Best known to be MrBeast‘s sidekick, renowned content creator Chris Tyson has garnered a huge fanbase for himself over the years. However, ever since Tyson revealed about starting Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), several fans have turned on him. Not only that, but the 26-year-old has also managed to be at the receiving end of strong transphobic reactions.
The North Carolina native has become the talk of the town, but not for reasons he’d have expected to be. At one point, Tyson had temporarily shut his Twitter down to keep the online trolls and critics at bay. Even his close pal, MrBeast came to his rescue on occasions more than once, but even that hasn’t seemed to help keep any heat off Chris.
In light of his controversial announcement, it has become easy for the fans to overlook the fact that Chris has fathered a boy not too long ago. Along with Katie Tyson, he has a son named Tucker. Unfortunately, the couple has chosen to part ways after his HRT revelation. However, it is worth noting that the duo still follows each other on social media.
The news has spread so far and wife, that even renowned political commentator Ben Shapiro made it a point to talk about Chris on his show. Shapiro has famously been a part of several transgenderism debates in the past. The 39-year-old recently posted a new episode of his show, The Ben Shapiro Show on YouTube.
Shapiro spoke in great detail about the possibilities of Tyson ruining MrBeast’s show’s dynamic, should the former choose to stick around.
Ben Shapiro lashes out at Chris Tyson
Ben Shapiro opened up the subject of the latest ordeal surrounding Chris by speaking about his relationship with MrBeast. MrBeast, who goes by his real name of Jimmy Donaldson, has been a close pal with Tyson way before any of the fame kicked in. Soon after, he touched on Tyson‘s controversial life decision.
Shapiro said, “These are the things that really matter in our life, not our relationships with other people. Not in Chris Tyson’s case, the relationship that he has with his wife and his kid. He has a wife and he has a kid.”
“Let me just express something to you right now,” he continued. “If you decide that your feelings of comfort and gender identity are more important than your relationship with your wife and your child, you’re being selfish. This is true for everyone.”
“It’s incredibly damaging by telling yourself a lie that you’re a member of the opposite sex and meanwhile completely destroying presumably your relationship with your wife and also completely confusing your own child. That is actually a bad thing to do,” concluded Shapiro.
The 39-year-old said that after Tyson’s controversial decision, there have since been real ramifications for how MrBeast’s show looks and feels. He also pointed out that the interaction between Jimmy and Chris looked “extremely awkward” in their most recent appearance online.
Ben also brought up the number of rising dislikes on MrBeast’s latest videos, crediting solely Tyson for the same. He ended the segment by talking about the different possibilities should Jimmy decide to show the door to Chris in the near future.