YouTuber MrBeast normalizing trans agenda to kids

Last spring, YouTuber Chris Tyson revealed he was “transitioning” to become a woman, leaving his wife and three-year-old son. He has worked with Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast on his eponymous YouTube channel, since Donaldson’s first forays into YouTube about a decade ago. The channel is now the second most-subscribed channel on the platform, with videos often having hundreds of millions of views.

MrBeast is consistently cited as one of the top YouTube influencers in the world, and kids follow this channel obsessively - almost everyone under the age of 20 will know who he is.

YouTube and social media videos and influencers are a profoundly more intimate space than TV and Hollywood ever was, with the ability for consumers to comment on videos and speak with the 'stars' directly online – ssomething that makes people more invested in this kind of celebrity, whereas fans of 90s sitcoms could only identify with one of the characters or imitate a hairstyle.

Online influencers are just that – they’re influencers. They’re called that for a reason. They wield enormous social and cultural clout, often on young, and easily influenced, children.

On Twitter/X, Tyson has defended the alleged benefits of hormone replacement therapy for gender “transitions” – a post shared over 1,400 times. Donaldson, meanwhile, has voiced his support for Tyson’s decision and continues to allow Tyson in his videos, and Tyson himself has posted pictures of his “progress” on social media.

The LGBT movement, further, has taken notice Tyson’s “transition,” with LGBT publications marking a year since Tyson has been on hormone therapy.

There is no way that we are going to win the culture war at home if we are not monitoring the culture that is consumed in our home. If we are not careful, thousands of parents will, and have, discovered, that their child’s identity has been shaped by the online content they consume; be that pornography, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and more.

Do you know what your children are doing in the online world?

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