JaidenAnimations, the YouTuber who won MrBeast’s $1 million content creator challenge, has since distanced herself from him despite winning the money. She does, however, still plan to use it.
MrBeast’s$1 million challengewas meant to give whichever YouTuber who won a million to use however they’d like, as long as the winner gave it away in a way that supported their subscribers.
And, while Jaiden still plans to use her winnings to help her subscribers, she made a statement regarding herconnection with MrBeastand made her frustration clear.
i love being an animation channel having to take 2 months to work on a video for the topic to become vastly soured within those 2 months 😀 so awesome!
“I love being an animation channel having to take 2 months to work on a video for the topic to become vastly soured within those 2 months, so awesome!” she said.
TheMrBeast controversydidn’t heat up until July 21, a month and a half after Jaiden started production on her video about the topic.
Jaiden revealed that she and the other five contestants agreed to split the money, with the winner getting the lion’s share of the million and the other four getting $100k each.
Amixem later decided to let Jaiden keep his share, meaning she got $700k while Nick DiGiovanni, Ludwig, and Alexandra Botez walked with $100k to give to their subs. It isn’t yet known what they plan to do with their share of the money.
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As for Jaiden’s $700k, she plans to send as many people as possible to art school so they can pursue their own careers in animation or other parts of the industry.
MrBeast hasyet to respond to the allegationsat the time of writing, though people who havespoken with him sinceclaim he plans to put out a response once all accusations against him are out in the wild.
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