The watch-outs

Buried, sealed in a box, shut in a room with a clock running: this format does not shout at a child, it presses on them. We watched ten of them, and two cleared our review.

MrBeast Gaming clears our review far more often than the main channel does, and that gets read as gentler. By sensory load, it mostly isn't. Here's which published pages run hottest, and which three actually settle.

One rule, one prize, and whoever holds out longest takes the money. We measured thirteen of them and shelved one.

MrBeast's biggest hits are also, by our measurements, his most intense: fast cuts, loud mixes and barely a pause. These are the videos most likely to be asked for by name, so here's what to expect before they start.

This is the MrBeast video children ask for by name. The violence of the series it copies is gone. The elimination tension is not, and that is what our review measured.

Buried, sealed, stranded or timed by the hour, survival is the single MrBeast format we're asked about most. The two real issues aren't the same worry, and they don't land on the same age group.

A small set of MrBeast videos stood out in our review for a different reason than pure intensity: sound with no lead-in, a picture too busy to settle on, or tension that never quite lets up. This is about temperament, not a problem to fix.

In a lot of these videos the giveaway is not a moment inside the story, it is the story. Here is where that sell runs heaviest.

Forty-two uploads in our review were held back for one reason: the format is something a child could restage without knowing what made it safe. The risk isn't the screen time, it's the encore.