When you have a wife and family, it goes without saying that you have obligations.
Rich, poor, famous, anonymous — you have to provide a stable environment for your family. That doesn’t just include a roof over their heads and toys in the nursery. The number of sacrifices a husband needs to make for his spouse and their offspring is too high to count, but suffice it to say that one gains freedom and meaning in providing love, comfort, and stability — in part by dying to the libertine “freedom” of absolute, unentangled individuality our woke culture promotes.
All of that feels like a fuddy-duddy, boomer-tastic introduction to an examination of an internet personality who’s the sidekick to a YouTube influencer dubbed MrBeast who has 144 million subscribers.
Chris Tyson is the Robin to MrBeast’s Batman. According to the U.K.’s Daily Mail, Beast’s real name is Jimmy Donaldson, and he traffics in rubbish 15-ish-minute videos with titles such as “I Paid A Real Assassin To Try To Kill Me” and “I Ate A $70,000 Golden Pizza.” (Yes, that will garner you 144 million subscribers and serious media clout in 2023. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.)
It’s unclear how much of that assassin-dodging or golden-pizza-eating money Tyson is taking home for himself, but I would assume he isn’t doing poorly. His Twitter account for his MrBeast activity has more than a million followers, and his personal account “for everything not MrBeast related” has over 250,000 followers.
And, from all accounts, life looked happy on the outside for him. The Daily Mail reported that he and his wife, Katie, married in 2018 and had a 2-year-old son named Tucker.
And then things started changing. First, Tyson came out as bisexual in 2020. Then, last week, the 26-year-old sidekick announced he’d begun hormone replacement therapy and was using “any pronouns” to refer to himself.
HRT, AND IT’S ONLY BEEN 2 MONTHS
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— Chris (@chris) April 6, 2023
He defended his decision on his personal account. “Informed consent HRT saved my and many other’s lives,” he tweeted. “The hurdles gnc [gender non-conforming] people have to jump through to get life-saving gender-affirming healthcare in a 1st world country is wild to me. Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies.”
Oli London — a British influencer known for first attempting to transition to a Korean woman and then detransitioning, blasting the transgender movement in the process — noted that Tyson “went from masculine family man with a 2-year-old son to transgender and pumped full of estrogen hormones all in the space of a few months.”
YouTuber Chris Tyson went from masculine family man with a 2-year-old son to transgender and pumped full of estrogen hormones all in the space of a few months.
