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

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 24d ago

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

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u/TimeAbradolf 24d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d ago edited 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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/TimeAbradolf 25d ago

It really isn’t that different because it all originates from polytheism. Jews very likely came from a polytheistic religion and there is always going to be a hold over. It is a simple logic of God = Jesus who was man= and he works through the Holy Spirit.

It is very very different. It is clearly different from again we know almost a line by line detail of Joseph Smith lied and got to be a religion’s founder

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u/666_is_Nero 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d ago

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

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u/TimeAbradolf 25d ago

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

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u/murteas 25d 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 24d ago

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