The top YouTube personality has been handcuffed by law enforcement officials.
The internet sensation MrBeast, alternatively known as Jimmy Donaldson, was the target of a revenge scheme plotted by fellow YouTube celebrity Airrack in response to a prank MrBeast executed on him over a year ago.
Donaldson orchestrated a prank on Airrack, whose real name is Eric Decker, by influencing one of Airrack’s producers to feign resignation and a transfer to MrBeast’s team.
Upon the revelation of the prank, Decker was heartbroken and resolved to orchestrate a larger prank in response.
As a part of his plan, he sought the assistance of the New York City Police Department to persuade Donaldson he was about to be jailed.
The strategy didn’t succeed in New York City, leading them to try again in MrBeast’s hometown in North Carolina.
A video has already amassed over 646,000 views merely hours after being uploaded to YouTube, featuring police officers stopping the YouTuber’s Tesla.
They claimed the reason was the car’s tinted windows, but subsequently informed him there was a warrant for his arrest for ‘communicating threats’.
Footage shows the YouTuber exiting his Tesla and subsequently being handcuffed by law enforcement officials.
At first, MrBeast appeared to find the entire situation amusing.
However, when he was assisted into the rear of the police car and asked if he had been threatened recently, Donaldson fell silent and refrained from responding to the officer.
Following his placement in a detention cell, the 25-year-old content creator was denied food and water and kept waiting for a substantial duration.
MrBeast was then informed he was allowed one phone call.
However, MrBeast was unaware that the police officers had dialed Airrack’s number.
It was then disclosed to the fellow YouTuber that the arrest had been a jest from the beginning.
“I got somebody here I was told that needs to talk to you,” is heard from the police officer over the phone.
Footage shows the phone being handed over to MrBeast for the big revelation.
Airrack inquired: “Hey, do you need anything?”
In response, MrBeast stated that he needed his attorney.
Airrack responded: “James said he is talking to Alan (MrBeast’s lawyer) right now.”
Airrack mentioned that he had a message from his ‘Alan’, and instructed Donaldson to gaze into the law enforcement officer’s body camera.
“Alan says to look into the police officer’s body cam and say ‘I just got ‘got’ on Get Got,” Airrack announced.
At that point, it dawned on MrBeast that the entire situation was a prank.
MrBeast, with a grin on his face, later conceded in the video that he had initially believed the prank was genuine.
“I was like, this might be a prank. I was like, this is a lot of resources for a prank. When I got in there I was like, okay wait. Maybe this isn’t a prank,” he expressed.
So, the lines have been drawn in this ongoing prank battle.
The future developments remain a mystery.
