Mr. Beast’s much-criticized blockbuster Amazon game show has evolved into a riveting demonstration of the ideological gulf between brutal Gen X pragmatism and fragile Gen Z idealism.

If you think Bryson DeChambeau’s YouTube golf is entertaining now, just wait. The Mr. Beast-ification of DeChambeau’s content is on the way. Don’t know that that last sentence means?

Beast Games episode 7 brought an emotional challenge to life on January 23, 2025. The episode was released on Amazon Prime Video and saw Mr. Beast give life to the trolley problem.

This might sound like an oddly academic way of describing a jackpot, but only if you were unfamiliar with Mr. Beast’s defining quality: his desire to test exactly what people are willing to do ...