Yes, Chris Tyson is still with Mrbeast, rumours of Mrbeast firing Chris have surfaced. But, it’s all a hoax.
A YouTuber “ItsOwen” with three million subscribers, uploaded a video, claiming and deducing that Chris Tyson is fired by Mrbeast and is not going to show up again, at least with Mrbeast. But, this is fake news as Chris is a childhood friend of Jimmy “Mrbeast” Donaldson, who has been making videos with Jimmy since they were in high school.
If you are a follower of Mrbeast’s YouTube content, then you would definitely know Chris Tyson, who often appears in his videos. In fact Chris is one of Jimmy’s childhood friends, who helped him in making videos on YouTube and this led to making all types of challenges, the infamous Squid Game Recreation, several games like Minecraft etc. and the list goes on.
Childhood friends of Mrbeast including Chris Tyson, Karl Jacobs, Chandler Hallow and Nolan Hansen collectively make The Beast Gang. As per reports, Chris Tyson is the oldest of them all and started Mrbeast channel with Jimmy back in 2012.
Who is Chris Tyson?
Christopher Tyson is a 26 year old YouTuber from North Carolina, with 2.7 million followers on Instagram. He is a famed content creator, social media influencer and self-employed businessman. Though, commonly known as a member of Mrbeart’s Beast Gang. Chris Tyson works full-time with Jimmy. However, Chris made two other YouTube channels i.e. “ChrisO2” & “Tysonboy34_”.
He went to the University of North Carolina to complete his graduation, where he met Katie Farquhar, who will eventually be his wife. Chris and Jimmy A.K.A Mrbeast started their channel on YouTube in 2012 titled “Mrbeast”. They are childhood friends and Chris can be seen in most of their videos as a co-host.
Chris’s coincidence with his name?
During the 94th Academy Awards, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock for making a joke on Will Smith’s wife, Jada, who is suffering from a hair condition called Alopecia. The Internet was moved and an astronomical amount of posts and tweets were constantly uploaded against Chris Rock. However, plenty of users didn’t know his official handle, thus they tagged Chris Tyson instead.
Although, Chris took it humorously and posted “My mentions are full of boomers tagging @Chris Rock now.” Meanwhile, other content creators shared a plethora of memes either on the Chris Rock situation or Chris Tysons’. Tyson tried to inform people about this situation which was rather embarrassing in the eyes of few, but how successful his attempt was is not known.
Is Chris Tyson Transphobic, Homophobic and Rascist?
Some of the twitter users took screenshots of his tweets which he posted back in 2017 and used them as an evidence against Chris being a Transphobic, Homophobic and Racist. Tyson went against Islam through his posts back in 2017, now deleted, after the Ariana Grande concert.
He posted, “between what happened at the Ariana Grande concert and whats going on in the philippines, why the fuck do we even take islam serious? It's an old ass backwards religion that hates anything different and treats women like shit. Why the fuck do poepl still accept it”
Such tweets shocked his islamic fans, who followed Mrbeast’s videos and immediately went against Chris for posting such defamations against their religion and some even abused him.
People constantly slammed him for multitude of insensitive posts back in 2017, Chris deleted all of them and understanding his mistake, he published an official apology to all the minorities he hurt.
He said, "I wanted to address some things that have been brought to light from my past, and apologise. I will not make any excuses because I am completely responsible for my actions and words. I want to start off by saying that the person I was when I was making these edgy jokes and tweets years ago is not the person I am today."
FAQ
Q. What is the Networth of Chris Tyson?
A. It is estimated to be $4-5 million, which is reasonable as he works with the largest content creators on YouTube i.e. Mrbeast.
Q. Did Chris Tyson ever get fired?
A. No, there have been no such reports confirming about him being fired or excommunicated from Mrbeast Channel. Though, there have been claims that his controversial tweets brought “fire” upon him, but not “fired”.
Q. What happened after Chris Tyson’s controversial tweet apology?
A. Chris Tyson posted another apology regarding this now-deleted 2017 post, and he later deactivated his original account. He is now using his alternate account and no such official comments have come, regarding the controversy, by any member of the Mrbeast’s channel.
Q. What is the name of Chris’s son?
A. Tucker Stephen Tyson was born on 18th June 2020. Katie Farquhar and Chris Tyson have a proper high school romance story, where they eventually got married. However, their whereabouts after the backlash is not very much known.
