Ava[3] Kris Tyson (born: July 1, 1996 ), formerly known as Kris Tyson, and before that, Chris Tyson, is an American YouTube celebrity who is mainly known for being the former co-host and a former on-screen member for the MrBeast YouTube channel, having appeared in most of the videos alongside Jimmy. She has participated in many of the challenges and prank videos MrBeast makes and is apart of the cast that is consistently on the channel. She is also the main host of the channel "Beast Reacts" (formerly BeastHacks).
Personality
Ava Kris Tyson initially described herself as a "country boy" (before her transition), growing up as a Boy Scout (although, it is argued that she was also a cub scout). In the survival challenges, she was constantly the one who did the most work. She is also a big fan of cartoons, which means she is sometimes really childish. She is also the most vulgar of the group and arguably the most "useful" person during their survival challenges. She shares some characteristics with Karl (such as competitiveness, the like for cartoons, humor,...), which makes them really close to each other.
Biography
Ava Kris Tyson grew up in North Carolina and still lives there today. She and Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast) created their channel in 2012.
The MrBeast YouTube channel has amassed an impressive following, with over 163 million subscribers as of June 2023. Outside of YouTube, she maintains an active presence on Instagram, where she has accumulated a substantial following of 2.6 million users.[4]
In March 2022, she has shown her nails getting done on their Twitter account, which marks as some of the first evidence of them publicizing her feminine traits.[5] On 28 March 2023, she revealed that them and Katie have been split for just over a year.[6]
In the video "$1 vs $500,000 Plane Ticket!", fans noticed and commented on her changed appearance from previous videos. She confirmed on a quote tweet about her appearance that she has been taking hormone replacement therapy since about two months before the video's upload. She would later clarify that she would temporarily go by any pronouns and voiced support for informed consensual HRT for gender non-conforming individuals.[7] Though, she did also state the identity label she would go for was yet to be revealed.[8]
Sometime in early June, Ava Kris Tyson updated her Snapchat where her pronouns would go be she/her.[9] In later 2023, she changed her bio to update her name, pronouns and show solidarity for Palestinians.[10] In 2024, she updated her name from Kris Tyson to Ava Kris Tyson.
Career
Ava Kris Tyson has two inactive YouTube channels: one which doesn't have videos that is called KrisO2 and the other with videos called Tysonboy34_. She is known for appearing in many videos alongside Jimmy Donaldson AKA MrBeast, such as insane challenge videos, videos where they spend money, etc. She also has a twitch channel KrisO2_ where she usually stream with others.
In later April 2023, there have been rumors suggesting that she was fired from the main crew, such as the fact that she did not appear in the screenshots of three members of the Beast Gang filming in Paris[11], as of late April 2023, she appeared in the Beast Reacts video "Funniest Animals On The Internet!", suggesting that she is still part of the crew.[12] In the end, she responded that she wanted to spend more time with her son, debunking the rumors of her being fired.[13] She then re-appeared in the video Ages 1 - 100 Fight For $500000, for example, further proving she was not fired. Though in later videos in 2024, she would appear less frequently.
Controversy
Shädman Files
Kris Tyson encountered renewed controversy following a period of intense public scrutiny related to her transition. It was discovered that she had obtained and shared images of artwork by the online artist Shädman (who is an artist that gained controversy by drawing inappropriate lolicon hentai art), as well as purchasing an inappropriate art depiction of a young female character, drawn by Shädman.[14]
She has also faced severe backlash for several other predatory tweets, some of which depicted support for Shadman, as well as grooming minors in a private Discord server, most notably Lava, who at first denied the allegations, but then took a look at the Discord logs and then later condemn Ava's actions.[15]
Response
On July 23, 2024, Kris Tyson addressed the allegations via a series of tweets, stating her departure from the MrBeast crew to prioritize her family and mental health. She denied any involvement in grooming and issued an apology for her past actions.[16]
The following day, Jimmy Donaldson announced on Twitter that he would be seeking an independent third-party investigation into Kris Tyson’s conduct and removing her from the MrBeast brand, therefore no longer making her part of the videos or being an on-crew screen member anymore.[17]
Family
- Note: this list of family members only reveals the known family members.
- Ava's Grandmother (maternal grandmother who appeared in Beast Reacts in a try not to laugh challenge)
- Ava's Mother (mother who appeared in Beast Reacts in a try not to laugh challenge)
- Ava's Dad (father)
- Sarah Tyson (sister)
- Tucker Tyson (son)
Trivia
- Given that she was essentially best friends with Karl, and with Jake the Viking quitting the MrBeast crew, Karl went from a cameraman to an on-screen member. She loves making videos with Karl.
- Before getting fired, she was the only member out of the six main MrBeast crew members (others being Jimmy, Chandler, Karl, Nolan, and Tareq) that is a parent.
- Ava Kris Tyson was one of the two, out of the main MrBeast crew members, who is not born in 1998 the other is Tareq.
- She had 2.5 million followers on their "chris_thememegod" Instagram account.
- She attended the 2019 Super Bowl in Atlanta, Georgia.
- She is reportedly MrBeast's very first subscriber as told by Jimmy.
- She owns 4 cats.
- She was the only person in the 6 main MrBeast crew members to be transgender.
- She owns a white Tesla model 3.[18]
- Since Tareq joined the on-screen crew, Ava became the second oldest of the crew, before getting fired.
- She has two old accounts that are inactive, one was called Chris, which the name was still using the former name for unknown reasons, and another older version called Tysonboy34_, which was at the time that she was the first one subscribed to MrBeast.
References
- ↑ https://www.snapchat.com/add/tysonnosyt
- ↑ https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/social-relevance/youtuber-kris-tyson-who-came-out-as-transgender-shares-transformation-pictures-610854.html
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20240305185234/https://twitter.com/kristyson_
- ↑ https://mrbeastburger.io/who-is-chris-tyson/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/chris/status/1504066470971592704?lang=en
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Kristhealtgod/status/1640577051999588352
- ↑ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/chris-tyson-mrbeast-sidekick-gender-journey-1234710767/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/chris/status/1644346263985442816
- ↑ https://www.snapchat.com/add/tysonnosyt
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20240305185234/https://twitter.com/kristyson_
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CrTigVdrTXE/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=b9f3c6b8-8214-4b07-9c27-47b36b0014e5
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70dS-T5p07U
- ↑ https://twitter.com/nojumper/status/1653115194921586688
- ↑ https://reduxx.info/mr-beast-sidekick-posted-artwork-from-disgraced-artist-known-for-animated-child-porn/
- ↑ https://x.com/LavaGS/status/1815429514614501500
- ↑ https://x.com/kristyson_/status/1815832898089423260
- ↑ https://x.com/MrBeast/status/1816299504674464113
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDYFFYUzxQQ?t=62s