Making deals with prominent online personalities can be a blessing and a curse, and Amazon seems to be experiencing the negative repercussions of its high-stakes decision. In March, Amazon (AMZN) announced a deal with MrBeast to produce a reality TV competition series that would be streamed on Prime Video,

At least five game show contestants were "shamelessly exploited" and subjected to "unreasonable, unsafe" working conditions on Amazon Prime's "Beast Games,” a California civil action said this week.

The lawsuit alleges that MrBeast's production company, Off One's Base LLC, failed to pay overtime and minimum wages, didn't provide the contestants with uninterrupted meal breaks and rest breaks, didn't provide workers compensation benefits, and exposed them to "dangerous circumstances and conditions as a condition of their employment."