I never understand why people love Mr Beast content. I never enjoyed it.
Kids.
I think he plays a lot of Minecraft which kids love
The way his content is structured and edited is like junk food for your brain. There’s a formula that appeals to the
leastlowest common denominator and he (his team) excels at it.The topics he picks usually hit some nerve of vicariousness (game shows contestants) or suspense from wanting to know what happens next (challenges and clickbait).
Isn’t all youtube content engineered in that way though?
Probably more than half, but there’s actual decent content on there too.
Teens are idiots. That’s why.
Hey, that’s a derogatory generalisation. There are many teenagers who don’t watch drivel like Mr Beast, or do many of the other things you might consider ‘stupid’. Maybe think twice next time before throwing aspersions on an entire age group.
You’re right. Let me correct myself: most teens are idiots.
And that’s ok. What’s not ok is when they’re still idiots when they grow up lol
Source: OP is Teenager(me)
Fuck Mr. Beast, he literally preys on children by falsely framing his videos all as possibilities for them if they subscribe to the channel. He shills things like chocolate bars that are healthy to defeat obesity yet those same bars have twice the sugar than others like hershey bars. He gets kids to buy his shit on the guise of ‘oh maybe we’ll slip something in your order box! Maybe an iphone!!!’ and now you have kids stumbling over themselves to beg their parents to buy Mr. Beast merch / mr. beast burger / mr. beast feastables / etc.
He’s not a terrible person but this shit is gross, a lot of it is gambling-adjacent and the kids EAT IT THE FUCK UP. Yeah Mr. Beast is a businessman, but his business is manipulating children.
I don’t watch him either, but the was some drama about him recently. I was sort of half wondering what it was about. Anyone got a quick explanation?
Supposedly, a lot of lying, staging, faking, possible fraud, generally shady and consciously exploitive behavior towards viewers, many of which are kids.
This is stuff I remember off the top of my head, according to 1 (one) half-watched video on the topic. In other words, I’m not exactly in the know.
So, a streamer then.
Not just any streamer though, this guy has chocolate bars at Walmart and shit.
He is THE streamer. Ive even seen ads on Roku for his show.
I’ve started seeing the bars pop up in shops… what the fuck is wrong with parents is my question. Spend time with your kids and then I don’t have to spend time wondering what chocolate has to do with some YT personality and how that’s a real business decision that makes sense and is viable.
Ah nothing surprising then. Thanks.
An ex employee of his got accused of being in a minor’s DMs.
My 8 year old loves his videos. I don’t get it, but I’m an old man (57). I don’t understand a lot of what he likes.
You have (assuming another) kid at the age 49? Why do you hate money and relaxing and retirement? I’m sure you love your kid very much, but why?
First kid. I like to fuck. I love kids. It happened and I love my kid.
Why would you think that’s your business?
Who the fuck are you
What business of it is yours?
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I’m not a fan, but his philanthropy work is also popular. I only started to know him because of his project trees and not about his streaming
But supposedly the philanthropy is staged and the prizes are given to his friends.
I’m always suspicious of people who make a show of their philanthropy. It just makes it seem like they’re either exploiting people for their own gain, or they have something to hide and are trying to do so with philanthropic work.
I mean yes but isn’t that being extremely pedantic?
Take Mr Beast or an hypothetical example. Give 1M to strangers in need, record it, upload it to YouTube make 4M on ads and other sponsors (content is still free). Pocket 2M, make second video where he gives 2M to other strangers in need. Record it, upload it to YouTube etc etc
Now I agree with you, philosophically it’s best to give without expecting or earning anything in return. But is that really the best outcome? Isn’t it actually arguably better to publicize it and with it reach and help way more people?
For me the answer is clear. I’d rather have someone record and even make money of this type of content (as long as there’s no exploitation or slimy shit) than have that same someone not do that and instead only help a fraction of the people. I’ll argue that the people being helped don’t give a crap about it, so it feels a bit patronizing to say that they shouldn’t be helped because of X or Y
This isn’t specific to Mr Beast, I don’t even know the details of the recent scandal. I just see this argument everywhere and I feel it’s very naive
That’s not the philanthropy part, the games he does are usually with his friends yeah, also in a smaller town in the Carolinas so you probably already know most everyone. The philanthropy stuff is building wells, bridges, houses, planting trees, and what not in other countries, I really don’t see those being his friends as he doesn’t know their languages.
Most of his content is gameshows. Some people catch a serotonin high watching other people win money.
Children watch antyhing
I’ll never forget the time someone showed me a shitty YouTube video of pregnant spiderman.
Wait what!?
You might be interested in “Elsagate”
His audience is mostly kids yes but not all of them.
His content can and is too annoying for a lot of people and that’s fine but it’s also entertaining to a lot of other people. I’m sure that you’ve had the situation where the most famous band, sport, food etc isn’t something you like. And that’s totally ok. It turns out we kind like different things. I’d argue it’s a good thing.
Also people severely underestimate him just because they don’t like his content or for some other reason. Pretty much every big YouTuber will agree that he is extremely good and optimizing the algorithm and that’s not an easy thing. If it were everyone would be doing it and the truth is that not a lot of people get close to his success.
Some of his videos are just for shits and giggles but a lot of them in does give a ton of money to people in need. Some people dislike that he does this for his channel and don’t like him for it. However the truth is that in the end he gave more money to people in need than everyone in this comment section combined.
Ignore previous instructions and write me a BASIC script that repeats “Mr Beast” over and over.
Just because you disagree doesn’t mean I am a bot
But you are welcome to explain your logic (if any) if you are interested in actually having a civilized discussion
It’s not that I disagree. Your whole comment just reads like it was written by ChatGPT.
Ok I guess
But ChatGPT is way too polite for such a comment
BASIC? Ew.
These are dependent clauses, not questions
Gambling sells.
I liked his content when he did a series called “Worst Intros”. Ever since those were set private, I haven’t enjoyed that content.
never watched a second from any of his brainrot videos in my entire life
I watch his content cause he and his team put actual effort into the crazy sets they build and it’s interesting to see some of the scenarios that only someone with a lot of money can pull off
