BBC News Review MrBeast被卷入诉讼

From BBC Learning English. This is learning English from the news, our bookcast about the news headlines.

In this program, world's biggest Youtuba MR beast facing lawsuit.

Hello, I'm Phil, and I'm Georgey.

In this program, we look at one big news story

and the vocabulary in

the headlines that will help you understand it.

You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode, as well as a worksheet, on our website, bbc learning english dot com.

So let's hear more about this story.

Mr. Beast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, runs the largest youtube channel in the world, and now he's producing a reality show with a $5000000 prize together with Amazon.

It's called Beast Games. Serious allegations have emerged around the conditions for contestants, and MR Beast Company has been served with a lawsuit, and that means a legal demand for compensation.

This lawsuit mentions allegations of exposing people to sexual harassment, being misleading about the chances of winning, and restricting access to food and medication.

Yep. And I have a headline here that talks about this lawsuit, and is from The Indian Express.

Mr. Beast faces legal challenge lawsuit alleges toxic environments on set.

And that headline again, mr. Beast faces legal challenge lawsuit alleges toxic environment onset.

And that's from the Indian Express.

And this is talking about the lawsuit over the conditions on beast games.

That's Mr Beast reality show. And Phil, we're looking at the word toxic.

Can you tell us more? Yes.

Toxic literally means poisonous er to a situation or a relationship that could cause harm.

Yes. This story reports allegations that there was a culture of sexism and misogyny that's hatred of women on set.

An environment with this culture would often be described as toxic, because it can cause harm.

A bit like a poison. Yes, we often use toxic to talk about harmful relationships, whether that's in a family, a romantic relationship or a workplace.

So an office where people are stressed, they're being bullied, or facing discrimination, could be described as a toxic environment or a toxic workplace.

We've had toxic likely to cause harm over time.

So as an example, he had such a toxic relationship with his paren'ts that he had to leave home.

This is learning English from the news.

Our progress about the news headlines.

Today, we're talking about the lawsuit filed against Mr Beast by contestants in his Beast Games series.

So this year, mr. beast's youtube channel became the channel with the highest number of subscribers on the platform.

It currently has over 317000000 followers.

Now, to put that in context, only three countries in the world have a higher number of inhabitants.

His fame has mainly come through youtube and social media platforms, but he's about to go mainstream on TV.

Our next headline is related to that.

Now. This one is from stuff.

It's based in New Zealand, and it says, on the cusp of mainstream stardom, mr.

Beast is being sued. So that headline again, on the CUSP of mainstream stardom, mr.

Beast is being sued. And that is from stuff in New Zealand.

Now, this headline is about the lawsuit, but we're looking at the expression on the CUSP.

Mr. Beast is described as being on the CUSP of mainstream stardom.

Mainstream start means being a star that most people know about, like if you're on TV or in films.

Now, being on the CUSP means being on the edge of or about to change.

And CUSP is an old fashioned word that means dividing line, and we don't usually use it outside of this expression on the cusp.

So someone could be on the cusp of greatness if they're about to achieve something, or you could be on the cusp of an agreement if you're close to working something out.

Exactly. So the writer of this headline thinks that Mr.

Beast is about to become the kind of big star that everyone knows.

He's on the CUSP of mainstream fame.

So we had on the cusp of which means on the edge of, E.G.

developments in AI. Mean, we could be on the cost of a bright future, or a really scary one.

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We're talking about allegations made against Mr Beasts production company.

Many of the articles about this lawsuit focus

on Mr. beast's reputation, with some people referring to him as the nicest man on the Internet.

Now, the author of our next headline, which is from an opinion piece, is not so sure.

So yes, we have this headline from Jezebel, which is an American website.

Shocker. Turns out mr Beast is the

worst.

Okay, let's hear that again. Shocker.

Turns out Mr. Beast is the worst.

And that's from Jezebel. So this headline is from an opinion piece by a writer who is not surprised that Mr.

Beast is facing accusations like this.

Now, it's got shocker in the headline.

Now, phil isn't that usually for something surprising, something that's a shock?

Well, yes, but here it's being used sarcastically or ironically, where we use a word to mean exactly the opposite of what it means.

Yes, and in speech, we often use exaggerated intonation to show that were being sarcastic.

So, E.G. Oh, it's raining again in London.

What a shocker. Now, actually, that's not a shock, because it rains a lot in London.

Okay? And there's another use of the word shocker as well.

We can use it to talk about a bad experience that we've had.

Um? So, E.G. this weekend, I had an absolute shocker.

My car broke down, I lost my keys, and then the kids got ill.

It was terrible. It was a shocker of a weekend.

Yep. Feel that really does sound like a shocker.

We had shocker, which, if you're being sarcastic, means not surprising, e.g.

Shocker. She's late for the meeting again.

That's it for this episode of Learning English from The News.

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