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MrBeast Picked A Fight With the Wrong Comedian

YouTube giant and junk-food entrepreneur Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson objected to “The Rolling Stones” placing comedian Caleb Hearon above him on a list of 2025’s top influencers, but he quickly walked back that criticism once he ran into the she/they shooters.

Ever since social media companies began automatically curating users’ feeds, the internet has become such an amalgam of occasionally overlapping algorithms that no two TikTok users are seeing the same content pop up on a daily basis. As such, there are entire million-member communities of terminally online comedy fans who can scroll on Twitter for weeks without seeing so much as a mention of massively successful mass-appeal content creators like Donaldson — that is, until MrBeast decides to poke the bear for absolutely no good reason.

Anthony Michael Hall Says Chevy Chase Bullied Him on the Set of ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’

Going through puberty as a child actor in Hollywood is hard enough without Clark Griswold commenting on your body in front of the entire crew.

At this stage in 81-year-old entertainment legend Chevy Chase’s career, almost all of Chase’s public appearances are part of some reunion, or a nostalgia screening, or a Midwestern convention talk-back about the classic comedy movies he made during his peak. Specifically, the National Lampoon’s Vacation film series has been Chase's cash cow, as Gen X and Millennial comedy lovers collectively decided at some point in the last 20 years that we like the controversial, combative and cantankerous comedy great best when he’s behind the wheel of the Wagon Queen Family Truckster.

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