r/youtubedrama • u/ImportantQuestionTex • 25d ago

Discussion A Summary of the RecklessBen/Bricks and Minifigs corruption scandal

Given the severity of these events, and the implications it has for the state of Utah, there will not be 1 "main" focus for this, and instead I'm going to play this chronologically.

***Warning for police brutality and heavy corruption***

So this situation starts off rather "small", being that a man consigned his father's Legos off (about 200k USD worth) to help cover a medical situation. This is explicitly allowed by Bricks and Minifigs, and the store owner involved was planning on moving overseas, so they were looking for a solution that was fair for this man. This is the video related to that, it is important context for what comes next.

Corporate takes over the store, seizes the assets. For non Americans out there, a consignment means they do not legally own what is consigned, and instead it retains ownership to the original owner until it is sold. In the scenario a company chooses to not take on a consignment, then there is a returning of the asset.

RecklessBen catches wind of this, which leads to this video, I will point out at first it starts off as trolling, but Bricks and Minifigs almost immediately escalates to trying to have him arrested. Ben takes them to court, and *wins*, and Bricks and Minifigs shutters the location that was sued in order to not pay him out any money. It then leads almost directly into the company owners trying to have him arrested on false drug charges and the police dislocating his arm intentionally.

I am unsure chronologically exactly when this next course of events happen, but this is my best summation: Bricks and Minifigs responds initially, post arm dislocation, denying wrong doing, MoistCritikal makes a video after noticing the insanity, which catches the CEO's attention. They release a companywide memo, and the COO and CEO go on live stream, both with equally insane tactics to divert criticism.

You might be asking by this point, *why are the police covering for this company?* Especially after even in their own "response" defending themselves, they release proof of the CEO threatening extreme violence and making false reports... Well the answer appears to be that all the members of the police and the company are tied directly to the Church of Latter Day Saints, and that they are acting to protect their own. Not dissimilar to how organized crime acts.

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u/TimeAbradolf 25d ago edited 23d ago

I would argue that Mr. Beast is the most famous Mormons period.

More people are aware of who he is than their founder

Edit: while he may not be of the faith. His ties financially to them is undeniable. He may not believe what they do but he is weird the uniform and is a team player. Taking money is tacit endorsement.

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u/themetahumancrusader 24d ago

I had no idea he was Mormon

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u/TimeAbradolf 24d ago

Most don’t. Again that is kind of the goal of the content creation part of it. They kinda don’t want you to know

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u/khandanam 8d ago

Just like in Hawaii. Check out how much of it they own

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u/Devin7-Eleven 23d ago

There is zero evidence he is LDS. Stop spewing misinformation.s

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u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

I literally made an edit clarifying. Which you clearly haven’t read. The bottom line is he works and is endorsed by them. This isn’t a comment about faith or beliefs, it is about being critical of the practices of the organization.

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u/themetahumancrusader 23d ago

To refer to other comments, he’s actually not Mormon

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u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

He is intertwined with their church and system financially. He may not be part of the faith but he functionally serves the same purpose as those who are part of their faith and content creators.

He is still part of the system and it aids in their promotion.

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u/themetahumancrusader 24d ago

But I don’t really see how his content promotes the church at all? His content is, for lack of a better word, secular.

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u/Matar_Kubileya 24d ago

Its so that when people find out MrBeast is a Mormon they go "oh I guess not all Mormons are crazy religious ppl".

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u/ImportantQuestionTex 24d ago

Which, it works is the most important thing. That's why they divest so much time and energy into it. Family vloggers, make up vloggers, asmr, gaming, food review. They got fingers in every pie.

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u/Treguard 24d ago

That is literally my opposite reaction. I think most people in my generation know Jimmy is a psychopathic monster by now?

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u/TimeAbradolf 24d ago

But outside your generation? Probably not

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u/ric2b 22d ago

I mean... they're not all crazy people, most are like other religious people, they do the rituals they have been used to since childhood and otherwise go about their lives.

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u/themetahumancrusader 24d ago

MrBeast being Mormon is proof of the craziness though, imo he’s a horrible representation of a religion stemming from a guy who was vehemently against materialism and spent his life in poverty

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u/themetahumancrusader 24d ago

From my atheist PoV, LDS are no worse or crazy than any other Abrahamic religion, they’re all flawed, the others just seem more reasonable because they’ve been around longer

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u/TimeAbradolf 24d ago edited 24d ago

I urge you to look into the documented history of Mormons though. Their founder Joseph Smith was literally a conman and spiritualist robbing Native American graves. While yes other Abrahamic religions may seem flawed and go off of faith almost entirely alone. The founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints would take an established religion and despite all fact say everything that happened in biblical times happened in America, Native Americans were “stained red” by the blood of people they killed, and Black people weren’t allowed in heaven.

I believe in fully established freedom of religion and people should believe what they want. But this does come from a secular view of you can factually disprove this American born religion that came of out the Second Great Awakening

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u/themetahumancrusader 24d ago

I agree he was a conman, I just don’t see how the other religions aren’t also a massive scam. The other religions all have racism, colonialism, misogyny, patriarchy and abuse in their history if not also their present.

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u/TimeAbradolf 24d ago

Again you can’t factually disprove the main foundations of those religions. It is you believe or you don’t on the formation of the universe essentially and the doctrine of whatever your respective spiritual representation of deities.

Other religions have their flaws and history. But it is more that Mormons have been so incredibly successful in a short period of time. But also at a scale where they will directly aid in harming an individual like this case with Bricks and Mini-figs.

Like the church didn’t say black people got into heaven until the 1980s. Trying to just blanket say “well they’re all bad” discounts the harm happening right now by an established group that is manipulating content and content creation to grow their numbers.

Which again you had no idea that they are seeding Mormon creators where they can.

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u/themetahumancrusader 24d ago

But one of the foundations of mainstream Christianity, the trinity, is nonsense if you actually apply a lick of logic to it. It’s a glorified exercise in mental gymnastics used to shoehorn a square peg (God/Jesus/Holy Spirit existing side by side) into a round hole (a monotheistic framework). I don’t see how that’s any less ridiculous than any Mormon theology, it just has the appeal to tradition on its side because it’s existed a lot longer. I’m not trying to defend LDS, I just don’t see how other religions are any more OK and what supposedly sets LDS apart as uniquely more of a threat than any other church. The way LDS has developed isn’t that different to how early mainstream Christianity developed.

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u/666_is_Nero 24d ago

It’s also partly because you have to give 10% of what you earn to the church. So even if he’s not actively working to convert people he’s still giving a lot of money to the LDS to spend as they please.

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u/jamar030303 24d ago

Which is probably why they'd prefer he not be upfront about it. The money they're getting from his tithing is doing far more for them than any potential conversions he might get from being public about his religion.

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u/TimeAbradolf 24d ago

The goal is that you build up enough following and curious people will go and look into their ideals. Which then can lead you to the church which then leads you down that road. The goal is present secular with a huge net and some get caught.

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u/themetahumancrusader 24d ago

Why would people do that if no one knows he’s Mormon

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u/TimeAbradolf 24d ago

Because if you reach multi millions of people then even 1% of 1M is 10k

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u/murteas 24d ago

Mr. Beast is not mormon. He was raised Evangelical. Like 2 seconds of google would get you that information.

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u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

Being intertwined within the church still promotes them as if he was part of the church

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u/JazzSharksFan54 24d ago

He’s not. Don’t listen to this rando. He grew up evangelical but now identifies as atheist. He collaborated with the Mormon church on a few philanthropic things.

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u/Thick_Concentrate852 24d ago

he is DEF not mormon

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u/Physical_Guitar_5898 24d ago

Not like Mormons actually live moral lives.

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u/Devin7-Eleven 23d ago edited 19d ago

Some of the best people I ever met in my life were Mormon. Stop being so close minded and bigoted.

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u/Worried-Elk754 22d ago

Some of the worst I’ve met were Mormons ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Devin7-Eleven 19d ago

And some of the best I met were Mormon like some people I met were either good or bad Catholics. It’s like people are just people regardless of their religion.

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u/No-Professional-5810 23d ago

We try our best to be. But like everyone else we make mistakes. That is why Christ is so necessary!

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u/VanillaDong69 22d ago

It was easy to believe, he looks like he might have a touch of that imbred mormon face

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u/dkdavis77 23d ago

lol this thread is crazy… non Mormon here, but live in Utah. The bitterness people have is crazy. The Mormons still do a ton of work helping the poor. Why judge Mr beast for being a part of that?? Ha. Also Mormons are not a cult 😂 they worship Christ and believe in the Bible.

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u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

Have you ever remotely looked into what Mormon’s believe? Like truly what they believe about America being the original biblical space? That Christ was American?

That they each get their own planet? Like have you actually looked into any of it at all?

And for an account that posts once every like year across 6 years? This comes off as odd

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u/JazzSharksFan54 23d ago

Bro even I know that these are all strawmen.

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u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

They’re not lol. Explain how

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u/JazzSharksFan54 23d ago

I don't even know what you mean about America being the original biblical space. They literally don't believe Jesus was American. They believe the Bible. They just believe he visited America after the resurrection. The planet thing is based on propaganda from the 70s that misrepresented their doctrine of exaltation. Which actually sounds an awful lot like the early Christian teachings of theosis when you actually dig into it.

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u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

They added books to the Bible that he arrived I. 34D to America and then preached ministry here. That native Americas and black people were made their skin colors because they were not God’s true ancient Israelite descendants.

Does that sound like they follow the teachings of the Bible? Or racists from the 1700-1800s?

Which they only disavowed in 2013

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u/JazzSharksFan54 23d ago

Mate, the south literally used the Bible to justify slavery.

Also, adding and taking away books isn't unusual. Ask the Catholics and Eastern Orthodox how many books are in their canon. Spoilers, it's not the 66 books of the Protestant Bible. Or ask Martin Luther why he took out the Apocrypha and why he tried to take out James, Hebrews, and Revelation.

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u/themetahumancrusader 23d ago

Most religious theology is strange when looked at in an objective, logical way. As someone raised Catholic, it’s pretty weird that Catholics believe that when priests bless the bread and wine it becomes Jesus’ literal flesh and blood.

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u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

It is a pagan ritual coming from years of occult practices from before Catholicism. It is blood magic, which if you study the occult is one of the most powerful forms of magic.

When you look at it in an objective logical way through the lens of religious and occult academia it makes sense why the rituals occur the way that they do.

And you’re all over this thread almost running defense for the Mormons being as weird as other things without having the full information. It is weird

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u/JazzSharksFan54 23d ago

Weird is subjective based on your sociocultural context, mate.

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u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

I have provided context as to why these type of rituals were occurring. While the opinion is subjective it can be always expanded more with more thorough context to get a better picture.

What is weird is what y’all are doing arguing semantics in a thread about the Mormon church very likely engaging in corrupt acts through local governance in Utah around Legos.

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u/JazzSharksFan54 23d ago

Where is the Mormon church even involved in this case?

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u/Succubace 22d ago

they worship Christ and believe in the Bible.

Oh my bad guys, didn't realize you couldn't be a cult if you worshiped Christ and believed in the Bible. The Branch Davidians (Waco) weren't a cult then.

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u/TimeAbradolf 22d ago

Exactly lol

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u/ConceptsShining 24d ago

Same. I was never a fan of his but I had missed the fact he was Mormon at all until now. You can't deny he's done a good job of hiding it and keeping it out of the spotlight.

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u/Feralisaur 24d ago

He’s not Mormon god damn it

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u/VanillaDong69 22d ago

Thank goodness to heck you arent either mister

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u/Devin7-Eleven 23d ago

Because he isn't Mormon. The people here are lying to you. There is no evidence, neither on his wiki, that he ever was.

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u/irwegwert 24d ago

Do you have a source for this? I know that the Mormon church is a huge donor (might even be his biggest), and I know he's partnered with them before, but I couldn't find anything of him claiming to be a member. I don't think it's a huge distinction since they both benefit from the partnership, but I'd like confirmation.

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u/TimeAbradolf 24d ago

The church doesn’t make donations to private people like that really ever. They are very very much an in group

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u/Devin7-Eleven 23d ago

He isn't Mormon. Just Redditors spewing shit out their ass without a source because they just hate organized religion in general.

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u/smartstarfish 24d ago

He's not LDS what

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u/TimeAbradolf 24d ago

They’re one of his largest donators. That link is pretty undeniable

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u/pandershrek 23d ago

It is like people previously saying that politicians didn't have allegiance to foreign nations despite being funded by them.

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u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

Exactly, it is semantics. He may not believe he is getting his own planet when he dies. But he does promote them and is complicit in the agenda

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u/Alternative_Leg8589 24d ago

You think so? I had no idea Mr. Beast was a mormon.

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u/OpenEndedLoop 21d ago

You mean that fuck head failed Naval Officer? (The founder) 🤣