The Mexican authorities threatened legal action this week over a video featuring the YouTube sensation MrBeast at ancient Maya ruins, suggesting that a production company had violated an agreement for filming at the site.
The video, titled “I Explored 2,000 Year Old Ancient Temples,” was posted online on Saturday and had been viewed more than 60 million times by the end of the week.
“Everything you guys are seeing now the Mayans didn’t want us to see,” says a voice during the first moments of the 15-minute clip. “Nobody gets to go where we’re going.”
They were going to the Maya city of Chichén Itzá, an archaeological site on the Yucatán Peninsula with structures more than 1,000 years old, that is considered a wonder of the world and is visited every year by two million tourists.
Visitors are welcome to roam the ruins of city with a few conditions, including no climbing on the pyramids or staying past nightfall.
The video featuring MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, shows him inside of ruins, at an archaeological site at night and clambering up a pyramid, with a voice saying, “I’m climbing these stairs like a dog.” Toward the end of the video, he displays candy under his Feastables brand, which he calls “the only Mayan-approved snack on the planet.”
