDM criticized the Lunch Le launch, questioning how it benefits their fans and accusing the creators of selling products to kids who trust them.
How did KSI respond to Dan TDM's criticism?
-KSI responded by accusing Dan TDM of hypocrisy, pointing out that Dan has also sold products and done sponsorships in the past.
What was Mr Beast's defense regarding Lunch Le?
-Mr Beast defended Lunch Le by stating that it is a healthier alternative to Lunchables, with less calories, less sugar, and more electrolytes, and that it aims to provide a better option for those who consume pre-made meals.
What was Logan Paul's stance on the backlash against Lunch Le?
-Logan Paul took an aggressive stance, arguing that they are providing a better product and that people are free to choose not to consume it.
Why is the community rallying behind Dan TDM?
-The community is rallying behind Dan TDM because he is seen as a trusted figure who speaks out against what he perceives as exploitation of young audiences by fellow YouTubers.
What is the significance of the 'class action lawsuit' waiver mentioned in the script?
-The waiver's significance lies in the fact that by purchasing Lunch Le products from their website, consumers are potentially giving up their right to join class action lawsuits against the company, which raises concerns about consumer rights.
What is the broader implication of the YouTubers' conflict as described in the script?
-The broader implication is a shift in the YouTube community from content creation to commercialization and the ethical concerns surrounding the influence of popular YouTubers on their young audiences.
Outlines
πΉ YouTuber Civil War Over Lunchables
The script discusses a conflict within the YouTube community, sparked by Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI launching a product called 'Lunchables'. Initially, creators were calling each other out for views, but it escalated to a 'civil war'. The community is divided over the ethics of marketing unhealthy products to young audiences. The video mentions controversies surrounding Mr Beast, including allegations of unsafe work conditions and lawsuits over his game show. The script also highlights public backlash against the Lunchables product, with fans accusing creators of exploiting their audience for profit.
π₯ Dan TDM's Critique Ignites Debate
Dan TDM, a well-respected YouTuber, publicly criticizes the Lunchables product, calling out creators for selling unhealthy food to children. His statement gains significant traction, leading to responses from KSI, Mr Beast, and Logan Paul. KSI accuses Dan of hypocrisy, pointing out his past collaborations and product promotions. Mr Beast defends Lunchables as a healthier alternative to traditional lunch snacks, while Logan Paul takes a more aggressive stance, arguing that creators have a right to build businesses from their content. The script suggests that the conflict has become a significant event within the YouTube community.
π The YouTube Community Reacts
The script describes the YouTube community's reaction to the Lunchables controversy. It mentions how the conflict has led to a 'civil war' among creators, with many taking sides. The video script also discusses the business practices of Mr Beast and Logan Paul, including their product launches and the potential legal issues with Lunchables. The community's response ranges from support for Dan TDM to criticism of the creators involved with Lunchables. The script ends with a call to action for viewers to engage with the video and a reflection on the temporary nature of such controversies.
Mindmap
Keywords
π‘YouTubers
π‘Civil War
π‘Content creators
π‘Lunchables
π‘Mr Beast
π‘Logan Paul
π‘KSI
π‘Dan TDM
π‘Community Notes
π‘Class action lawsuit
π‘Memes
Highlights
YouTubers are turning against each other, causing unrest within the community.
Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI launched a product called 'Lunchables', causing controversy.
People are unhappy with the marketing of the product to kids.
Dan TDM criticized the product, calling it 'selling crap to kids'.
KSI responded to Dan's criticism by accusing him of hypocrisy.
Mr Beast defended the product, claiming it's a healthier alternative to Lunchables.
Logan Paul took an aggressive stance, telling critics not to eat the product if they don't like it.
Community notes highlighted inaccuracies in the product's claims about health benefits.
There are concerns about lead content in the product.
Dan TDM's criticism sparked a larger discussion about the responsibilities of YouTubers with large audiences.
The YouTube community rallied behind Dan TDM, showing solidarity against the criticized YouTubers.
Past controversies involving Mr Beast and Logan Paul were brought up in the discussion.
The debate raised questions about the ethics of YouTubers promoting products to their young audiences.
The YouTube 'Civil War' metaphor was used to describe the conflict between creators.
Memes and jokes about the situation spread across the internet.
There are allegations that by purchasing Lunchables, consumers waive their right to class action lawsuits.
KSI's past promotion of a food subscription box to his young audience was highlighted as a double standard.
The YouTube community is divided, with some supporting the criticized creators and others against them.
Transcripts
it's the beginning of the end YouTubers
are turning against each other it's an
allout Civil War it started out we were
just calling each other out and exposing
each other for views but now it's become
even more it's just we're just literally
trying to eat each other and it's ready
to explode I can't wait what has
happened to cause all this unrest and
all this anger within the community on
YouTube to turn YouTubers and content
creators and fans against each other
well you probably already guessed it
Mr Beast Logan Paul and KSI launched a
Lunchable called lunch Le and people
aren't happy about it and so I thought
to myself what what's the what's the
problem it's just it's just YouTubers
doing what YouTubers do you know
YouTubers our whole business plan
basically is to try to sell you stuff it
might not be directly because if you
watch the videos you probably got served
ads you know or uh I I got a whole
company that literally just tries to get
brand deals to creators so they can say
like bye
this from ex company and they and they
pay him money or Mr Beast uh has uh his
his feasable like the chocolate and
Logan Paul's got Prime like what this
this seems pretty par for the course
really but then you start reading like
the replies and why people are so mad
about it and and the reason after I
thought about more I I I do I do
understand it's it's kind of like the
whole thing with prime uh like over the
previous years being like yes uh healthy
you know electrolytes and all that and
even South Park made an episode about it
and uh and Logan Paul's allegations of
being a scammer you know but then prom
is still successful but it's got a lot
of bad like press just Logan Paul does
uh then KSI is there but you know
everybody everybody seems all right with
KSI and Mr Beast having all of his
things going on right now like uh like
people have been trying to get him for
what happened with uh uh the guy who
worked with Chris and like the alleged
dude that that works with them on set
that was a registered sex offender which
I don't know I never know what came of
that I never heard anything else about
that um uh like Rosanna she went on she
went on NBC to talk about like Mr Beast
unsafe work conditions and even to add
more to it Mr Beast also has uh him and
Amazon have a I think they're getting
they're getting sued they're getting
sued by contestants of their upcoming
Beast game show because they failed to
pay minimum wages and over time failed
to prevent sexual harassment
participants weren't provided uh
uninterrupted meal breaks and rest
breaks uh several contestants ended up
hospitalized yeah so
there's a lot of thing like all of
that's built up and and on top of that
feasable or not febles um lunch Le is
being that they're saying that it's
healthy it's like a healthy alternative
to Lunchables and obviously these guys
all have very young audiences because
that's you you do whenever you're like
the biggest people on the platform your
primary audience is younger so people
don't like that they marketing these
things to kids it's like yeah eat this
it's great yeah and the kids like oh my
God I love you yes I so they're they're
mad about
it which all seems reasonable you know
it probably have some backlash and
they'll keep on going and then a year
from now no one will care and they'll be
a billion dollar company and know
huzzah but people started speaking up
and that's where it starts getting juicy
D people started speaking up and and
some claims started getting getting
Community noted okay like uh let's see
like Logan Paul tweeted about you know
lunch Le versus Lunchables and then here
he gives like the C the versus calories
and all that stuff uh you know they're
counting the electrolytes but it's
almost like it's being replaced to
sodium in the community notes Here is
the 400 milligrams of electrolytes in
the chart appears incorrect the 12 ounz
of strawberry banana Prime of the fiesta
and of the fiesta nacho excuse me and
the 12 O ice pop prom of the turkey
stick stickums both have 500 milligrams
of potassium not 400 uh this is not even
include the other electrolytes so so
people are like what what what do you
mean what was going on here then there's
like a there's talk about lead within uh
within the food there's there's a video
here he's like we spend a lot of money
to put all meals to X-ray and metal
detection to ensure no foreign materials
are in lunch Le to which uh oill quoted
it it's like Loca Paul thinks 0 or
0.0000001
14175 grams of lead will show up on a
mail Detector by the way this would be
two times what's allowed legally
oh but but this this is where this where
the like aside from just all the things
you kind of expect right all that's
within expectation what's not
expected the real the what the thing
that really kicked it off Dane Dan
TDM old school YouTuber
Minecrafter very successful guy very
nice guy me and Felix have played games
with him and uh very pleasant and
everyone loves him he quoted the the
announcement they made and said what
happened to YouTubers man I can't not
say anything anymore this is selling
stuff for the sake of making money
simple how does benefit their fans this
is selling crap to kids who don't know
better than to trust the people who are
selling it to them do better to which
this got you know 36 you know 37 million
views at this time you know 500,000
retweets like it kind of took off it
kind of is your responsibility right
like it should be your responsibility as
as someone with a platform that being
you know what I'm saying and then and
then so when he said that all three of
the faces of lunch Ley had responses and
all three were very very
different okay KSI responded with looks
like crap to me and linked pictures of
like Dan's toys and things he sells uh
like you and things like that uh to be
like you're also selling junk that you
know you're doing the same thing what a
hypocrite right and it got community
noted and said not only has KSI worked
with them before the CEO of you's Austin
long got his start by managing the sidan
and was an executive producer on their
YouTube Red show and being like yeah
you're that that that one goes both ways
that's really not a thing and you know
he went that way okay and then um Mr
Beast Mr Beast went the way of trying to
tell like what good of a product it is
lunchable sells hundreds of millions of
units and countless people eat it our
goal is to give people a a better for
you alternative to it our turkey meal
for example is 80% less calories 60%
less sugar more electrolytes we use real
cheese uh they they use cheese product
cuz they can't call it cheese which the
the truth of that I think it's got to be
like 51% cheese like like to actually be
called cheese but anyway uh higher
quality meat Etc obviously eating fresh
chicken and broccoli is healthier but if
someone's going to eat pre-made meal
with this which millions of people do
through launchables then I think giving
them a higher quality version at roughly
the same price is a net good in my
opinion and while we uh we launched
lunch Le also we get economies of scale
it can get things cheaper we'll only be
improving the product more and more he's
like very PR like we're going to go in
there it's it's it's it's good it's
better it's a better it's just an
alternative then Logan Paul went the um
a little more aggressive right uh okay
he's like I'll tell you what happened to
YouTubers we spent our lives creating
content building Our Brands now we want
to build a business you don't see any
you don't say anything when lb's faces
bans for allegedly containing lead but
then we create a better version you're
upset then don't eat it which this got
community noted and said missleading
saying that Lunchable faces bands for
allegedly containing lead that they
created a better version it implies
lunchable doesn't contain lead the ice
pop Prime hydration found found in the
turkey stack Stacks also has report uh
reports of lead contaminants from the
ERC oh my which he's replied to it's
like Consumer Reports ores us dat to
remove Lunchables from you know and then
you know kind of goes in the offensive
like nuh-uh you know and so this was
this is this was the event Dane this was
like our Ground Zero event
now people feel like Dan has been
attacked and you don't attack Dan DTM
you don't attack dant TDM okay in front
of everyone you don't do that got right
here Jack Septic like you mess with Dan
TM you mess with YouTube you mess with
one of us you mess with all of us here
we
go and everyone's just like yeah don't
mess with them Robert Ross here if you
told me 10 years ago that the YouTuber
silver war was going to be started over
what kids are eating For Recess would
have believed it immediately and people
are like you were correct about Mr Beast
the whole time you're a hero because
there was an interview kind of or a
video jacket did a while back while he's
doing like a the law detector test and
they asked him like what do you thought
Mr Beast or whatever he said basically
said that Mr Beast wasn't good for
YouTube because of the content that he
creates not that the content's bad but
like the bar he setting kind of thing
what you kind of that stuff is where he
going like it's it's uh yeah it's taking
it away from like people sitting in
their their rooms making content and
going more further into production and
and it's it's a valid take so yeah
people are going back and like oh yeah
and then this also goes into the whole
lots of people have been jumping on Mr
BEAST's case like even I was going
through the the earlier stuff like all
the allegations and stuff about Mr Beast
and I was like ah the dude literally
doesn't have to say anything he can just
just ignore it and keep going nothing
will ever happen right right but then
you launch something with uh he just
something something new targeting kids
you know and it's got Logan Paul
involved and everyone's big mad then you
then you then you clap back at
Dan all right K officially what side are
we taking there's only one side to take
we stand with Dan all right we stand we
stand with Dan Dan the man I've never
actually spoken to any other guys Mr
Beast follows me and I I sent him a
message one time tell him that his email
was hacked and whoever answered it said
thanks but uh other than that you know
but Dan you know talk Dan's good he's a
dad fellow
father don't mess with him don't do it
then of course the internet's taken and
making memes about it you got people
people comparing it you got launchables
on the left launch on the right one has
Pizza Capri Sun actual candy the other
one has pizza Prime crap Feast tables
crap ooh fe uh it's like I think I think
it's his chocolate he's got like a
chocolate bar he he's been like trying
to get in like production of stuff so
like I think it started out with him
doing like the like the ghost kitchen
stuff on like like Uber Eats and things
you could get like Beast burgers and
stuff and then uh launched like you know
the candy bars which like doing this is
it's it is normal like launching things
when you have you have people behind you
like I even have ideas of things that I
would like to launch and leverage my
popularity to make the business
successful but um it kind of comes into
you know just previous practices and
like is it is what people say yeah
people are looking at it as they should
suspiciously you know I always kind of
even thought like the whole Burger thing
was weird like I can get a Mr Beast
burger from my local Italian place and
that was really weird to me like
apparently that caused some issues too
like some kitchens were like being shady
and stuff but his name was on it yeah
got that got that got weird I don't I
was just looking here I don't know if
this is true but this guy uh Jeff here
says looks like Mr Beast is trying to
nip the class action lawsuit problem in
the bud with lunch Ley if you buy any
products from their website you wave a
lot of Rights apparently Source their
policies and terms they took a picture
of this
section 21 is this no way you shall not
join any action with claims of any other
person or entity or bring join to
participate in class actions against
lunch Le so if you buy the product on
the website you're waving your right to
class action lawsuits
goodness no way is that really on there
hang on yeah yeah there it is right
there it's on the website oh my goodness
wow I wonder if that's like a normal
like I wonder if this isn't a lot of
stuff when you go and agree to it and
you don't even know what's in there huh
if you got any questions you can email
them
apparently jeez KSI also had another
reply it says he was talking about food
he was sponsored and promoted and made a
whole video on Munch pack a monthly
subbox full of food and Candy to his
Minecraft audience full of kids now what
which has also been Community noted and
it's like the reference videoos over 9
years old on Dan DTM second or TDM I
keep saying DTM TDM's second Channel
more TDM uh this was a one-off sponsor
ship where Dan was given a free food
package from Munch pack to try unique
foods from around the world this is
clearly different from ksi's partnership
with lunch
Ley and it's like he keeps going on no
you and everyone's like dude it's it's
completely different situation when you
have like a steak in the
company my God oh my God children's fit
no
oh this the realid dangers of a yeah
Dane oh my
God hilarious and then this one goes
back to like Logan Paul's post about
like uh them scanning for foreign
objects and he's like I was not lying
they blasted radiation into lunch Ley oh
there's going in oh goodness
gracious we're YouTube and you're dead
ah some of the choices of people they
have in this are not okay anyways just
okay anyway yeah the YouTube Civil War
is beginning we're all turning against
each other apparently this will all be
over soon and no one will care but yeah
until then please leave a like on the
video leave a comment do all that cool
stuff today's your birthday happy
birthday say t my friends I love you
we'll see you next time bye-bye I love
how you looked at that picture and then
change teams again
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