

MrBeast is a very famous individual who keeps on doing endless stuff to entertain his followers and the viewers who watch him on YouTube. Simply put, the social media celebrity is probably limitless when it comes to gaining unmatched popularity.
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However, with an insane amount of fame, also arrive certain unwanted situations. That’s pretty much the case with MrBeast as well, as he recently revealed how his growing popularity on YouTube sometimes ends up making people go for misleading offers. In simple words, he mentioned the other side of YouTube: scam ads.
MrBeast discusses about the reality of scam ads on YouTube with Elon Musk
YouTube is an interesting platform that grants a fabulous opportunity to the anyone who wants to achieve a massive following by creating entertaining and engaging content. However, the streaming website has also become a place of thriving fraudulent activities in the past few years. The most common of them all are scam ads that keep popping up on the most trending videos.

The scam ads also look like ordinary ads. There are many instances where such ads lure the viewers in clicking on them. Eventually, they end up losing a large amount of money by falling prey to these scam ads.
Recently, Tesla co-founder Elon Musk took a jab at YouTube for this exact situation. He posted a tweet that showed how YouTube lacks any strict rule in bringing effective solution to the ever growing problem of scam ads.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 7, 2022
As this tweet began to gain traction, MrBeast also shared his own experience with the annoying and dangerous situation of scam ads. In his reply to Elon Musk, Jimmy agreed with the former on the fact that YouTube seriously lacks any strong way of preventing misleading ads.
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He revealed that thousands of people have been scammed already by the fake ads. They pose as MrBeast and try to give away money to the people who, believing it to be legit, fall for such frauds.
I’ve gotten fake ads of me giving away money at least a thousand times and feel bad for the hundreds of thousands of people that have been scammed :/
I’ve been screaming at them for forever to figure this out pic.twitter.com/sB1AAuquuK
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) June 7, 2022
MrBeast wrote that he feels bad for those affected by scam ads. This is actually a serious situation and YouTube must taken an action to eradicate it completely in the near future.
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MrBeast’s 100 million record
MrBeast is currently on the verge of hitting 100 million subscribers. He’s taken several giant leaps in the past few months to make his objective less time taking as he’s very close to the target now.
So far, PewDiePie is the only individual YouTuber to have crossed the barrier of 100 million on the streaming platform.
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What are your predictions for Jimmy’s channel? Do you think he will complete his objective before the end of 2022? Let us know in the comments.
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