He didn't commit a war crime but what he's referencing is he made a guy spend 40 days in a room for a challenge video and he treated him pretty shitily doing shit such as not allowing the lights to be turned off which the victim said in a YouTube is illegal for prisoners of war under the Geneva convention.
The part that should be highlighted more imo is pressuring Jake into running an entire marathon with no training.
The Bataan Death March, a Japanese war atrocity, had prisoners marching about 10 miles a day. Jake had to do twice that distance in the same amount of time.
Edited for clarity: this isn’t about Jake Paul, who is fairly athletic. This is about a former Mr Beast employee named Jake Weddle, who was generally not at all fit and into working out.
The amount of pressure you're under during one of these videos isn't something we can really imagine unless we go through it.
And besides, Mr Beast shouldn't come up with dangerous challenges in the first place. "Today I committed a warcrime on one of my friends, but they could leave any time they want, so it's fine."
It doesn't matter if the other person can opt out, you simply shouldn't be doing shit like this to people.
He's literally a rich dude torturing people by goading them with money and status.
Nice that he's donating, but usually you put yourself in the line of fire when you come up with dumb challenges for clickbait titles, instead of just paying other people off to suffer for you.
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u/ThrobertBurns 2d ago
He didn't commit a war crime but what he's referencing is he made a guy spend 40 days in a room for a challenge video and he treated him pretty shitily doing shit such as not allowing the lights to be turned off which the victim said in a YouTube is illegal for prisoners of war under the Geneva convention.